IN FRENCH LANDS

During the next days we were adapting more and more, and now we want to mark our next destination, so not to go without sense like at the beginning. Until now everything has gone well, but we know that walking and hitchhiking is unpredictable, and sometimes we never know where we are going to end the day. Besides we have started to use Hospitality Club (HC) (This is a club in internet to exchange culture with people in the entire world ; also Couchsurfing (CS) is the same idea ) for stay with the people in their houses, and live together; this is the best way to know a country.

We left Irún by walk, cross the empty border and we are in France! When we cross Hondarribia and arrive at Hendaye, we tried to hitchhike, and we couldn’t be luckier…

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Here we met Enric, who brought us to Pau, and invited us to stay with him at his house.
Have a place to leave our heavy staff it’s a big advantage to visit any place, if not it will be difficult for us.
So, then we went for a walk to know Pau, a quiet city on the foot of the Pyrenees, which we could see with the truce that the weather gave us. We visited the main monuments of the city, the cathedral, the palace… and we back to Enric’s home.
The next morning we left the city by foot, and hitchhiking we met Nacho, a cool guy from Galicia who brought us to Tarbes; then with one more, we arrive to Auch, where for first time we used Hospitality Club; it couldn’t be better, the Mathieu family were very kind with us.
The old city of Auch is medieval stile and here it was born the legend of D’Artagnan.


Like we usually do, walking and hitchhiking we arrive to Tolouse. Nice and big city with beautiful architecture. In the night thanks to Sarah of HC, we went to a nice university party.

A problem that we have is always go out the big cities, like Tolouse, where we needed to walk like 10 kilometer to could hitchhike on the suburbs, as near the centre was impossible.
The rain accompanies us again, in addition of cold; for that the first car which stops we went with the man despite he didn’t go on our way. Unfortunately we were agree with the guy to stop in Auterive, and he left us in that town far away from everything, there were nobody, either buses to go out of there. We hitchhike hopeless, and yes! Somebody brought us to the toll on the highway, where the first car which stops brought us to Carcassonne; we covered this trip in 6 hours when usually it takes 1 hour.

In the city on Carcassonne is located La Cité, a impressive medieval city fortified.