A little taste of the Pyrénées

I have been helping out in the vines full time this week and have not had time to update the much neglected blog! It seems a blog is a full time job in and of itself! I am on my lunch break right now and thought I'd take 5 minutes to post a pic or two before heading back outside to get rid of the Americans. What?! No, I haven't turned against my compatriots, it turns out an American is a technical term relating to the vine. More on this later in another post!

We had a four-day weekend last weekend and headed south to the Pyrénées, just east of the Pays Basque, for 2 full days of glorious hiking in the cirque de Lescun and a night of tapas further south in Pamplona. I'll share more next week, but for now here's a few images to tide you over...

We emerged from the fog to this view of the cirque de Lescun (def: a bowl-shaped, steep-walled mountain basin carved by glaciation, often containing a small, round lake):



Day 2. More magnificent view of the snow-capped mountains:



Sunday lunch. Tapas in Pamplona just 2 1/2 hours southwest of Lescun:


This weekend we're off to Gaillac for Biocybèle, the largest organic fair in southwestern France...

Lots more to come. Bon weekend!