The trip to the Pyrenees Part Un

My lovely wife (pictured here with her toothbrush on the roof garden at the hotel) has always wanted to return to Andorra. She spent an Easter vacation with a family outside Pau when she was younger and they took her skiing there. The journey up from Perpignan passed up through the mountains and then across a plateau until you enter Andorra via the Pas de la Casa. Now when you've been brought up in the Rhondda, surrounded by mountains, escaping out over the Bwlch to Bridgend and Porthcawl or over the Rhigos to Brecon, you get used to driving round hairpin bends. So driving up and down7% gradients comes as second nature. But unfortunately I was driving a Black Corsa 1.2 - bit of a minger really. The scenery was stunning. The other fascinating sight was that all along the route was a railway line occasionally traversing the gorge. Along it ran the Petit Train Jeune de Pyrenness. There's one thing about the French, they do love their little novelties. And this is one of them. They say mountain people are strange..... well if you have to travel on a cattle wagon along a long slither of track up to a plateau then so be it. But hey, why should we feel sorry for these people.. their choice. This little train takes even longer than the car and those open carriages.... you could sh*t yourself going over those viaducts and comfort? where's the buffet car? Part Deux will follow soon.