Blogging from the Pyrenees
Phil & Anna have been living in the Pyrenees for over 17 years and love the culture, wildlife and mountains here. We run Hike Pyrenees, which organises guided and self guided hiking holidays in the Pyrenees and other areas of Spain. Our blog tells about our adventures hiking, snowshoeing and skiing in the Pyrenees and we hope to explain some of the fascinating flora, fauna and history of the area. We hope you enjoy reading!
French Pyrenees Walking holiday: Following the Pioneers of Pyreneism
Our new French Pyrenees holiday took us on a journey, following in the footsteps of the first Pyreneists, exploring the giant cirques of Gavarnie, Troumouse, Vignemale and up the famous Col du Tourmalet.
Car Rental in Zaragoza for the Pyrenees
Zaragoza is the nearest major city to the Aragonese Pyrenees and one of the easiest places to hire a car from if you’re coming to the Pyrenees. There are two main places to rent cars from – Delicias train station or the airport. Both have National/Atesa, Europcar and…
Hiking to an iced up Ibon de Piedrafita
Ibon de Piedrafita is in a beautiful spot under the cliffs of the Sierra de Partacua and yesterday I headed up there with Berute – a friend from the village. In summer this is a really popular walk with guests on our walking holidays but I’d never seen it…
Favourite photos of 2012
2012’s drawing to a close – it’s been a great year here in the Pyrenees and I thought it would be a good time to show some of our favourite photo’s from this summer – there’s lot’s of photos of our guests so see if you can…
Vulture feeding station planned for the Valle de Tena
La Cuniacha – the wild animal park in Piedrafita – yesterday announced that they will be opening a vulture feeding station next spring. This is fantastic news and will give Hike Pyrenees guests even more opportunities to see Lammergeier, griffon vultures,…
First winter outing the season
Snow finally arrived to the Pyrenees last week so we took advantage of some great weather Saturday to get out onto the snow for the first time this season. Rafa and I headed up to the border at Portalet which is a great place for snow-shoeing, skiing and generally…
The Charles Rennie Mackintosh trail
A new interprative trail has opened in the eastern French Pyrenees celebrating the watercolours of the Scottish architect/artist Charles Rennie Mackintosh. The trail features 30 reproductions of Mackintosh’s work placed where he painted them from allowing you to…
Zaragoza flights now on sale
Ryan Air flights from London Stansted to Zaragoza are now on sale. Our transfers meet the flights on Sundays with flight times as follows: Outbound journey Depart Stansted: 16.45 Arrive Zaragoza: 19.55 Return journey Depart Zaragoza: 20.20 Arrive Stansted: 21.35…
Legend of the creation of the Pyrenees
There are several versions of the legend of Hercules forming of the Pyrenees. The one I’ve read recently involved Atlas and Hercules – two of the most powerful gods. Atlas lived happily in his city of Atlantis. He had a peacful and placid caracter….
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Discover how the Pyrenean range was formed
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Bearded vulture
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