Villas furnished to be let.

Carriages and Horses.

Post and Telegraph Office, Theatre, Clubs, &c.

Guide.—­Michael Nou.

Chief Excursions:—­

The Canigou (9144 ft.)—­11 hours up and down.  Guide recommended, also provisions.  Horses 10 frs., guide 10 frs.  Horses can go within a mile of the top, from which the view is splendid.  The ascent is long but not difficult.

The Fountain des Esquereyres.—­Via Castell, 1/2 hour; a pleasant walk.

Tour de Goa.—­4 hours up and down.  An interesting battlemented tower, with a fine view.

Vallee de Sahorre.—­3 hours there and back; an enjoyable trip.

Cascade de Cadi.—­6 hours there and back; guide recommended.

The Abbey of Canigou.—­2-1/2 hours there and back; guide unnecessary.  An interesting ruin.

Vieuzac.—­A suburb of Argeles, in the Hautes-Pyrenees, possessing a donjon tower.  The station on the line from Lourdes is called Argeles-Vieuzac.

Villelongue.—­A small village in the Argeles valley, in the Hautes-Pyrenees, near Pierrefitte.  See Chapter IV.

APPENDIX B

RAILWAY INFORMATION AND SKELETON ROUTES TO THE CHIEF RESORTS IN THE PYRENEES.

For the ordinary traveller a “Continental Bradshaw” is as useful a railway guide as any, especially if his knowledge of French is limited, but the time tables published by Chaix and Cie. are also most excellent in every way.  Of these the best and most expensive is the “Livret-Chaix Continental,” price 2 frs, containing all continental railways and a complete index.  A cheaper time table is the “Indicateur des Chemins de Fer,” published by the same firm, price 1/2 fr., which gives the French railways only, with map and index.  Besides these, all the principal lines have time tables of their own, price 30 cents.

It is advisable, when people are travelling as a party, that they should have their luggage all weighed together, presenting the whole of the tickets at the same time; this not only frequently saves expense, but, as the number of persons is marked by the luggage clerk on their baggage receipt, it is a guarantee that each has bought a ticket, which saves trouble if one should happen to be lost.

When people are stopping the night en route at a place, and do not wish to take their registered luggage to the hotel, only to have to bring it back for re-registration next day, they have simply to leave it in the station, and when starting again on the morrow to tell the porter—­when they give him the baggage ticket—­that it was left overnight (for which the charge is 1d. per package), whereupon he will register it without further trouble.