And now France

Yesterday we went on a short trip to Oloron Sainte-Marie. It takes a bit more than an hour on excellent Spanish roads, a brilliant 8.606km tunnel and really poor French roads through the picturesque steep Aspe valley. The autumn colours on the northern (French) side were really spectacular. It was a beautiful day.
A relaxing café au lait on a sunny terrace and a steep walk to the eglise de Sainte Croix, kindly left open so we could see its painted Romanesque inside.

Sainte-Croix is at the end of the street

Then a trip to the hypermarché to buy French things. (wine, cheese, canard) Lidl was interesting. There were some products which they don't sell in Spanish Lidl, such as blueberry jam, but generally the same stuff. We spent more time in the big Leclerc opposite. Something you really don't want to buy in France is petrol, which is about 13 cents more than in the province of Huesca; admittedly it's supposed to be one of the cheapest in Spain for petrol.

Homewards  towards the mountains now starting to look white past the bracken-covered hills and the lovely slopes of trees.