Tour to Southern France and the Pyrenees

[MacZurbi]

Hello together,

in this thread, I will show you some impressions of our tour in July 2014 to Southern France and the Pyrenees.

Hope, you enjoy this photos

Day #1: Zurich-Grenoble (280 miles)

We started in the early morning at home and spend some time on the Motorway to feed some miles in Switzerland. We already know a lot of our home county.... From Grenoble we driven the last 80 miles on the french national roads to reach the city of Grenoble, the gate to the french alpes.

The rest of the day we spent to explore the old town and run up to the bastion by aerial tramway to see the panorama

https://i.imgur.com/ceOMg6p.png

and later an relax dinner open air in the old town.

Day #2: Grenoble-Avignon (140 miles)

As for the afternoon some heavy rains have been forecasted, we spent much time on the Motorways again. So we reached Avignon short after lunch time and had time to stay in the town and make some sightseeing.
Visit of the Palace of Pope who we didn't got into - the entrance fee of 12,50 € pP was to much....

https://i.imgur.com/jqcY3pT.png

and this was the weather at the world-famous Pont d'Avignon:

https://i.imgur.com/cY90byM.png

after a heavy shower in the town:

https://i.imgur.com/Qn5iqK5.png

More pictures will follow....

Greetings from Zurich,
Fredy
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Greetings from Zurich/Switzerland
Enjoy your life - it is always to short
Actual bike: BMW R1200 GS Liquid cooled

[MacZurbi]

Day #3: Avignon to Lézignan-Corbières (150 miles)

Our first sightseeing point was the impressive old romanian aqueduct Pont du Gard nearby Nimes. But be aware of parking and entrance fees. If you come with 2 M/C and no pillion, you have to pay € 12.00 each for parking/entrance. If you come with 1 M/C and pillion (2persons) you also pay only € 12.00 fee.

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panoramic view after a 15 minute climb up in bike clothes with up to 30° temperature

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after this, we raised the region called Camargue with the wild horses and make stop in the city of Aigues-Mortes (engl. Death Waters) a small town with an stony wall:

https://i.imgur.com/pFogulT.png

After coffee break and drinking a lot of cold we drove the coastline of the Mediterranean Sea and came to Lézignan-Corbières a small town in the triangulum of

Carcassonne (20 miles W)
Beziers (35 miles NE)
Perpignan (55 miles S)

There we stayed for 3 nights.

Day #4: Daytrip at the Mediterranean Coast down to spanish border (180 miles)

First we planned to make a relaxing day at the beach of the Mediterranean Sea, but the wind was so heavy (up to 70 mph) so we lef this idea an idea and cruised the coastline down to spanish bordertown Port-Bou.

On the way we spend some time to walk and see in saline lake and let footprints:

https://i.imgur.com/NCKZnSv.png

Then stopping at the impressive coastline:

https://i.imgur.com/3Tvc0IV.png

and came home tired in the evening after cruising small roads in the French Pyrenees - Attention: check for enough gas, there are not so many gas-stations in the hills.

More pictures and informations will follow....

Greetings from Zurich/Switzerland
Fredy
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Greetings from Zurich/Switzerland
Enjoy your life - it is always to short
Actual bike: BMW R1200 GS Liquid cooled

[Supermoto_Fan]

Will be going a similar way come august ...

Blast to Epernay, > Vogues mountains > Grenoble > Neapolian route down to Monaco and then across the coast to Toulon.
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Yamaha MT-09 - Triple powerrrr

[MacZurbi]

Day #5: Sightseeing in Carcassonne (60 miles)

We drove to the middle age city of Carcassonne and spent the whole day there to look, drink coffee, watch peoples passing

The doubled city wall is more than 1.5 miles long (each) and there are 52 towers!

https://i.imgur.com/HivlKmT.png

View from the castle:

https://i.imgur.com/UHQkoPT.png

the way back to our lodging in Lézignan-Corbières we made a detour viewing the small village of Minerve:

https://i.imgur.com/dAIf26A.png

and having a lock to the gorge of the River Cesse:

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Day #6: Lézignan-Corbières to Andorra (180 miles)

Main stop on this leg was the Château de Quéribus, a national historique monument, a mountain top stronghold and the last refugium of the cathars, a religious minority in the 13th century hunted by the catholic church in the name of the inqusition:

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we have climb up again about 15 minutes in the heat of 30° and no shadows to have a short break and cooling .

But then, we looked down to our M/C

https://i.imgur.com/oJvABru.png

and a panoramic view into the Pyrenees:

https://i.imgur.com/hQHEmMu.png

More pictures will follow

Greetings,
Fredy
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Greetings from Zurich/Switzerland
Enjoy your life - it is always to short
Actual bike: BMW R1200 GS Liquid cooled

[MacZurbi]

Day #7: Recreational day in Andorra

For this day the weather forcast was not the best, so we made a recreational day in the capital of this small country.
It is interesting if you want to do shopping - don't forget it is a trendy destination for visitors from Spain and France.

We saw the famous clock from Salvador Dali:

https://i.imgur.com/bk1umuC.png

looked down to this illumination of lights in man-shape:

https://i.imgur.com/pPFdVyn.png

and have a look to the parliament of Andorra:

https://i.imgur.com/yBkqQ6h.png


Day #8: From Andorra to Albi (200 miles)

Our way back to home was first a sidetrip to the Ordino Pass and had a panoramic view down to the main valley:

https://i.imgur.com/cNjYMGe.png

on the bottom of the picture you see the pass road we drived down.

From there we went back to France and started our journey home with some passes in the Pyrenees (Port d'Envalira/Col de Puymorens) - Gorges de L'Aude - passed Carcassonne again and arrived in the early evening in the medieval city of Albi with the imposing cathedral:

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Days #9-11: From Albi to Home (800 miles)

Due to the weather forecast again, we speedily driven from Albi with two overnight stops in Montelimar and Annecy back to Zurich.
On the way we passed through the Gorges du Tarn (picture will follow).

If you want to have some more informations to this tour, don't hesitate to contact me....

Greetings,
Fredy
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Greetings from Zurich/Switzerland
Enjoy your life - it is always to short
Actual bike: BMW R1200 GS Liquid cooled

[nastyaheyyo]

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