A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.
A week's adventure in the Pyrenees and five days splendid meandering along another bit of the GR11 - the bit I'd missed out between Pineta and Aigues Tortes in Cataluña
Date of event: 15/07/2007
Parzán is shown as point 19 and Viadós or sometimes Biadós is point 20 in this map image
I started in Parzán, a little village to the north of Bielsa. It had taken all day to get here from Barcelona: a bus to Barbastro, then another to Ainsa and, not wanting to wait for the only bus of the day from there which didn't leave until 9.00pm, I hitchhiked the rest of the way. Thanks to an american woman weaver who lives in San Juan de Plan who took me to Bielsa, and then thanks to a french couple who made a special journey to take me from there to Parzan. Much appreciated.
Parzan was a pretty little hamlet, nestled in the mountains. I stayed in a 'casa rural' and met a fellow walker who was also doing the GR11, though he was doing it in one go and had already been walking for 20 days. A great guy, Juanjo, who I walked with for the next two days. Walked and laughed actually.