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
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 182010
Again a rather straggly breakfast but we were out at the horses just after 09:00. It was extremely cold this morning – about -15! We were off at 09:50 and very quickly ended up driving the horses up the wrong road in the middle of Camurac. Having managed to turn them around, we got them [...]
