FRIENDS OF THE
PYRENEES MOUNTAINS
Offers a low cost non profit sustainable alternative to holiday renting and commercial trekking tours. NL F D
Who are the "Friends of the Pyrenees"?
We love walking, hiking, trekking and exploring the Pyrenees and the Midi-Pyrenees region South of France, Andorra and Catalonia. We are a rather sporty,fair play and intellectual (not to much) enjoy, for instance, hiking, rambling, climbing, potholing, angling, martial arts and mountain biking, ...) We want to meet similar families or groups from other E.U countries or abroad. That's why we offer self catering accommodation in the Pyrenees and trekking guide service as a small-scale, simple, friendly and inexpensive meeting place for families and smaller groups who
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How do we manage?
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What do we do with subscription monies ? Our income is used primarily to cover the costs of the house : purchases for renovation and improvement, insurance etc.) and office costs (phone and post, stationery, computer, web site etc.). Any surplus is used for purchasing camping equipment |
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Conditions :
Full year Membership fees : 450€ for hikers, 700€ for families. Groups : 1.400€. (Full year : starting upon receipt)
Family Membership fee includes a 2 weeks (July-August) or 3 weeks summer stay (3 weeks if starting in June or running onto September), extra stays: you only pay 5€ per night per person.
Group Membership (Family or hikers groups) fee includes a 2 weeks (July-August) or 3 weeks (low season), for extra stays your group pays 5€ per person per overnight or 50€ per group overnight. Groups get the house for their own.
Hikers Membership fee includes participation in our no guru no mysticism mountain retreat, Stays at the house at 5€ per overnight (except 15/6 to 15/9).
Other membership advantages :
Pyrenees guide service (private hikes) : Basic cost is 180€ a day but Members can deduce their membership fee from total amount.
Full immersion learn Dutch Lessons : Members can deduce their membership fee from the price of the program chosen.
Extra costs are limited :
When staying at Friends of the Pyrenees house :water+electricity+gas+wood at 0,15€ per Kw, more wood at current price. +75€ for cleaning up.
A deposit of 100€ a week (minimum 200€) is to be paid as a warrant at beginning of each stay. You get this deposit costs deduced back at end of stay.
Hiking :Trekking tents, sleeping mats and gas stoves are available, only extra cost is your food. If you prefer and don't have one you can hire a one
person tent at 2€ per night.
Insurance: as you travel you really need an individual, family or group travel insurance, do check it includes mountain research and rescue.
A civil responsibility insurance covering all family or group members is a membership condition.
How to get here ? the cheapest is probably by RyanAir and if you come for a stay car rental. You don't need a car when you're hiking. More on our checklist and practical info page.
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Further information? or phone us at +32 60 456 497 or post to : "The
Friends of the Pyrenees", F-09400 Miglos (France) or Haie des Chats 3 B-6500 Renlies (Belgium) |
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Impressum / legal info / copyright
This website is the international Pyrenees mountains information website of Vriendenkring Amitié Européenne asbl a Belgian small is beatifull non profit association.
Our other websites are:
www.pyrenees.be for more information in French. This website also contains a 2 weeks trail description, an alternative high route through the French and Andorran Pyrenees.
Similar information in Dutch about our Pyrenees house, family holidays, guided treks and extended information on our mountain retreat is on
As you may guess we cannot earn the necessary money to run our organization, the house, our trekkings and hikes only through membership fees.
That's why since 2003 we joined in DialoguE, according to The Wall Street Journal one of the best European language schools, to provide high level crash courses Dutch for executive managers and the higher educated.
Richard our former senior benevolent is working full time as our employee now.
Richard has a background in Organizational Development, expertise in learning and personal development strategies (he teaches that topic at Continuing Studies of Lille II University).
He's fluent in English, German and French.
Richard loves teaching his mother tongue in an efficient one to one setting and is a real expert in client- and dialogue centered learning.
Richard commits himself fully in teaching you Dutch even starting from scratch in an amazing minimum time.
click here on this site.
A special website in German dedicated to this Dutch courses for the higher educated is www.sprachkursniederlaendisch.de
Same information to our French full immersion private Dutch courses can be found on www.apprendre-le-neerlandais.com
responsible editor :
Richard van Egdom
office & contact : Lutiau 53, B-6500 Beaumont
Friends of the Pyrenees House : Le Castel, F-09400 Miglos
phone +32 60 456 497