Adventure!

Today is a national holiday, El Pilar, and the trees are beginning to turn. We took our old, recently repaired Ford Escort to Zuriza in the western end of the Aragonese Pyrenees. It was lovely. The beech trees in the valley were beginning to change,

we walked for some time and then drove down to a place called Borda Arracona where we ate a delicious dinner of  "migas" - breadcrumbs fried in lamb suet (not for eating more than once a year) salad, then for some wild boar stew, lamb chops or leg of lamb, washed down with red wine. 

migas a la pastora

This was on the wall above my head.

Up to this point everything was great. Andrés, who had only drunk water started to drive home. It was about four o'clock. We were going along the picturesque Foz de Biniés when the car died. Rafa and Andrés went for help; there was no phone signal there at all. David put up the warning triangles and we waited. A car stopped and we asked the occupants to pick up the others and take them to somewhere with a phone. An hour later a towtruck arrived and rescued us. Rafa and Andrés had been taken to the Guardia Civil in Ansó, where they rang the insurance, who sent the tow truck and ordered a taxi which picked us all up from the Cuardia Civil and took us home. What a day! Monday, back to the Ford Garage.