Tag: catalonia
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old salt and new salt
Like ancient fortifications, old salt prospection sites are as varied and ingenious as local conditions made them.
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summer solstice and the pyrenees
Since time unknown celebrate the inhabitants of Isil the night of the summer solstice in a rather particular manner.
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old paths, dams and canoes at last
Forgotten paths run deep in the canyon covered by water now. Paths of old that climbed dangerously towards the Pyrenees.
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a walk round the lake and the pyrenees
The lowest lake in the Park Nacional d’Aigues Tortes i Estany de Sant Maurici bathed under the sun of the last days of Spring gives a view to the snowed passes we left behind a few days before.
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the pyrenees and a seven days hike
The range shows nonetheless a harsher past with U-shaped glacier valleys and round ground granite bedrocks where now shy flowers root among their tiny crevasses.