January 2010

'DEEZARK' is fully booked for the week of Sat 17th July - Friday 23rd July which is the ETAP & TOUR DE FRANCE week.

ETAP du Tour Mondevelo
Pau - TOURMALET Sunday 18th July

STAGE 16 - Tuesday 20th July
Bagneres de Luchon - Peyresourde - COL D'ASPIN - TOURMALET - Aubisque

STAGE 17 - Thursday 22nd July
Pau - TOURMALET



FLIGHTS - It is great that we are getting more airlines flying into the Pyrenees.

RYANAIR - Stanstead to Pau Jan-Dec
Bristol to Pau April-October
Stanstead to Lourdes (Ossun) - Dec-April
Luton & Birmingham for the ski season
Biarritz to Stanstead - Dublin - Birmingham

BMibaby - Edinburgh to Toulouse - April-October
- Manchester to Toulouse - April-Oct
2010 - Manchester to Lourdes (Ossun) April-October

EASYJET - Bristol & London Gatwick to Toulouse


In the middle of January Steve had to make a mad dash driving up through France to go and visit his parents after an emergency telephone call from family members. After a 36 hour journey he finally arrived. Spending the next 4 days assisting his parents.

I flew over to the UK days after Steve's mad dash to the UK, to visit my mother who had been in hospital for 2 weeks just before Christmas. Although she wasn't as well as she had been when I visited in November she was a lot better than I had expected.

On route from Stanstead to the north I called in and stayed the night at my cousins Katherine & Bill's just outside Cambridge. They were both very hospital as usual and it was good to see them both again.