Festa de la Castanyada

Halloween is still a new thing here. The traditional way of celebrating this time of the year revolves around roasting chestnuts the eve of All Saints Day. At school, my class (Blau's, 5th and 6th grade combined) dressed up and brought roasted chestnuts to the kindergarden kids. They were thrilled. Can you guess where am I? And yes, 5th and 6th grade combined is only 6 of us. It's a small school...

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Kids for Obama Abroad...

The Obama campaign has two volunteers in la Vall de Boí! Blau and Duna have been busy drawing Obama 08 signs.


After dinner, it was time to plaster Barruera with them. It was cold, but fun!

Happy Halloween!

We've been ghosted twice! Thanks to the Taylor family and to an anonymous ghoster (we have a couple of suspects...). It has been the highlight of the week.

Snow is here!

It snowed today!

First snow!

Last week, there was snow in the mountains nearby. Today we could see how it snowed up in the mountains, while it rained at the foot of the valley, where we are.

Trip to Madrid

A couple of weeks ago, we took a brief trip to Madrid. We visited lots of places, including Congress:
but our favorite place was the Palacio Real.

In the afternoon we went to El Prado, and took our time to draw one of Velázquez's Meninas:

Great hike on Saturday

We went up the mountain to a small hermitage and a nearby refuge. It was a long walk, but well worth it. The views were spectacular, and to top it off, some friends were at the refuge and were grilling some delicious food when we arrived. We did not eat our sandwiches...