The Great Bear In the Pyrenees

Bears were reintroduced in the Pyrenees in 1996 (See Julia Stagg’s account here) and although our house is right there in the middle of “bear country” I must admit that I have never seen or heard one, even though I go out rambling and cycling a lot in that area. Yet, on a starry night, I spotted Ursa Major (a.k.a. the Big Bear).

> Read on: Julia Stagg’s novels set in a fictional mountain village of the Pyrenees named “Fogas”