Tuesday, 31 May 2005

Picos de Europa

We drove towards the cable car terminus at Fuete De but it was still miserable and we could not even see the end of the cable so after a coffe in the terminus building we drove back down the mountain road with a big tourist bus right on my tail. Tried to loose it by diverting up to a monastery but the bus followed still on my tail, 1700m up a 16% hill and the van loosing power rapidly, just made it.

We walked from the car park to the old hermitage where there was a panoramic view all around with Potes and our site 600ft down below. The sun was breaking through by now so stopped and had a picnic and watched the snow capped mountains appear through the clouds. Spectacular.

Lots of photos with eagles and vultures circling overhead. A most fortuitous diversion!

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