Le Puy-en-Velay

Here we are in Le Puy preparing for our walk. Havent done

very much site seeing as we have been busy trying to get our pack weights under control, not as successfully as Beth hoped but we will just have to see how it goes. We head off tomorrow to La Roche only 6km, will see how we go to there and then maybe on to the next town another 5km away. Cant wait to get amongst it all. We have our shells and our pilgram passports so we are all set. Wish us luck : )

Penguin in Le Puy

This is the most delicious pengiun we have ever eaten. Marzepan, chocolate,proffiterole-ish,chocolate liquer mousse on the inside...oh ma god

Friends in Colognac

We have just spent a bit over a week in the village of Colognac with some friends - Win and Aly and their 2 grandaughters Claire and Eloise. They have a beautifule home that overlooks a mountaineous landscape. Win made so many scrumpious meals. The band in the photo were awsome; especially the wash board man and the accordian man. This was at some local markets with lots of goats cheese and creamed honey stalls, we got amongst it!

Colognac part 2

These are some photos along some of the walks we went on during our time in Colognac. Most of them ended up in La Salle, a town below Colognac. Here there was a great cafe where we spent a fair amount of time drinking cafe cremes. Walking around this area was fantastic, it is so beautiful and flocks of sheep run around with bells and funny coloured pom poms on.

Colognac!

Some more views of our walks around Colognac. Ben is posing here in front of this spooky door that we didnt know where it led to trying to look like Hellboy.
Everywhere we went in Colognac there was water pouring out of the mountains, its crazy how much water there is here. For all the weather watchers: it has been very funny weather, most days it rains and is sunny in the same day. We always take our rain coats with us. Its not too cold though.

we make friends in Madrid!

Sevilla - flamenco and Alcazar gardens!

Here are a few phots of sevilla. Had an amazing time there seeing the Santa Semana processions, the Alcazar caslte and its beautiful gardens and the best freakin performance we have both ever seen, ever, this being Flamenco! Vale! For Ben it was on par with the Boat of Doom!

Tarifa Fun Part 2

Tarifa Fun

We had a lovely week in Tarifa exploring, painting and camping. We made some German friends called ferdi and Brigette who invited us into their caravan for strawberries and rose plus a Portugese slide show.

Recent Paintings by Ben & Beth

Granada

This is the view from the top of the tower at the Alhambra in Granada. It was intense! the gardens are amazing with little nooks and water features everywhere - mum and dad our garden better look like this one day : ) will add more photos when we have more time.

Granada and The Alhambra

Most of the good alhambra photos were taken on beth´s camera which we don´t have on hand

right now.