This itinerary covered a three-week trip that can be split up into two parts. The first part of the trip was pretty much a week-long self-driving loop of a limited part of Northern France that started and ended in Paris. The second part of the trip covered two weeks of a much longer loop…

…to my horror, outside was raining and there were clasps of lightning and thunder! If there was a discouraging start to the day (to do Gavarnie), this would be it!…