Oloron-Sainte-Marie, France

After phoning our host Pascal to inform him we had arrived alive in Oloron he quickly came and picked us up whilst we had stood looking like abandoned travellers at the side of the road. We followed the river in the car finally pulling over to what looked ...

... very picturesque towns and cities of the South West with fairly unprounceable names - Salies de Bearn, Sauvreterre de Bearn and Oloron Ste Marie.  We also took a drive up to the border with Spain through country that looked like Frodo and Gollum would ...