Lunch at the Waterfall

After Thursday's walk we took some time to recover: we both had extremely sore calf muscles and were having difficulty walking upright. That meant that on Friday we led a very sedentary life, not straying much further than the boulangerie or a restaurant for dinner.

Yesterday we decided to test how our legs were recovering with a walk to lunch of about three kilometres along a fairly level track.

We found an excellently inexpensive restaurant, la Cascade, at Raillere. We ordered the 13€ menu main and dessert, and a half litre of rosé. My main was the "assiette des cyclistes" shown above, and Susan had an excellent burger. We both had Myrtilles and Fromage Blanc for dessert.

The view from the restaurant

After lunch we took a slightly more challenging route back to Cauterets, passing a number of waterfalls. This is the restaurant we ate at from the bridge over the Cascade du Lutour.

The restaurant is the building on the left, photographed from the bridge over the cascade

 The path was very picturesque, with the sort of views that might make Lord Byron faint with joy.

When we reached Cauterets we were amazed to find that we were only 30 metres from the church - but looking down on its spire. It then took another 15 minutes of "lacets" (switchbacks) to get down to the town. This is a very vertical area!

Cauterets, from not very far away!