Fly to us from Manchester!

One of our guests has found this company http://www.pyreneesdirect.com/ which is offering direct flights from Manchester to Lourdes over the summer. This makes it a lot easier to reach us from the north of England/Wales and from Scotland.

Explorer walking - extra dates added

Due to its popularity, we have added two new dates for our Explorer - Valleys, Villages and Cirques guided walking holiday. The new dates are: 16-23 June and 22-29 September.

If you would like to join us on one of these holidays, please contact us via our easy to use web form or call us on 00 33 (0)5 62 92 16 39.

Spring photos

Spring is coming to the Pyrenees. We've been getting out and about checking out our walks and itineraries before the season begins (changes to paths, roads etc) and maybe buying the odd bit of cheese from the farmer's market....the photos speak for themselves.

15 May - Driving down from Bareges to Luz-St Saveur

Last week - view of Sers from Betpouey (Bareges is up the valley, to the right)

Viey from the path between Betpouey and Viella

Griffon Vultures circling the Argeles market

MountainBug founding Director, Rob, buying cheese at Argeles market - which we visit on our Taster - Valleys and views holiday

MountainBug Director Kara with her wriggly daughter, Lac D'Estaing (also on the Taster - Valleys and Views holiday itinerary)

Spring gentians, Lac D'Estaing, Val D'Azun

Lac D'Estaing, looking towards the Spanish border

Local traffic jam on our way back from Lac D'Estaing

Our latest newsletter

We've just emailed out our first newsletter as "new" MountainBug.

For those of you who aren't on the email list (taken from past clients), you can read the it here. To get the next newsletter straight to your inbox, please subscribe to it via our contact us page, with the title "Subscribe to newsletter". We only do two a year and guard fiercely all email addresses so you won't get spammed forever.

We've also got a QR code for the MountainBug Spring Newsletter. If you have a QR code reader on your smart phone and scan this code in, it will take you directly to the newsletter too.

Winter 2012-13 holidays at 2011-12 prices until 15 May

The ski resort has closed and we have all gone on our holidays. We all decided to visit the motherland, the UK, just as the heavens opened. It has not stopped raining for three weeks. We are all missing our mountains!

In the meantime, we have written two articles you might find interesting.

The first is about activity holidays in the Pyrenees. It's full of ideas, advice and tips.

The other is about walking and hiking in the High Pyrenees and includes some of our favourite places to walk and hike in it.

Special offer

If you book and pay your deposit for a winter 2012-13 holiday  before May 15, you will get it at winter 2011-12 prices.