The latest addition of Alpentourer has a quite long suggested route.
GPX - Puigcerdà / Pamplona including Andorra - 1,200 km / 750 miles
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some of my favourite roads in the Pyrenees - many miss the French side but those roads are lovely
Some hotels I would use again on or near this route, all have parking:
Oloron Ste Marie: Hotel Le Central
Jaca: Grand Hotel
Vielha: Hotel Eth de Pomer
Sort: Hotel des Brases
Pamplona: Hotel Yoldi has a garage but I will review after I stay there in May!
Some hotels I would use again on or near this route, all have parking:
Oloron Ste Marie: Hotel Le Central
Jaca: Grand Hotel
Vielha: Hotel Eth de Pomer
Sort: Hotel des Brases
Pamplona: Hotel Yoldi has a garage but I will review after I stay there in May!
Going down that way in September 
Looks like hard work! I assume it’s all paved roads. Our trip last year started a St. JdePdeP and finished at Puigcerda and stayed mostly on the Spanish side which feels more ‘away from it all’.
there is considerable faffing about with he route above, crossing the national border and going up to Cols and back down the same side.
the classic route is to take the D918/D618 on the French side until you get to the Spanish border just outside Vielha. The route is very much away from it all. Many of the larger towns, busy ski resorts if they get snow, are deserted but much of it is across open countryside.
The N260 on the Spanish side has some substantial towns and large villages so I don't agree it is "more away from it all"
As far as Ican make out, the article is about a col ticking exercise, which is why it sometimes goes up a road, then comes back again.
And is designed, in part at least to include Andora:
It’s different, spread (the blurb says) over six to seven days, leaving lots of time to see ‘stuff’.
Are all the cols paved? Some of them will not be EU funded shell grip. Some will be the smaller cols, but nothing anyone on an Adventure (with a capital A) motorbike couldn’t cope with.
Use MyRoutes’ ability to show Google street view, to scope ‘em out (as bikermates say):
Screen shots of the article. It’s in foreign….
they miss out one of my favourites Cols, de Marie Blanque, as they head off to Jaca and back to Larun. Ridden it twice and it still raised a smile on the second ride. Of course, I have done the Somport and Portalet at other times when based in Jaca, so focused on the French side on my last trip to the Pyrenees
https://maps.app.goo.gl/s48vULHW6aESTuXq5
The eastern, Larins side of the Col is more open than the western side that passes through forests, and gives good views of the higher Pyrenees. So best views are travelling east.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/s48vULHW6aESTuXq5
The eastern, Larins side of the Col is more open than the western side that passes through forests, and gives good views of the higher Pyrenees. So best views are travelling east.
They always miss something 
