Holiday Dates 2011

Pyrenees Mountain Adventure has published the dates for the Summer Walking Holidays it will offer in 2011. The dates are:

July 13 – 20
July 27 - August 3                               
August 10 - 17                                     
August 24 - 31                                     
September 28 - October 5


For more information about the holidays and how to book: www.pyreneesmountainadventure.com

Other Dates For Your Diary:

9th January. National Snowshoe Day.
2nd February.  Festival of the Bear, Prats de Mollo.
April 15th – 23rd. Religious Music Festival, Perpignan.
June. Transhumance Festival, Pyrenees wide. Cows, sheep and horses take to the roads and tracks to climb to the high summer pastures.
23rd June Midsummer Day/Feast of St John. Fire lit on the summit of Pic Canigou.
Last Sunday in June. Smugglers walk Osséja.
Penultimate Sunday in July. Sheep dog trails in Osséja.
31st July - 7th August. Vernet Les Bains Festival. Includes the Vernet - Canigou summit - Vernet walk (6th August) and race (7th August). 34km, +4268m height gain.
3rd week in August. Merens Horse Fair, Bouan, Ariege.
15/16th October. Grape Harvest Festival, Banyuls sur Mer.
5th November. Horse Fair, Puigcerda.

“Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.” John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)