Hotel Diana Arinsal

... having a beer and watching a man try to dig his van out of the snow. To my knowledge his van is to this moment where it was when I left the bar. <br><br> I just wanted to take this opportunity to post some pictures of Canillo when it's snowy and the sun comes out. Don't have too many, but figured it was worth a post.<br><br>

... at 7:30am. However upon arriving at l'Hospitalet all my fears were put to rest.<br><br> It's misleading that they call l'Hospitalet a train station, it would be more correct if they called it a gravel lot with vending machines. As I filed into the line to get off the train, eager to find the bus, I grew frustrated that the line wasn't moving faster. When my turn finally came to get off the train I noticed that the line continued straight from the train to ...

Le plan original était d'aller à Cahors visiter un vignoble, mais puisque l'on n'a pas de voiture (considérant que les vignes sont dans des champs et non au centre ville) on n'a pas pu y aller. J'ai trouvé sur internet qu'il y avait plusieurs grotte dans le sud donc on en a choisi une pas trop trop loin et on a acheté nos billet de train.<br><br>Tarascon sur Ariege est à environ 1h15 de toulouse donc ca se fait quand meme bien. C'est un ...

Found out today that the 90 day tourist visa that I thought we were granted for each country is actually for the combined Senchgen countries. Since we'll be at least 60 days in France alone, it means we won't be doing the France, Italy, Greece and then Turkey route we had planned on in the length of time we'd ...

... the cured leg of pork. <br><br> In the barn was a meat bird who was lame and in pain and it was time to put it out of it&#8217;s misery (and vary our pork-rich diet). In an effort to understand what it means to eat meat (and perhaps cement her decision to eat vegetarian) she offered to kill the chicken! She managed to get through the killing not too badly, but plucking was a bit too much to bear. And then to eat it&#8230;well that&#8217;s ...

... refrigeration for the meat. With wind-chill, that was absolutely frigid for 45 minutes! And with the winding mountain roads, the weight of the meat kept shifting into me with the occasional trotter popping out from under the covering. <br><br> Watching Austin process the carcase into usable joints of meat was truly a work of art. His knife flew, knowing exactly where to cut and slicing with one quick motion. Any small ...

Time to attempt something I&#8217;ve always been itching to do: rock climbing. And not the kind done on indoor walls with padded flooring. Real out-in-the-open, unforgiving stone ROCK CLIMBING!<br><br>Out in the Pyrenees in the Ariege region with it&#8217;s beautiful slopes lie a multitude of rock faces covered in climbers pretending to be Spiderman. <br><br>Even though it&#8217;s something I&#8217;ve always wanted to try, there were a few ...

A side trip with the truck enabled us to get to areas we couldn&#8217;t normally access. Not that we would even attempt it on bicycles - vehicles are bad enough. Windy roads where motion sickness is a given, &#8216;oh ****&#8217; handles are coming loose from repetitive strain, and a straight section of road lasts about 20m. <br><br>Our goal was a little damned in lake almost on the ...

... was nothing left to do but salvage our van from the two-foot of snow encircling it and hope the god of German engineering was smiling on us. Happily, the van started first go. It then proceeded to conk out a couple of times a few hundred metres later but, as had been so aptly demonstrated the day before, if you park on top of a hill, anything is possible. And so a few hours later and a few degrees warmer we found ourselves our out of Andorra and rolling east across France...

... am smiling now as I think of his surprised expression, as he slid backwards towards the precipice. Don't worry, he fell over long before he got there. A couple of years later, we went back to Andorra one last time, to the resort of Pas de la Casa, which had the enormous advantage of being about 2 hours closer to the airport. It's also linked to Grau Roig ("Graw Rojsh"), which is a bit prettier. By this time, we were ...