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19/7/2018 at 8:27am
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Been to the Alps twice (summer)like it a lot. Very pretty, dramatic in parts, do like to go full on tourist mode sometimes and must admit the Alps lives up to expectations.
Been to the Pyrenees several times, passed thru and stopped there and it just does not seem to cut it like the Alps.It just does not have the same appeal, it seems like a watered down version of the Alps.
Obviously we have not been everywhere in both these areas, is there anywhere in the Pyrenees where you go wow!!!
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19/7/2018 at 8:40am
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If you are Catholic and ill, you might like Lourdes.
Generally the Pyrennees is popular because it does not do "full-on tourist"
Birds, walking and views tend to be its speciality.
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Ordesa y Monte Perdido National Park on the Spanish side. Wow !
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Andorra is always worth a visit for the tax free shopping. We usually do Pas de la Casa from the French side or St Julia de Loria from the Spanish side.
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24/7/2018 at 8:39am
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"If you are Catholic and ill, you might like Lourdes"
The above might be an attempt at humour, dunno, perhaps it is wishful thinking or just not thinking.
But thanks for the other replies, been to Andorra once years ago, awful traffic, perhaps we went on the wrong day.
Like Pyrenees Natura, looks great and at the moment is the favourite.
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Spent a week in the Pyrenees on the motorbike. The cols are superb, as is the cable car to the Pic du Midi. Getting "buzzed" by vultures on the way up to the Col du Tourmalet was pretty memorable. And so was avoiding the free-range horses and cattle that wander freely over the roads.
I thought the Pyrenees were much more accessible and less glammed up than the Alps. Its an area for pottering about the small towns and villages too. They have far fewer apartment blocks than the Alps, where the ski towns can look like clones of each other.
Lourdes is an aquired taste - i'm a Catholic but hated it.
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I've been to some of the Cathar/Templar/Holy Grail legend places like Rennes Le Chateau and Montsegur. If you don't mind an uphill walk, Montsegur is wonderful. Rennes Le Chateau is worth a visit if you have a fascination with the legend that surrounds it.
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Naughty! SG ...
I found Lourdes to be awful ... the commercialisation is appalling. If the historical JC were to arrive there to-day, he'd have the whip out immediately.
However ... 'the faithful' may well have a very different viewpoint.
Love the Pyrenees, which changes character from east to west ... some of the national parks (on the spanish side) are fabulous ... towns like Pau and Navarenx on the West end are interesting ... the little trains (east and west) provide spectacular trips ... different from the Alps, but, as Alan says, much less glammed up, and raw natural beauty in abundance ...
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