Portbou-Cadaques - el dia mas largo

The END is near...and this weekEND was the test of ENDurance.

With D-Dau I returned to the coastal trail Portbou-Cadaques. Mythical because of one day, long ago, Anen and I stepped out of the train at 5:30 AM to follow this trail.

Now, some 30k trail with a couple of heights to master. At the end Cadaques, in the middle a wonderful run.

Liquids immediately before, during and rigth after:
1 Coke
2 Coffees
3 Isotonics
3 Ice-teas
1 Beer+Sprite
and being in Spain: 1 horchata and 1 Gazpacho

Rannoch Moor / Jungfrau-4

Kate,

The book you sent us, "The Wild Places" by Robert MacFarlane left me speechless (not easy to do!). It descibes, with amazing insight, why nature strikes a cord in some people - and how it becomes central to life and to their life-long esthetics and passion.

It was a double impression becuase it brought back the word moor (Pàramo in Spanish) - a word that I've learned while reading my first English language books. It is in chapter four that the author crosses Rannoch Moor - and above I inclue a representative photo of the place.

An some extracts:

"A long ... tradition exists that considers all individuals as peregrini, in that all human life is seen as an exile"

"Ideas. like waves, hace fetches. They arrive with us having travelled vast distances, and their pasts are often invisible, or barely imaginable"

Camping/Jungfrau-5

Some 20 years ago my friend Clark saw me agonizing about the expense of a camping tent. This one was mounted for the first time ever on the roof of MayoPark drive.
20 years later, the tent exists, and was used to accomodate the first time ever camping trip of the contravocitos. Some instruction was needed to have them get it up!

Tarna-Dixence et al./Jungfrau-6

Gone are the vacations - and among the many encounters, and the late meals (compliment of the Spanish spirit), a bag of memories for the next months (years?).

Yes, I kept running and you can see the connexion Puerto de Tarna (Asturias - con Liki Fumei) and the Dixence Dam (Valais) as high points of the last few days. Reached by foot motion.