Backpacks, Boots And Baguettes

Backpacks, Boots And Baguettes
A Walk In The Pyrenees
TG529439 Paperback 272pp 2005

High in the Pyrenees, a full day's hike from any trappings of civilisation,
is no place for a human to be - unless you are searching for the time of
your life.

This is the roof of a mountain range that stretches from the Atlantic to the
Mediterranean coasts, and provides some of hte most breathtakingly beautiful
landscape to be found in Europe. It is also the place for hikers to get
soaked, roasted, or scared out of their wits - not by the endangered brown
bear, but by rights-of-way such as the precipitous Chemin de la Mature,
hacked out of a cliff by 18th-century convicts and still used in the
21st-century to punish anyone fearful of heights, such as TV presenter Simon
Calder.

Luckily, his friend and walking companion Mick Webb has a complementary
range of phobias, such as being confined with 54 hikers, and their socks, in
a refuge two miles above sea level. Calder and Webb narrate an eventful and
humorous travelogue. With their backpacks, boots, and baguettes, they
explore the region: meeting the people, savoring the views - and the wines -
and very quickly learn that la loi de l'emmerdement maximum means 'sod's
law' in French.

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