Evenia Hotel Monte Alba Huesca

Un petit TP de deux jours dans les Pyrénées dans le cadre du cours de Fonctionnement des écosystèmes. Bon...les écosystèmes du sud de la France étaient un petit peu décevant, mais les paysages étaient vraiment beaux.

La plus haute altitude à laquelle on s'est rendu : 2200 m

As part of our 10 year anniversary celebration, we left the kids with Farmor and drove to Spain. We wanted to hike the canyons of Odessa. The drive was an amazing twisty-turning, hair raising experience along many of the roads used during the Tour de France ...

... for the mist. At times the route was a little scary tackling the rock fields. I didn't carry enough food and I hadn't really had enough to eat yesterday, so I was as keen as mustard (I'd have eaten mustard rather) to get to Luchon asap. So when the cable car came into view (I was one metre away to be able to see it) I considered my options; 2 more hours of descent or 5 euros 90 and down in a jiffy? What do you think? Okay my tent was ...

... some damage

Vultures... many varieties

Golden eagle x 2 ... huge... a shadow appeared over me and I thought it was a cloud blotting out the sun

Cat... I didn't mention 'Guardcat' who Jean and I befriended weeks ago whilst wild camping by a river in the first week. I'm pretty sure she was lost. Had I been able to post her home .... we did report her to the local shop keeper hoping someone would rescue her

Marmots.... lots of them, now there's a pet to ...

Ordesa es el parque nacional de los Pirineos en su vertiente española. Su macizo principal es el Monte Perdido con 3.355m y sus valles mas destacados son los de Añisclo, Ordesa, Escuaín y Pineta. Durante estos días de la Semana Santa del 09 recorrimos los dos primeros valles, con la suerte de que durante la noche anterior a la ascensión por el valle de Ordesa, cayó una importante nevada , dejando un paisaje espectacular.

... out that The Wailers were coming to Salo Apolo! Then we found a cool carnival set up with CRAZY ELECTRIC LIGHTS. We even went on one of the crazy upside down rides. It was a great weekend that just started off the great week of LA MERCE! Please leave some comments so I know whos looking at this or if its all just my mom :) Ive also got alot more La Merce to put up ... Also I booked a flight to meet up with Rachel and Jon in Bristol England!! yeahh!! <3

... drive since Toulouse was the closest major city. On our way we stopped at a French rest stop and we were both very surprised at what we found. Brian found stalls that had no urinals in them. After wondering what he should do he realized that the men were just going on the wall. To his surprise there was a trough that was embedded into the floor. In the women's restroom I was shocked to see what looked like the ...

... fish, olives of course (this region is THE region for Arbequina olive oil - reputed to be some of the best in the world and of which I take home a few bottles on each trip to Spain) some rabbit and then dessert. So then we had to head back to BCN to catch a plane to Marseille...now that was an adventure that I will write about as soon as I calm down from the feeling of pure seething hate at the mention of the word "Air France"

... come to the "New World" yet when this town was built. Spain's history is so deep-I absolutely love it. We also saw these drawings from early cavemen that were drawn over 5,000 years ago. They were a little lame because they looked like stick figures but it was incredible to picture these cavemen hunting their own food, living in caves and documenting their life. It was also really cool to think about how art really started. Without these stick ...

... things very interesting. We are sad to say, however, that we've decided to leave Spain prematurely and skip Portugal altogether. In three weeks we've only covered a tiny corner of Spain - the Catalunya region in the northeast - and to do this country (and Portugal) any justice we figure we need at least three months or so. Unfortunately we don't have that time this year, with what we have in store for ourselves in the next few months. Southern Spain and Portugal will ...