Bourg-Madame

That’s all I keep from this place.

I lived there for nearly 5 years. The region is beautiful, peaceful on the plate surrounded by the mountains. It’s called La Cerdagne (Sardana). Bourg-Madame is the Spanish barrier. It’s a town, not a city. There’s a supermaket, doctors, police, schools (mid-school, no highschool) hotels… but the closer hospital is in Prades (50 km). However, I love this place and would like to go back, it’s a charming place.

There’re lots of places to visit around (including Osséjà :DDD, the park, the lake), the roads climbing, when the weather is beautiful, you can see all the plate as you climb, it’s really a unique feeling. You can go to the mountain (never alone! ;) ), and maybe have the luck to see wild animals. And when you’re up there, close to the top, in between the very green grass and very blue sky, you watch the valley, there’s nothing better (unless you’re in good company, this is better). This is the other place where I felt absolutely both unique and a wholly part of it.

In the winter, you can ski. I don’t know all the stations I believe. I know that Font-Romeu is accessible to beginners, and basically accessible lol. I had fun at the Puymorens station for cross-country skiing. Font-Romeu too. I’m not a great downhill skiing, but I know some of crazy skiers I had in my class loved the Puygmal station. I only made cross-country skiing there, and my advice is if you have the vertigo, don’t go, the way to go (especially with a bus) is a suffering, and the pist (for cross-country skiing), looked like a descending pist, just talking to the precipice.

You can also take the tour lol like I say, with The little Yellow Train (le petit train jaune). From memory, it’s from station La Tour de Carol, to Villefranche (castle to visit, of ruins, I don’t remember very well). You pass in the middle of the mountains, on very high bridges (Bridge ‘Gisclar on the picture).

I don’t remember all but I can say I went to Targazonne, Odeillo (the solar oven). There’s Le lac des bouillouses, that reminds me of New Zealand (pictures I saw).

I so much wanna go back there.