25th June

Oh dear!  Might have tried too hard to empty the Sangria bottle last night.  Needed to stay in bed a little longer today until my head feels better.  This morning light is so strong!  While it is hard to sleep in we are blessed with another crystal clear view of the mountains.   We opted out of the usual morning walk and made a joint decision not to drive to Serraduy to eat dinner at the Michellen rated restaurant as planned last night.  As it turned out we had to rush to Graus to get more supplies before the shops shut at 1pm.  That’s how slow our morning was.  We are eating up all the leftovers now as tomorrow we move on to Madrid.  Each day as we head off out of town we have been dropping our rubbish in the bins and it gets embarrassing when all the bottles smash so loudly.  We keep thinking the locals must understand we are’ the Australians’, a rare thing here in Juseu.  We spent the afternoon either on the bed, in the rock room or in the garden room.  All positions offered cool, horizontal options in the heat of the day.  I did try twice today to get in to the church with its very special ceiling but locating the ‘key’ is too difficult as none of the locals speak any English although they do try to be helpful.  Including the lovely gentleman pictured below who was so pleased when we eventually established I was not a Hollander but an Australian.  Apparently my pronunciation of ‘llave’ (Spanish for key) isn’t even close.   

In the evening Weip and Kees joined us on our porch for drinks.  They have had a lovely break for a few days on the coast with their 10yr old son Milan.  We shared all our recent experiences; lost luggage, ant invasion in the kitchen, bird observations, visits to local towns in the region and explained how the ladder came to be in the rock room.  Eric and Sandy are now playing a very competitive game of Yatzee so I might just finish my blog.