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25.07.08 Friday.
Cauterets Walk Valley de Lutour.
A good night with no more thunderstorms, good if a bit cloudy today, we have another “training walk” just to keep the legs in trim - up on one of the local minibuses at 50cents each to La Railliere. A motley collection of elderly ?locals got on and were greeted personally by the driver and no payments made, we were delivered to the stop at the road side and they drove another 50 yards to the door of the Centre for Rheumatics that is the only other building in the place except for the shops and Cafes. We still don’t know if we gatecrashed the hospital run for the day, but no one seemed to mind. A gentle amble up a delightful valley with several trout fishermen in action I think, in common with a lot of the area there is some fine trout fishing to be had, (note for DP).
We ambled back to Cauterets to catch the Friday market and got seven trout, several texts having ensured that Karl and family plus Ralph were expecting to be with us by late afternoon. We also got a piece of strong local cheese made from a mix of sheep and cow milk, the sheep only, Brebis was not really flavoured enough, and they do insist that you try before you buy. Also got some useful info about the opening of refuges, guardians and food availability that should help cross the High Pyrenees using some of the Haute Route Pyrenee long distance path.
Finally doing some washing as it looks a good drying afternoon.
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