Is the countryside the new Bali?

This article was written as part of an editorial collaboration with the travel app Polarsteps.

It was barely 2°C (35°F) when we parked in a supermarket lot in Argelès-Gazost, in the French Pyrenees. No turquoise water, no full moon party, no $10 smoothie bowls. Just a parking lot, raw mountains rising in front of us, a supermarket, a laundromat, and the …