Friday 12 October 2012

Adventure!

Today is a national holiday, El Pilar, and the trees are beginning to turn. We took our old, recently repaired Ford Escort to Zuriza in the western end of the Aragonese Pyrenees. It was lovely. The beech trees in the valley were beginning to change,

we walked for some time and then drove down to a place called Borda Arracona where we ate a delicious dinner of  "migas" - breadcrumbs fried in lamb suet (not for eating more than once a year) salad, then for some wild boar stew, lamb chops or leg of lamb, washed down with red wine. 

migas a la pastora

This was on the wall above my head.
Up to this point everything was great. Andrés, who had only drunk water started to drive home. It was about four o'clock. We were going along the picturesque Foz de Biniés when the car died. Rafa and Andrés went for help; there was no phone signal there at all. David put up the warning triangles and we waited. A car stopped and we asked the occupants to pick up the others and take them to somewhere with a phone. An hour later a towtruck arrived and rescued us. Rafa and Andrés had been taken to the Guardia Civil in Ansó, where they rang the insurance, who sent the tow truck and ordered a taxi which picked us all up from the Cuardia Civil and took us home. What a day! Monday, back to the Ford Garage.

Tuesday 2 October 2012

Trip to England

Broken pier in Brighton

"Hang on lads, I've got an idea" at the De la Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea

The Pyrenees on the way home
It was raining when I arrived on Sunday 23rd September. It was raining when I left Ringmer on Monday 1st October. It rained most of the week I was in England. Saturday was sunny and Sunday it didn't rain. The rest of the time it was mild and wet.