Wow, that's a long way to go for 2 days riding! But what good riding it is - looks like you had perfect weather too. Didn't realise those huge bikes were on the Aubisque year round (had only seen them when we were there for the Tour a couple of years ago).
You can fly there, there's an airport about 10km from Lourdes, plus you can rent spangly carbon bikes from several places, but that all seemed too much like a corporate power sport weekend....
And yes, we were very lucky with the weather, absolutely perfect.
Wow, that's a long way to go for 2 days riding! But what good riding it is - looks like you had perfect weather too. Didn't realise those huge bikes were on the Aubisque year round (had only seen them when we were there for the Tour a couple of years ago).