photo trip 2010 - Pyrenees circumnavigation!

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this is the route of my holiday - well, it's a mega stock photo trip really - but don't tell the family - anyone been anywhere on the map - anything to look out for? special features? attractions? festivals? Going first 3 weeks July. Markers are overnight stops.

 
Contact ShawWellPete, he has a villa in Begur, directly east of Girona, between E & F.

I have been to Girona and the Costa Brava a few times but mainly on the coast and skiing to Andorra.
 
ok - thanks - I'll look into all of that.
 
I live just North of Beziers. I haven't actually been to all of the places that you are going to, but some of my recommendations if you didn't already have them planned in would be.

1. Central Gerona is quite picturesque.
2. Dali's house in the pretty Port Lligat near Figueres (there is also a Dali museum in Figueres) but if you only do one I would recommend his house in Port Lligat.
3. Collioure - very pretty (but touristy) seaside town near Banyuls Sur Mer.
4. Petit Train Jaune west of Perpignan.
5. La Cite Carcassonne - great to look at and photograph from a distance and the outer walls, but inside the walls is stuffed full of tourists and tourist shops. Can't imagine what it will be like in July as I've only been there in April and it was packed with tourists then!
6. Numerous Cathar castles in the Carcassonne area.
7. Reserve Africaine de Sigean (near Sigean) if your into that kind of thing. Quite pricey at 26 Euros per adult though...
8. The centre of Narbonne is also worth a look.
9. I also spent some time around Lourdes and the Parc National des Pyrenees many years ago and remember it being stunning.

Are you planning to be at the running of the bulls in Pamplona? I hope to go this year!

Hope you have a good holiday
Simon.
 
Thanks for all that info - very useful. No, I'm going to give the bulls a miss. Will be in carcassonne for two nights now - incl full day on 14th - so hoping for some interesting Bastille day celebrations. I was in Honfleur, Normandy last year on 14th and it was interesting!
 
I agree with jerry, you seem to be missing the most spectacular parts of the Pyrenees, you're going to be travelling around it with them just out one window in the distance instead of actually in the Pyrenees.

However I suggest Ainsa and Boltana instead of Huesca. I spent a month there a couple of summers back and the scenery is spectacular. I also wonder how much you are going to see and be able to do with your schedule.
 
18th - 22nd July the Tour de France is in the Pyrenees. One to catch or avoid?
www.letour.com
 
thanks for that - I'll take a look.
 
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