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| On our way out of Rodellar we had saw this little guy trying to cross the road, I think this is possibly the first fox I've ever seen |
Albarracin is situated between Madrid and Zaragoza and is Spain's answer to Fontainbleau. It is not on the same scale by any means as Font, but for what it is, it is very good sandstone bouldering.
We managed to get 3 half days climbing, dodging the rain drops. The last day however was blissful sunshine.
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| Bouldering in Albarracin |
The village of Albarracin is a magnificent, if somewhat restored, walled medieval city with small, windy streets. I'll let the pictures do the talking.
On our way wandering through the village one of the evening we happened upon a bull fight. I have to admit it I was not impressed one little bit. To me it was one of the most barbaric cruel "sporting" (ha yeah right, nothing sporting about it at all) event I've been too. To me it was just wrong.....
On Sunday afternoon we left Albarracin embarking on our 2600 km drive back to Dublin. Over 4 days we traveled to Hossegor and spent the day roaming the little surf town, just missing the world championships, then onto Angers where we treated ourselves to an ETAP to prepare us for the long final day which started at 9am on Tuesday morning and which ended at 7pm on Wednesday evening hitting Epehy (to visit Andrew great uncle William Speer's grave who was killed in WWI), Calais (hmm not impressed), Dover, Llanberis (we had a bit of time to kill so we had lunch in Coed-y-Brenan the famous Welsh mountain bike park and then through the Llanberis pass to look at the rock and check out V12), Holyhead (well that's where the ferry was :) ) and finally arriving into Dublin Port on Wednesday evening to be greeted by a wonderful meal and lots of catchup banter at Viv & Beth's...
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| Last day in sunny France |
2 comments:
Wow... I don't remember having checked your blog before Carole. These are some really nice pictures!
ah thanks Pierre... hope all is well with you in Edinburgh, looks like you guys had a nice holiday :)
funnily when I was googling info on Albarracin, the guide in particular I found yours with the link to the guide so thank you!!
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