Aneto Hotel Huesca
Ancilles 2, Benasque Huesca, Aragón, 22440, Spain and Canary Islands
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Christmas in Northern Spain
It's Christmas. Yesterday we were three in a small European car leaving Barcelona with map and full tank of gas. West we went then onwards north. Small Spanish towns came into view and disappeared as easy as they came. Slightly north we found our way into the foothills of the Pyrenees. Sometimes we were lost but it didn’t matter we would find our way. We arrived at a small nameless town and cruised up a hill under the cover of the darkness of a long set sun. These places with ...
Joyeux Noel!!
... conditions will be better than the other day. This will be followed by a dozen oysters from île d’Oleron and some bubbly before descending on Tony and Louise to join them and Thiery and Dominique for a traditional Christmas dinner.
We shall be making the most of it today as tomorrow I have a family of 10 French, 3 generations, arriving to ski and celebrate the New Year. It has taken some organising as the French don’t usually do ...
Old stuff and the mood
The scenery is magnificent and every village has a church of the Romanesque style and all of the buildings are of stone and most appear ancient. The oldest buildings in the US appear modern in comparison. There are castles and monasteries all over the map and I have visited a few. There is definitely a medieval flavor to it all. It gets ...
The Word to Huesca!
... we immediately headed off 5 hours up the road to Huesca where he lived when he was first a missionary and where he has recently seen a new Emmaus office open!
Breakfast was early on the plane, a mid morning snack on the way, lunch after 3, a visit and snack with some now settled Christian Gypsies to invite them to the meeting, and dinner after 10. It's not my normal schedule, nor my normal amount of meals. Food won't be a problem!
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What a difference a day makes
... few bookings but many enquiries and we remain positive.
On Friday Michel and his son Pierre arrived for a week's holiday and yesterday Driss and Evelynne arrived. Marie-Helêne and the rest of the family arrived later and suddenly we have neighbours again. Michel came bearing gifts: wine and pears and then asked if he and Pierre could watch the Rugby final on our TV in exchange for cooking us lunch. Sounded like a fair deal to me. New Zealand deserved to win the tournament ...


