17 June 2009 - Bolquere Aire

We left Nefiach (after Dean washed the van down) and headed for our next destination. It was our first journey into the Pyrenees and we were lucky to have such good weather to enable us to enjoy the spectacular scenery.

Photographs do it no justice whatsoever, but we made the effort!

The Aire we were heading for had disappeared under a load of new ski chalets being built. We carried on further into the village and spotted another couple of motorhomes parked up, so we followed suit. Having checked with the French chap who had been there for three days, we decided we wouldn't be moved on and got settled.

We'd been to Carrefour so sorted out all our goodies.

Bolquere was like a ghost town as it is a ski-resort and thus out of season. It was strange seeing the pistes without snow, the chair lifts just swinging there...

This shows the bottom where three pistes meet, we think of varying levels of difficulty.

As you can see from the picture below, we had a wonderful view out of the motorhome and all for free!

As the afternoon wore on we kept hearing bells, so Dean went out to investigate and came across a herd of cows complete with bells hanging from their collars. We'd already seen goats with bells in Clermont-Ferrand (lost the photos) but not cows. Anyone who knows Angela will know why she did not accompany Dean on his investigations...

During the evening we spotted a few birds flying around. A Linnet, A Bullfinch that Dean filmed on the camcorder eating the seeds from a Dandelion and a bird that is a scarce visitor in the UK, a Black Redstart.