Hey all
Sorry ive been really slack with putting updates on the blog but a few to come now.
Well we have been in the gorge du tarn in france for 5 days from 10th -16th june. climbing and hiking there is amazing so many awsome long inspiring routes ive never seen 60-70metre single pitch routes tis a bit of a shock after rodellar as its super vert and technical on small holds.
In the middle of the valley is anorhter beautifull blue river. we been going down to every morning to eat breakfast, swim and let tala chase fish, its amazing to start the day like this in time for the shade on the crags at 3pm.
Theres a old village/ settlement over the river that looks so picturesque that it doesnt look real. see the photos below its like some kinda dolls house.
We did plan to stay there for a few weeks but we got kindly woken up at 1pm and told we could stay there anymore by the french police and fined a whopping 11 euros for the pleasure :) so we then headed off to venasque which is further east in the south of france by avignon.
On the way we stopped off in a free campsite in a little village. was a nice peacefull break from the driving and we met a french couple called John-paul and Silvie. they were really nice and spoke no english, we spoke no french but they Invited us to have a drink of Pastice. This lead on to a wine and beer then they produced cornettoes was a good evening which pretty much wqas like a continus game of chardes :)
Moving on from there we continued iur journey to venasque which is amazing its a little sandstone crag below a old village on a platoo. it was Sandstone so a totaly different style to what we have been used to. we had a few days climbing there but the weather was playing ball and got hotter and hotter till we were sweating sitting in the shade so this to was abanonded with the promis of comming back when its colder. Our road then lead us to ceuse which as somewhere around 1800m and east facing is in the shade from 2.30 and loads colder its so nice wake up in the glorious sunshine then hike uphill for a hour to the crag in shorts then get in the shade and get the down jackets out and climb in the cold. We have once again bumped into lots of our friends we have met in other parts of spain so again team england has inhabited a corner of the car park. Where were so high in the mountains here the sunsets are awsome so going up to the mini ceuse peak next to us to get some shots tonight if its good expect then soon :)
anywho thats enough for now speak soon
Si
Sorry ive been really slack with putting updates on the blog but a few to come now.
Well we have been in the gorge du tarn in france for 5 days from 10th -16th june. climbing and hiking there is amazing so many awsome long inspiring routes ive never seen 60-70metre single pitch routes tis a bit of a shock after rodellar as its super vert and technical on small holds.
In the middle of the valley is anorhter beautifull blue river. we been going down to every morning to eat breakfast, swim and let tala chase fish, its amazing to start the day like this in time for the shade on the crags at 3pm.
Theres a old village/ settlement over the river that looks so picturesque that it doesnt look real. see the photos below its like some kinda dolls house.
We did plan to stay there for a few weeks but we got kindly woken up at 1pm and told we could stay there anymore by the french police and fined a whopping 11 euros for the pleasure :) so we then headed off to venasque which is further east in the south of france by avignon.
On the way we stopped off in a free campsite in a little village. was a nice peacefull break from the driving and we met a french couple called John-paul and Silvie. they were really nice and spoke no english, we spoke no french but they Invited us to have a drink of Pastice. This lead on to a wine and beer then they produced cornettoes was a good evening which pretty much wqas like a continus game of chardes :)
Moving on from there we continued iur journey to venasque which is amazing its a little sandstone crag below a old village on a platoo. it was Sandstone so a totaly different style to what we have been used to. we had a few days climbing there but the weather was playing ball and got hotter and hotter till we were sweating sitting in the shade so this to was abanonded with the promis of comming back when its colder. Our road then lead us to ceuse which as somewhere around 1800m and east facing is in the shade from 2.30 and loads colder its so nice wake up in the glorious sunshine then hike uphill for a hour to the crag in shorts then get in the shade and get the down jackets out and climb in the cold. We have once again bumped into lots of our friends we have met in other parts of spain so again team england has inhabited a corner of the car park. Where were so high in the mountains here the sunsets are awsome so going up to the mini ceuse peak next to us to get some shots tonight if its good expect then soon :)
anywho thats enough for now speak soon
Si
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