We reached Argelès-Gazost in mid-September, by then already well into the foothills of the Pyrenees. We stopped with our motorhome in the dedicated parking area beside the supermarket on Route du Stade. The individual spaces were surprisingly narrow and short for a...
After Mont-de-Marsan we continued towards the foothills of the Pyrenees and reached Crouseilles, a tiny village surrounded almost completely by vineyards. Here we stopped with the motorhome at the small municipal area below the Château de Crouseilles. It was one of...
Our reason for going to Simacourbe was very specific: we wanted to see a real Carmelite convent. We had been looking for a functioning enclosed religious community in this part of the Pyrenees-Atlantiques, and in this tiny village we found the Carmel Notre-Dame de la...
Lourdes was one of the places we had particularly wanted to see during this part of our journey through south-western France. We arrived by motorhome while travelling with our dog, which immediately made the visit slightly more complicated because ordinary dogs are...
Mont-de-Marsan was another of the practical stops that naturally become part of a long journey by motorhome. We had not planned a proper sightseeing visit to the city; what we needed that day was simply to do some shopping and restock the motorhome before continuing...
