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Looking north from the GR10, from below the mountain of Pic de Canou.
The friendly donkey, called "Little Pea" in french, who wished he was a human.
Gorgeous weather atop the Coll de Pal at 2295m, as Anouk views the mountains.
Hiking on FLAT back country roads through the wide valleys gave us a small opportunity to soak up the beauty of the scenery before the next big ascent.
Anouk and Nathan celebrate our arrival at Col de Coma D'Anyells, and Nathan attempts to encourage Anouk that the worst is now over (whoops, wrong!).
The high country of the eastern Pyrenees still blanketed in snow.
A hiker's breakfast in Merens Les Val - a croissant, a pan-a-chocolate, and a banana. We hope our relocation to the eastern end of the Pyrenees will allow us to avoid the challenging weather buffeting the Central Pyrenees.
A view of the mountains over which we hiked in bad weather.
The "Path of the Masts" is a path cut out of a sheer cliff-face in the 1700's to provide a logging access route to the forests above the gorge - look closely for the people on the path for an indication of scale.
We recuperate from day one of the GR10 in the village of Estaut, and discover that the previous day's bad weather that we walked 8 hours through resulted in destructive flooding in the adjacent valley.
The mountain weather gives us a taste of the extremities it can produce - and we are reminded again, like Nepal, that hiking early in the season can be fraught with hardship.
Entering the central Pyrenees on a deceptively beautiful day, with the Cirque de Lescun a glowing centrepiece.
A french picnic, bought fresh from the markets, including the quarter of that infamous loaf of bread İ almost bought whole!
Who's this weird bunch prowling the cobblestones?
After more sightseeing than she can bear, Anouk breaks into a spontaneous rendition of Flamenco dancing.
Amazing tilework and dramatic blue walls and doors were a feature of the pretty town of Chefchouen, in the Rif mountains of Morocco. Here, in this place, Anouk finds an architectural complement for her favourite travel shirt.
A camel safari in the Saharan dunes... kitsch - yes, but lots of fun too. Anouk astounds by her amazing ability to mimic the camel sounds, which include some explosive digestive sounds!
A farewell look from Anouk as she is lead away by the Berber camel trader I sold her to for two camels - a great price considering her age and teeth condition I'm told!
Our first taste of the Moroccan taste sensations - mint tea with traditional sweet biscuits, complemented by the ingenious riad design of the central courtyard.
Following the blizzard, the previously dry Manang Valley is blanketed by a foot of snow.
The first of two snow blizzards strike us at the upper reaches of the Manang Valley, forces us to return to Manang to wait it out.
After arriving in rustic Manang and experiencing it without snow, the Himalayan weather gives us a dose of winter - the idyllic-looking scene belies the intense cold and the inadequacy of dung-burning heaters.
Yaks graze in pasture beneath the Annapurna Range.
The high altitude natural lake above Manang is fringed with ice.
A thankful reprieve from the snow as we arrive in the high altitude Upper Manang Valley.