Seeing out my 60th year in Style

Susan and I are in Cauterets, in the Pyrenees. It's a 19th Century spa town with older roots, as it is on one of the old roads into Spain.

Yesterday we went for a walk down a hill, We caught the cable car and ski-lift up to Cirque du Lys (2300 metres) and walked back down to Cauterets (970 metres) in 30C plus heat. It was tiring but interesting; a walk of 12km, downhill on a combination of sheep paths and shale scree roads. Being so high, there was no shade, so we were pretty rung out by the end of it.

You can follow the path back to where we started, centre right on the horizon

 

We lunched at lac d'Ilheou

I can only imagine how disheartening the walk up must be

 

the Cascade du Ilheou