Off the bike; still adventuring


 After a relaxing week in Tossa de Mar we (me, Noel and our daughters Claire and Margo) took off for France where we visited Carcassone.


While heavily touristed, it's still worth a visit if you're in the area.  The driving tour was so different than biking.  In one day we visited a small town with a big church (lots of those around), found an organic winery, stopped in Lourdes and climbed 40km to a spectacular national pack, all in air conditioned comfort :-)!


We ended up in Gavarnie at the edge of the Parc national des Pyrénées with a view of the tallest waterfall in Europe (top photo) from our hotel.  I've wondered about the mountain hut hiking in Europe for years and it didn't disappoint.





After this highlight it was time to cross back into Spain where we went in four different directions:  Margo to the Baltics, Claire to Seattle and her new job, Noel to Austria for a bike tour from Salzburg to Grado on the Adriatic, and my return to Boulder from Barcelona.  I had enough time to swing by La Sagrada Familia 38 years after my last time.  It's scheduled to be fully completed in 7 years...

Thanks for following along and hi from Boulder!



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