Cascade d'Arcouzan

We'd planned a long walk up to Barlonguère, but a poor nights sleep and continued hot and humid weather persuaded us to have a lazy morning and in the afternoon we strolled up the Vallée d'Estours to the cascade d'Arcouzan.

Glacier d'Arcouzan

Cascade d'Arcouzan

Yesterday, we had an enormous but brief storm, which dumped over 12cm of rain in an hour including some prolonged hail downpours with hailstones the size of marbles. The road and the path to the gite were rivers, the pond overflowed and we had water in the house and gite...as did all our neighbours. The plants in the garden were shredded by the hail or flattened by the water and wind. Half a mile away the storm was nothing exceptional.