The bordermarkers of the Pyrenees : all my trips  | |
| - 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. |
 | My hotel in Puigcerda where I arrived yesterdag. It is cloudy this morning, hiding the mountains in the distance. So 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 |
 | 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 |
 | Bm486 |
 | A "hunting restricted" sign on the border, a bordermarker in his own right. |
 | Bm485 |
 | Bm484 |
 | Bm483 |
 | 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 |
 | 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. |
 | 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 |
 | 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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