Five days’ walking from the Atlantic
Changing valleys once or even twice a day, it snakes up minor passes but shuns the highest peaks of the range, passing through countryside which is sometimes rugged, sometimes bucolic, but rarely banal. At the end of the day it makes a detour to sniff out a meal and a bed.
I walked the Pyrenean Way (GR10) over a period of four years and discovered a new passion, which I hope to share on this site -- Steve Cracknell
Second edition of If you only walk long enough: exploring the Pyrenees
A updated edition was published in 2012, now with 30 photos. This edition is avaliable at lulu.com and Amazon. There is also a Kindle version and an ebook.
Les Pyrénées tout en marchant sur le GR10
The French edition was published by Éditions Cairn in March 2012.
Running with the pack
Dog sledding on the plateau de Beille
An extract from my book If You Only Walk Long Enough was featured in the January 2011 edition of theFrenchPaper.
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“Imagine sitting on the comfortable seat of a fairy-tale Christmas sleigh. The nodding reindeer glide across the gentle hills, only the quiet swish of the parting snow disturbing the winter calm. A red-and-white fur coat keeps out the chill.
No. It’s not like that.
Imagine, instead, a top of the range Harley Davidson motorbike. Imagine also – I know that this is will be difficult – that this machine, for which you have paid thousands of pounds, has two major faults. The throttle is permanently stuck down; and the handlebars won’t turn. Oh, and there is no seat either...”
More extracts -- Details and reviews. Buy the book at Amazon.co.uk.
