A lot of Snow and a Big Pig

Made our way through some spectacular scenery this morning. The roads are good but very bendy and slow, especially when there’s a giant pig out for a walk!

We arrived in Potes at lunchtime..it’s a very attractive little town with lots of stone bridges crossing the river that runs through it. We had a walk around but Guy had bigger, better ideas in his head.

We drove another thirty minutes up a dead end road to a place called Fuente Dé. From here we got the teleférico or cable car to the top of the mountains. It took us 900metres up a sheer cliff face in around 40 seconds!

At the top, it was snow, snow and more snow. Being a non-skier, I have never been in such deep snow – if you ventured off the trodden path it was easy to sink well above the knees. Thank God for the ten pound crampon things we bought yesterday – and the extra pole. As Guy said, Bambi on ice suddenly became Scott of the Antarctic 🤣🤣It was so amazingly quiet up there, just the vultures circling overhead and a few wild goat type things in the distance. We were warned several times to return by five or we’d be stuck up there, so we were back by four.

Did a small walk at the bottom accompanied by a big white dog that apparently belongs to one of the cable car operators, although he tried to go home with every other person in the car park. Tucked up for night now, trying to plan a route around the spaghetti mountain roads for tomorrow.