With the latest whirlwinds upsetting geopolitics, this seems like a very appropriate time to remind myself that the overwhelming majority...

Confession time. I've never climbed the Col d'Aubisque. Not even in a car. And I'm not going to until my daughter is ready for it....

An extremely tough climb and another Tour de France favourite, their last visit to the Hautacam was for stage 18 in 2022. The beauty of...

From Pierrefitte-Nestalas at the end of the voie verte in the valley of the Gave de Pau , the climb to the pretty town of Cauterets...

Both of these climbs have appeared in the Tour de France in recent years including one after the other in 2022. These climbs are...

At 2115 m the Tourmalet is the granddaddy of Pyrenees climbs, the most climbed col in Tour de France history, appearing in virtually...

Well, it wasn't a cycling centre of course. It was a large building, in need of total renovation, somewhere in the vicinity of Bagnères...

In February 2019, my daughter Imogen, her boyfriend Harry and I, arrived with a van load of tools and belongings to transform a 1960s B&B...

Inverted commas because, of course, it was anything but a holiday. In July 2018, about 5 weeks after the purchase, we were able to go...

We've built a sauna for relaxing at the end of the day. When we arrived here in 2018 it was hard to see through the head-high brambles...

Excellent news for cyclists returning after a day in the Pyrenees mountains - our newly installed hot tub. Come and stay in 2025!