The bordermarkers of the Pyrenees : all my trips
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- 10 july
2005 -
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Trip-summary
Part of a 6-days solo-hike from Puigcerda to Prats-de-Mollo along the borderline. A roundtrip from Puigcerda, exploring - in a sort of semi-circle - bordermarkers 495-467
Weather: cloudy in the morning, later on more and more sunny. Walking: ± 9 hours.
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| My hotel in Puigcerda where I arrived yesterdag. It is cloudy this morning, hiding the mountains in the distance.
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I decide not to backpack into the mountains but to book a second night
in the hotel and undertake a daytrip around Puigcerda.
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Bm491, on the road to Palau-de-Cerdagne.
Sunday is perfect for this trip because it involved a lot of trespassing of meadows and fields. It's is nice and quiet in the morning.
From this bm, I leave the road and go south to find bm492-495
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Bm492
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Bm493
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| Bm495, so I missed |
| bm494, a bit back in the same meadow.
Back to bm491 |
| Bm490, then a detour via Palau-de-Cerdagne to |
| Bm489 |
| Bm488 |
| Bm487
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| Bm486
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| A "hunting restricted" sign on the border, a bordermarker in his own right. |
| Bm485
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| Bm484
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| Bm483
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| Bm482fr, a metal plate in the tarmac on the french side of the river Rahur.
Along the Rahur there are double bordermarkers. |
| The water level in the Rahur is low and I can wade through it. On the other side:
Bm482es |
| Bm481fr, another plate in the road. |
| Bm481es, I find this one after long and covertly searching in the garden of an empty villa. It's hidden under bush
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| Bm481es in close-up |
| Bm480, both markers in the middle of the bridge |
| I continue on the Spanish bank of the river:
Bm479es |
| Bm478es |
| Bm477, both markers are on the parapets of this old bridge over the Rahur. |
| Bm477south |
| Bm477north, you can see the new bridge over the Rahur.
These bordermarkers are the last of the double bm's along the Rahur. |
| An overview of both bridges, to the right the old one. |
| This is the new bridge. Notice the smal bordermarkers on both sides. |
| This is one of them. There's no numbering. |
| Looking forward in the direction of the borderline. The borderline bends off the river. |
| Bm475, so I missed 476 but from this one I could find |
| Bm476, a bit back.
Through thick bush I climb to |
| Bm474 |
| Bm473 |
| Bm472 |
| Bm471 is a cross close to the entrance of a traintunnel, on a heap of stones in the middle of a field.
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| Bm471, close-up |
| Bm470 |
| Bm469 (got frightened by two dogs who later returned to the farm) |
| Bm468 |
| Bm467/2 |
| Bm467/1 |
| Bm467
I
searched for a while for a bridge over the stream, down the road. And
there is one for pedestrians. However: no trace of bm466
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| Bm467 to the left, at the right |
| this kind of bordermarker which doubles as a milestone. On this picure we face to France. |
| And here to Spain. |
| View from my hotelroom, to the mountains which are my destination for tomorrow. |
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