The area around Biert is a favourite place for walkers and cyclists. The Tour de France regularily comes through here and most of the visitors to the area come for the mountain trails and cycling opportunities. There are about 30 Dutch cyclists staying in the auberge near where we are staying and as we have been driving through the mountains around here they have been puffing and panting their way up and freewheeling down the windy mountain roads.
I do wonder, though, what practice Dutch cyclists have for the mountainous terrain in the Pyrenees. Holland is famously flat so I guess the first few days must be murder on the leg muscles and then they either get used to it or give up and succumb to the call of the wine.
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