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Here I describe my run-walk outing with a local companion into the spectacular hills above Laval.

Mr D, a neighbour of ours, generously offered to show me some of the harder-to-find tracks up into the hills above Laval. I had already done a fair amount of exploring myself but had not found the route I guessed would be there. I sought a track, or at least a marked route, connecting Laval with Quillan in the Pyrenees in southern France. Laval is not far from Quillan as the crow flies and my guess was that there would be in the hills an alternative to the 6 km on the flat road route. Continue reading A hill route between Laval and Quillan

This morning I went up part of the Sentier Cathare (the Cathar Way) above Ginoles village. Ginoles is only a few km from Quillan but I drove that part to save time. Gorgeous summer morning: already quite hot in the sun when I was out between 9am and 10.30am. The Quillan area has many beautiful features but, for me, the cliffs above Ginoles are the most beautiful of them all. I would never get tired of that view.

Cliffs above Ginoles
Cliffs above Ginoles

Continue reading Exploring part of the Sentier Cathare above Ginoles