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Part I
With Tartas, we leave the forest but not the Landes département : part II will be about villages of the hilly Southern part of the département known as Chalosse.
Tartas :
The Midouze river divides Tartas into two distinct entities : the High-Town with the Church and the Low-Town.
The Low-Town :
Ascending the Town :
The Sun prevents me from taking pics of the church, so let's head to Pontonx and its bullring :
We now enter Chalosse with the village of Gousse :
Louer :
Gamarde-les-Bains :
Montfort-en-Chalosse :
Curiously enough, Montfort's church is not in the town but on a nearby hill :
As an ending, let's see Béarn's neighbouring villages : first Sault-de-Navailles.
Lacadée (notice that the architecture is getting more Pyrenean) :
No style ! (vaguely basco-landais actually)
We're in Sauvagnon, a little village North of Pau. That's also where my Peugeot 309 decided to die (before being resurrected two weeks later). Cause of the death : transmission clutch. I should have known that 80km/h was not optimal on highways. The Pic d'Orhy (Orhi Mendia in Basque) still welcomes me to home.
With Tartas, we leave the forest but not the Landes département : part II will be about villages of the hilly Southern part of the département known as Chalosse.

Tartas :



The Midouze river divides Tartas into two distinct entities : the High-Town with the Church and the Low-Town.

The Low-Town :




Ascending the Town :



The Sun prevents me from taking pics of the church, so let's head to Pontonx and its bullring :


We now enter Chalosse with the village of Gousse :




Louer :


Gamarde-les-Bains :



Montfort-en-Chalosse :












Curiously enough, Montfort's church is not in the town but on a nearby hill :




As an ending, let's see Béarn's neighbouring villages : first Sault-de-Navailles.






Lacadée (notice that the architecture is getting more Pyrenean) :


No style ! (vaguely basco-landais actually)

We're in Sauvagnon, a little village North of Pau. That's also where my Peugeot 309 decided to die (before being resurrected two weeks later). Cause of the death : transmission clutch. I should have known that 80km/h was not optimal on highways. The Pic d'Orhy (Orhi Mendia in Basque) still welcomes me to home.


