Carrying on from yesterday’s post about Pau, I’ve thought of 10 more tips for families visiting this lovely town. First of all you’ll need some food, either to enjoy on the spot or to take home with you. Specialist Food and drink includes Jurancon wine, fromage des Pyrenees, delicious patisserie and chocolate! We found this…
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A walk around Pau, south-west France
Pau: “Porte des Pyrenees” The French town of Pau has a prime position just to the north of the Pyrenees, 50 km from Spain and 100 km from the Atlantic coast (Biarritz and St Jean de Luz). The Catholic pilgrimage town of Lourdes is only 30 km away. Pau is the capital of the Pyrenees-Atlantiques…
The Pyrenean Wildlife Park – Parc Animalier des Pyrénées
The Parc Animalier is one of the top wildlife parks in France, and we were fortunate to have a sunny day trip there with our friend Jacqueline during our visit to Pau in October half term 2016. It’s in the foothills of the Pyrenees, about 10 minutes’ drive south from Lourdes, at a village called Argelès-Gazost…
Autumn sun in Biarritz
At October half-term we spent some happy days with our friend Jacqueline in the town of Pau, southwest France, a lovely area worthy of a lot of blogposts. It’s a cold and murky day in London so I’ve decided to start with a post about our sunny day in the seaside resort of Biarritz. There aren’t any…
Heidelberg – Philosophers’ Way and Bismarck Tower: a walk in nature and a spooky relic
If you’re in the Heidelberg area it’s worth looking at the weather forecast and saving a few hours of your best weather for this lovely walk. It runs along the side of the Heiligenberg (saints’ mountain), parallel to the Altstadt on the other side of the Neckar at an elevation which offers beautiful views. First…
Heidelberg – short break in a historic university town
Back in January I said, “Let’s be organized this year and book our summer holiday really early”. We decided on Germany – or Austria, or Switzerland – and talked about all the places we’d like to explore. When it’s January it’s hard to imagine summer and we didn’t reach a decision. We had a week’s…
Heidelberg Castle, Baden-Wuertemberg, Southwest Germany
The first thing we noticed when we arrived in the beautiful town of Heidelberg was the enormous castle, or Schloss. It’s set against the forest on the Koenigstuhl hill and towers over the Neckar River and the Altstadt, or Old Town. We were spending a few days in Heidelberg at the end of the school…
Dartmoor in Spring: English bluebells and German conversations
We’ve just spent the May half-term week on Dartmoor, enjoying the sunshine while it poured with rain back home in London. I think the month of May is the best time of year to go to Devon, because of the hedgerows full of wild flowers and the carpets of English bluebells. Funny that as a…
