'Twixt France and Spain; Or, A Spring in the Pyrenees

Trains and Steamers--Bordeaux and its Hotels--Lamothe--Morcenx-- Dax--Puyoo--Orthez--First impressions of Pau--The Hotels and Pensions--Amusements--Pension Colbert--Making up pa...

Carriage _v_. diligence--Early birds--Height of absurdity--Diminutive donkeys--A whitened region--"Crystal clear"--Washerwomen and their gamps--A useful town-hall--A halfway hou...

SIRADAN.--A small bathing resort in the valley of same name, in the Hautes-Pyrénées, with a bathing establishment and hotel in one building, 2 miles from Saléchan station on the...

Backward Spring--Hôtel Beau Séjour--Effect of the war of '70 on the English Colony--The "Coustous"--The Church of St. Vincent-- Géruzet's Marble Works--Donkeys--Up the Monné--Ba...

A warm ride--Bayonne--A "Noah's ark" landscape--Amusements --Bathing--Shells--Cavillers--A canine feat--The pier and rocks--A restless sea--"The Three Cormorants"--Dragon's-mout...

Pic du Midi de Bigorre.--8 hrs. up and down. Guide and horses, 5 frs. each. The favourite excursion in the vicinity, and one of the finest in the Pyrenees. The panorama which is...

The bathing establishment and its surroundings--The lovely _Allées_--Montauban church and cascade--The Villa Russe and its genial host--Various excursions--Orphanage of Notre Da...

Road v. Rail--Scenes, sublime and ridiculous--Hôtel d'Angleterre-- Questions and "The Argelès Shepherd's Reply"--A forbidden path--The ride to Ges, Serres, Salluz, and Ourous--A...

Hotel de la Poste, Pierrefitte--The Gorge--Its majestic beauty--The resemblance to the Llanberis Pass--Mrs. Blunt becomes poetical--Zinc mines--Le Pont de Médiabat--Entering the...

Although we have in reality come to the end of our tour, and have consequently no more places to discourse on, it may be suggested that our task is but badly ended if we omit to...

Rain at starting--A blighted view, yet lovely still--Pont d'Enfer --Nature's voice--Sère and Esquiez--Luz--Its situation and status--An old house--The ancient Church of the Temp...

Keeping to old friends--Valley history--Entering the Garonne valley--The picturesque St. Béat--St. Béat to Viella--Memories of the lovely Thames--Baths of Ste. Marie--Loures--Th...

A "falling glass"--The wonderful echo--Cascade Lassariou--Sia and its bridge--Pont de Desdouroucat--"Changing scenes"--Bugaret torrent--The Piméné--Bué--Gèdre--Brêche de Roland...

Pont de Pescadère--Sassis--Gave de Gavarnie--St. Sauveur--Hotel de France--Pont Napoléon--Napoleon's pillar--Bee orchids--Chapel of Solferino--The view from thence--Ne'er a herm...

A smiling valley--Lourdes again--The chapel in the crypt--St. Peter's statue--Burnished toes--Solemn quietude--Preparing for the great pilgrimage--"Ornamented" crosses--Mr. Sydn...

The Journey to Tarbes--The Buffet and the Nigger--Lourdes Station in the Wet--Importunate "Cochers"--Hôtel des Pyrénées--"Red tape" and Porters--Lourdes in Sunshine--Sightseeing...

It has been my endeavour in this volume to provide an illustrated gossiping Guide to the Spas of the Pyrenees. Unlike previous books on the same region, it deals with the resort...

To the Hospice de Prance and the Cascades--des Demoiselles, et du Parisien, 9 1/4 miles. Carriage-road all the way. Landau, 25 frs.; but 4 frs. per seat in the Hospice diligence...

The Bathing Establishment is supplied by four cold springs, containing sulphate of lime principally, but also small quantities of magnesia and soda. The water is heated for bath...

PERPIGNAN.--A large town on the river Tet, in the Pyrénées Orientales, junction for Prades (station for Vernet), from the Toulouse line and starting-point of the coach for Améli...

Hôtel de la Poste, Pierrefitte--The Gorge--Its majestic beauty--The resemblance to the Llanberis Pass--Mrs. Blunt becomes poetical--Zinc mines--Le Pont de Médiabat--Entering the...

SAINT SÉBASTIEN.--A town in the north of Spain, on the shores of the Biscay, 163-1/2 miles from Bordeaux, 35 from Biarritz, and 19 from Hendaye (the French frontier town). Posse...

Trains and steamers--Bordeaux and its hotels--Lamothe --Morcenx--Dax--Puyoo--Orthez--First impressions of Pau--The hotels and pensions--Amusements--Pension Colbert--Making up pa...

Backward spring--Hôtel Beau Séjour--Effect of the war of '70 on the English colony--The "Coustous"--The Church of St. Vincent--Géruzet's marble works--Donkeys--Up the Monné--Bai...

Two Bathing Establishments, fed by four sources, one of which is calcareous, and the rest of a sulphurous nature. They are useful for curing wounds, rheumatism, skin diseases, e...

Road _v_. rail--Scenes, sublime and ridiculous--Hôtel d'Angleterre--Questions and "The Argelès Shepherd's Reply"--A forbidden path--The ride to Ges, Serres, Salluz, and Ourous--...

The bathing establishment and its surroundings--The lovely _Allées_--Montauban church and cascade--The Villa Russe and its genial host--Various excursions--Orphanage of Notre Da...

A "falling glass"--The wonderful echo--Cascade Lassariou--Sia and its bridge--Pont de Desdouroucat--"Changing scenes"--Bugaret torrent--The Piméné--Bué--Gèdre--Brêche de Roland...

Pont de Pescadère--Sassis--Gave de Gavarnie--St. Sauveur--Hôtel de France--Pont Napoléon--Napoleon's pillar--Bee orchids--Chapel of Solferino--The view from thence--Ne'er a herm...

Carriage _v_. diligence--Early birds--Height of absurdity --Diminutive donkeys--A whitened region--"Crystal clear"--Washerwomen and their gamps--A useful townhall--A half-way ho...

A smiling valley--Lourdes again--The chapel in the crypt--St. Peter's statue--Burnished toes--Solemn quietude--Preparing for the great pilgrimage--"Ornamented" crosses--Mr. Sydn...

Rain at starting--A blighted view, yet lovely still--Pont d'Enfer--Nature's voice--Sère and Esquiez--Luz--Its situation and status--An old house--The ancient church of the Templ...

A warm ride--Bayonne--A "Noah's ark" landscape-- Amusements--Bathing--Shells--Cavillers--A canine feat--The pier and rocks--A restless sea--"The Three Cormorants"--Dragon's-mout...

Keeping to old friends--Valley history--Entering the Garonne valley--The picturesque St. Béat--St. Béat to Viella--Memories of the lovely Thames--Baths of Ste. Marie--Loures--Th...

The journey to Tarbes--The Buffet and the Nigger--Lourdes station in the wet--Importunate "Cochers"--Hôtel des Pyrénées--"Red tape" and Porters--Lourdes in sunshine--Sightseeing...