I’m suddenly feeling rather deflated. Probably no wonder. I am sitting in the train on my way from Ax les Thermes to Toulouse. Nathy left early with Marie-Line and Bastienne then about 11:00 Stéphanie, David, Laura, Françoise, Charlotte, Guillaume, Cécile and Sylvan went with Jean to Ax – Jean then carried on to Toulouse with [...]
Dec 242011
Dec 242011
The last day on the road. A good start with a little sun turned rapidly to more rain and showers after passing the first col It was fairly slow and slippery a lot of the way. Nathy and Athos fell; the ground was so slippery, Athos had no footing. After lunch, it stopped raining but [...]
Dec 242011
Despite being drier this morning, we decided to make the day shorter. We would miss crossing the Plateau de Sault – not in it full winter glory with the snow but probably still worthwhile – and have a late lunch in Puivert. I swapped horses this morning and rode Pilou – the absolute front runner [...]
Dec 242011
What a foul day It has rained almost the whole day – and not just light rain, but heavy “wet” rain that soaks through just about everything. My waterproof thermal boots were full of water at the end of the afternoon. My leather gloves had sopped up all the water they could. And I think [...]
Dec 242011
The weather has thrown everything at us! We left this morning around 10:00 in snow. By the time we got to the top of the Col de Puymorens we had driving hail; visibility was down to a few metres. We were in trot most of the way up and pretty well all of the way [...]
