Where's Bertie? Still at the Aire in Elorrio.
Weather? Glorious morning, with bits of high cloud gathering this afternoon. Warm.
The final shower of yesterday's wet spell passed through at around 7.30 this morning. By the time we got up it was a gloriously sunny day - perfect for a walk a bit longer than yesterday's.
It wasn't a spectacular walk, particularly as a bit over half of it was on roads (albeit tiny, quiet ones), but it was pleasant enough and we enjoyed views of the ruggedness of the nearby hills, and admired some typical Basque Country properties:
In a repetition of yesterday's post-walk activity (happily, without wet clothes this time around) tea/coffee was had at the bar in town, with me running back to Bertie whilst Mick ordered, so as to grab the Tablet to take advantage of the wifi to download some more newspapers.
Lunch, writing a catch-up post for the other blog (gayleybird.blogspot.com) and doing the daily newspaper puzzles took up a few hours, allowing the shops to close for, and reopen from, their afternoon break. Then we went on a shopping spree, back to the Aladin's cave we found yesterday, via a bit of loitering outside of our favourite bar for more wifi (I've been having trouble with Google Maps, which I use *a lot* when we're away, and needed to try again to fix it).
Aladin's cave provided us, at very reasonable prices, with a new frying pan (careless storage when we packed Bertie for the very first time did serious damage to the non-stick coating of the old one), a lid for it and a new flask (we have a collection of flasks in Bertie; our smallest was just fine when we used it on Sunday, but when I filled it yesterday the outer skin became very hot, telling me that the essential vacuum element of it was no more; it was a stainless steel flask and I'd not dropped or banged it, so who knows how that came to pass). I admired the yarns again...
We finished a day with a nice sunset silhouetting the pointy lump of rock to Bertie's starboard. I really ought to have taken the trouble to walk twenty metres along the path to place myself beyond the lamppost which dominates the shot!
Weather? Glorious morning, with bits of high cloud gathering this afternoon. Warm.
The final shower of yesterday's wet spell passed through at around 7.30 this morning. By the time we got up it was a gloriously sunny day - perfect for a walk a bit longer than yesterday's.
It wasn't a spectacular walk, particularly as a bit over half of it was on roads (albeit tiny, quiet ones), but it was pleasant enough and we enjoyed views of the ruggedness of the nearby hills, and admired some typical Basque Country properties:
In a repetition of yesterday's post-walk activity (happily, without wet clothes this time around) tea/coffee was had at the bar in town, with me running back to Bertie whilst Mick ordered, so as to grab the Tablet to take advantage of the wifi to download some more newspapers.
Lunch, writing a catch-up post for the other blog (gayleybird.blogspot.com) and doing the daily newspaper puzzles took up a few hours, allowing the shops to close for, and reopen from, their afternoon break. Then we went on a shopping spree, back to the Aladin's cave we found yesterday, via a bit of loitering outside of our favourite bar for more wifi (I've been having trouble with Google Maps, which I use *a lot* when we're away, and needed to try again to fix it).
Aladin's cave provided us, at very reasonable prices, with a new frying pan (careless storage when we packed Bertie for the very first time did serious damage to the non-stick coating of the old one), a lid for it and a new flask (we have a collection of flasks in Bertie; our smallest was just fine when we used it on Sunday, but when I filled it yesterday the outer skin became very hot, telling me that the essential vacuum element of it was no more; it was a stainless steel flask and I'd not dropped or banged it, so who knows how that came to pass). I admired the yarns again...
We finished a day with a nice sunset silhouetting the pointy lump of rock to Bertie's starboard. I really ought to have taken the trouble to walk twenty metres along the path to place myself beyond the lamppost which dominates the shot!
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