Best place to stay
Lots of decent hotels in the Pyrenees. If
you’re lazy and feeling flush, the
government-owned Paradores are
always comfortable and secure. But as
a major tourist region, there’s no
shortage of choice of everything from
campsites to castles. Favourites include
the Parador de la Seu d’Urgell; perfect to
use as a base while you explore the
many surrounding national parks.
Best place to head to
Pick up the N-260 south of Perpignan,
where it starts life as the D914 in
France, then becomes the N-260 as it
crosses into Spain at Portbou. As a
taste of what’s to come, the road hugs
the coast for a while, warming up your
tyres with a spot of knee-down, before
heading into the hills after Figueres. The
N-260 terminates in Sabiñánigo, 320
miles and over 10 hours later.‘I’VEBEENTHERE!’
'The EU chucked a
bit of money at Spain
and they built the
N-260 for fun'
Patrick Evans, KTM 990 SM-T“In 2012 a friend was organising a
party in France and a group of us
thought if we’re riding that far, we
might as well keep going to the next
set of interesting wiggly bits — and that was the Pyrenees. We went in mid-summer and in the
mountains, it got pretty hot — 40°C at 1400m.
“The Pyrenees is jam-packed with quality roads. There’s the N-260, running across the
southern, Spanish side of the border. It’s that classic, perfect Spanish tarmac — you can tell
the EU chucked a bit of money at Spain and so they built it for fun. It runs like a ribbon, over
mountains, through valleys — it was so much fun I went back and did it again a couple of years
later, and I’m going back there again this summer. It’s just ridiculous.”TROPHY
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