{"id":41,"date":"2002-10-10T22:39:47","date_gmt":"2002-10-10T22:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/archives\/2002\/10\/10\/spanish-weekend\/"},"modified":"2002-10-10T22:39:47","modified_gmt":"2002-10-10T22:39:47","slug":"spanish-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/archives\/2002\/10\/10\/spanish-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Spanish weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent last weekend in the Pyrenees with a couple of friends and of course my digital camera.<\/p>\n<p>We flew to Barcelona, hired a car and drove north to the town of Vielha, right up in the mountains.  The view definitely makes a nice change from the tedious flatness of eastern England.<\/p>\n<p>We spent Saturday and Sunday walking in the valleys above Arties.  It&#8217;s great walking all day knowing that at the end of the day you can have a nice hot shower, a cool beer and a great meal back at your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parador.es\/ingles\/85clicks\/viel\/vielpaning.htm\">hotel<\/a>.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThis first picture shows Dugly (on the left) and Matt with the Restanca reservoir behind them and the valley leading down to Arties.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/media\/Vielha\/DuglyMattValley_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Vielha\/DuglyMattValley_t.jpg\" alt=\"Dugly and Matt above the Restanca reservoir\" title=\"Dugly and Matt above Restanca\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/media\/Vielha\/VielhaWaterfall_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Vielha\/VielhaWaterfall_t.jpg\" alt=\"A waterfall at the Restanca reservoir\" title=\"View across the reservoir\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After a lunch of bread, cheese and gnarly Spanish sausage (the thing looked like you could club large animals to death with it) at Restanca we walked up to the next lake, which I&#8217;ve forgotten the name of.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/media\/Vielha\/Vielha03_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Vielha\/Vielha03_t.jpg\" alt=\"The next lake up from Restanca\" title=\"The next lake up from Restanca\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The walk around this lake was a bit up and down and was followed by a very steep ascent, which showed us just how unfit and out of practice we are.  The scene at the top was beautiful, so we stopped to admire it and have a bit of a rest.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/media\/Vielha\/MattOnRock_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Vielha\/MattOnRock_t.jpg\" alt=\"The view after our ascent\" title=\"The view after our ascent, Matt on a rock\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We walked around the small lakes, down the valley at the back of the picture to the right and back round from Restanca.  From there it wasn&#8217;t far to the car.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday we were feeling a little bit stiff but set off up a different valley from the same car park.  This one also featured a picturesque reservoir, but fewer steep ascents.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/media\/Vielha\/Vielha06_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Vielha\/Vielha06_t.jpg\" alt=\"Sunday's reservoir\" title=\"Sunday's reservoir, from the col at the end of the valley\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/media\/Vielha\/MattRock_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Vielha\/MattRock_t.jpg\" alt=\"Matt sitting on a rock again\" title=\"Matt sitting on a rock again\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/media\/Vielha\/MeRock2_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Vielha\/MeRock2_t.jpg\" alt=\"Me standing on a rock\" title=\"Me standing on a rock at the top of the col\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the whole it was a very relaxing weekend, even if my legs still aren&#8217;t quite back to normal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent last weekend in the Pyrenees with a couple of friends and of course my digital camera. We flew to Barcelona, hired a car and drove north to the town of Vielha, right up in the mountains. The view definitely makes a nice change from the tedious flatness of eastern England. We spent Saturday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}