Tarzan

Johnny Weissmuller was famed for his role as Tarzan in the black and white films of yesterday year. The cupped hands around his face as he called his famous "arrrrrr eeeeee arrrr eeee arrrrr" and then began his swinging and swooping trapeze around the jungle canopy. All went well for him as long as his next rope/vine was there waiting for him. I don't recall ever seeing him flail around clinging onto a rope and thinking "erm, now where was I going, if only there was a rope!"

You may now be expecting some blogging about daring do adventures in the Pyrenean forests with ropes and lots of climbing etc. Sadly not. 

Tarzan is just an analogy for the nearly failed outcomes of the day. Leaving Andorra and climbing over the Pyrenees was fantastic. Good old Hugo dragged us over the top (no fan involvement either in the engine department!!!!) and not through the cheating tunnel way. After a short walk amongst the hills we headed onwards. The descent then into France gave us the chance to fully warm the brakes up and also create many a queue of traffic behind us. I might ask the French government for a payment by way of our traffic calming movements!

Anyway, as per usual we had our destination planned, and some backups if needed. We dutifully arrived at our first destination all ready to unbelt, but were greeted by the sign 'Ferme' which then led to one of us saying "Gite" or something like that. We headed for the back up, but the answer was the same. 

At this point, Johnny Weissmuller (Tarzan) is swinging through the trees, all is good, but then, when at his most confident, he runs out of vines and ends up swinging around on his only rope! This was where we were at. Having confidently moved from vine to vine, rope  to rope, camp site to camp site, Aire to Aire, free camp to free camp, it's slightly weird to be left high and dry with nowhere to go. 

By sheer chance we stumbled across a site just 4km from Carcassonne which is pleasant and quiet. 

It has given us food for thought though. We some how have to negotiate the rest of France and Italy next. There will now be time spent planning and finding the 'vines' and 'ropes' before we get too much further.

Ed