Girona to Perpignan 99 km
Girona is a nice town, worth a return 'weekend away' visit. As I was leaving the hostel, the ever-cheerful woman on the front desk gave me directions to the 'ugly lion' and insisted that I go and kiss it. Legend has it that if you (in her words) 'kiss the arse of the ugly lion' then you will one day return to Girona. She must have given it a good long kiss because she came back and is still here 5 years later.
Crossing the Pyrenees into France was a non-event on the N11, hardly any climbing at all. The steepest bit was going up the main street of the border town of Perthus. The town was packed, bus loads of visitors, all there for what seemed to be duty -free shopping. I don't understand how you can have a duty free zone between two European countries??
The rest of the day was uneventful, nothing worth getting the camera out for.
I camped in the dark very near the TGV (or AVE as they are called in Spain). Actually, I'd been told quite firmly several times in Girona that I'm not in Spain, I'm in Catalunya. The desire for independence here seems even stronger than in Galicia.
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Crossing the Pyrenees into France was a non-event on the N11, hardly any climbing at all. The steepest bit was going up the main street of the border town of Perthus. The town was packed, bus loads of visitors, all there for what seemed to be duty -free shopping. I don't understand how you can have a duty free zone between two European countries??
The rest of the day was uneventful, nothing worth getting the camera out for.
I camped in the dark very near the TGV (or AVE as they are called in Spain). Actually, I'd been told quite firmly several times in Girona that I'm not in Spain, I'm in Catalunya. The desire for independence here seems even stronger than in Galicia.
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