Walk close to home

It may look from recent blog entries like we have been doing not much apart from but cooking and walking, but we feel to have had a very productive week. We have got several quotes lined up as well as some actual dates for starting some work, moved a lot of boxes upstairs and sorted out registering the animals which has been hanging over us for some time. So perhaps we should have been doing work on the house, but the nice coolish and sunny weather was too much to resist so we went for a walk.

We have explored a bit around the house and had some walks in the woods between us and Bagnère de Bigorre. We had been told that there is a way of walking on good tracks from here to the hills we see opposite us behind Labassère (which is the village with the church you might have noticed in pictures of our view). As a start to exploring this we walked to the top of our land and then through the neighbors fields on to a marked track and headed up the valley. We ended up walking a loop through the woods and countryside above the house then to a place called Labassère Debat (which is probably the closest village to us but is no more than a small collection of houses) and back down the (very quiet) road to our house.