El Salto de Roldán

Yesterday we drove to Huesca, to visit some friends. It was a beautiful sunny morning; until we approached Huesca, where it was like driving into a grey blanket. Nasty thick, wet fog. Typical of Huesca and Zaragoza. People often say to me: "Like in London, isn't it?" and I have to reply that I've never seen fog in England like we get here, London fog being a thing of the past.

Anyway, it cleared up during the day. In the afternoon we went with our friends to the "Salto de Roldán", a rock formation a short drive from the city. (short but very winding and narrow).I's the Sierra de Guara in the pre-Pyrenees, vertical columns of red-gold rock towering above the planes of the Hoya de Huesca. As in Cataluña a few weeks back, we could look out over the fog in the valley. On some distant ridges you could see windmills standing just clear of the fog. Geat crowds of raucus black birds which I think were jackdaws on the cliffs above us.
Spectacular.

No smoking!

As of 2nd January, smoking has been banned in Spain in all public places....bars, restaurants, hospital doorways, children's playgrounds etc. Poor smokers! Poor bar owners! Good for non-smokers, at last!
It's lovely going into bars and nobody's smoking; being able to eat a meal in a restaurant without smoke drifting over from another table.