En Route To Gargas

Our next destination was the great prehistoric cave at Gargas, and getting there took us across more of the Pyrenees-Atlantique and the Haute-Pyrenees.

Part of the way we were on the Route du Fromage

Which required the purchase of at least a small round of Basque cheese (which
we were still eating in Paris awaiting our return fight to the US)

Gentle countryside, bucolic, the haze yet with us

An interesting church with trinitarian steeple and crenallated
entry

A 12th century church and stop on the Camino de Santiago; the whole Camino is
on the World Heritage Site list, which means that every little hamlet and hamlet
church for hundreds (thousands?) of miles can claim to be a World Heritage Site;
some caution is needed in choosing sites to visit here

The walled town/bastide of Navarrenx

Main entrance and sallyport

And then the Find of the Day, Navarrenx' thirteenth century (1280, to be exact) still
completely functional bridge; we drove across it twice before we realized what it
was; a marvel not in any of our guidebooks! Note the vastly different sized arches