POT LUCK LUNCH ON REPUBLIC DAY

Okay - this post is jinxed! This it the 4th or 5th time I have tried to get it uploaded. We had a great time on Republic Day at a Pot luck Lunch in our village. In spite of our hastily gathered and inadequate contributuion we were met with hospitality food, wine, armagnac and songs! It was a great day! Watch again because I hope to upload the video of a nonagenerian lady singing local Basque songs.

CIRQUE DE GARVANIE AND THE LAST GLACIERS

Isn’t it beautiful!
This trip was part of my French Immersion course.
The Cirque de Garvanie is a vast natural amphitheatre surrounded by mountains and cataracts. Roland with his great sword cut a great chip off the ridge in the fight to prevent the Moors invasion of France.

There was a grand spectacle being staged in the valley to which we were invited. Sadly I had the flu and we had to miss it.
From further west and higher up the Col des Tentes it is possible to see this glacier. ‘Those who know’ the “They’s of wisdom’ say the Pyreneen glaciers will have disappeared in 30 years time.