Pea Soup and Trotters

Not impressed with trotters

There is one reason, and one reason only, why I would love driving through a pea soup fog over gigantic mountains and that is because it obscures the view of the sheer 2500 metre drop at the side of the van as we traverse the Pyrenees. Apart from that we can live without it.
We’ve made it safely across in vile weather to a sunny spot near Andorra, La Seu D’Urgell. It’s a pleasant town with restaurants that don’t even think about opening until 8pm which we discovered as we wandered aimlessly around from 7pm looking at shuttered shopfronts in the vain hope of finding something vaguely food-shaped.

At last - food!

All ended well as Mr Fluffy got his long-desired paella and pulpo (octopus for the uninitiated). Hugo had to wait in the van as dogs are perro-non-grata around town. This morning was filled with thrills as we discovered an Olympic kayaking park just outside town. It was all I could do to stop the fluffy one from diving into a spare kayak and getting his mackerel rod out. Thankfully he saw sense and was content with a slow amble along a canal path instead.

An odd wheel

No kayaking today

Today we are arrived in Cervera which we discovered is a witchy place with an Avenida de los Brujas (witches) and has an annual witch festival at the end of August. The main church has a Black Madonna (one of our favourite things) but, as most churches so far on the trip, was closed so we couldn’t pay our respects.

After

Before

We were excited to find a menu del dia for 9.50 euro so we entered the establishment and proceeded to order some choices from the Catalan language only menu. You can imagine my thrill when I received a plate of two pig’s feet smiling up at me. Mr Fluffy kindly offered to swap his lovely fish for these hideous feet as I was about to throw up in my handbag. He says he won’t be ordering them again but Hugo (who was allowed in today) really loved them. - almost as much as he enjoyed semi-attacking the waitress.
Tomorrow a place of Gaudi.
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