We are still not out of the pandemic-won't be until there is an effective vaccine-but it's summertime and people are having holidays. Who can blame them? It's hot and we all need a bit of a change.
We decided to stay in our area, more of less. Escalona is a tiny village just beyond Ainsa, and it's a good place to stay between two places we wanted to visit; Pineta and Plan.
Pineta is a national park. You get there by going to the tiny village of Bielsa, where you do a U turn and climb up to the route to Pineta. You and a thousand or so other cars. There's plenty of parking space. Four euros for the day.
A short walk took us to this lovely waterfall. My goodness the water was cold!In the afternoon we took a rather long and tortuous drive to the Añísclo canyon. 
There were some amazing cliffs but we couldn't see most of them for the trees! I think you have to spend more time and climb up and down. Oh well.Our hotel was quite comfortable and the breakfast was good. (Hotel Cinca)The second day the plan was Plan. It's a village which is rather remote. It made itself famous in 1985 when depopulation was such that there weren't enough women, maybe they'd gone away to work. Anyway, following the idea of the Western film Westward the Women, there was an invitation for women to come and see if they could find their man there: "The caravan of Love". It was on national and international news! From a small ad in the newspaper: "Women between 20 and 40 wanted, for matrimony" 80 went to the village. Apparently from that 40 couples were formed, of which 17 were in Plan. We thought it was a pleasant place, but rather remote; you have to drive through various tunnels to get there.
Medical centreWe stopped at a place called Puen Pecador on the way to Chisten. There's a little walk along an easy path which takes you over the river Zinqueta on a 17th century stone bridge-hold onto your glasses! The drop from the parapet is 50 metres! All along the path are signs giving information about the different species of trees you can see there. And I found some lovely wild pinks
Then the last village along, Chistau. Small and remote, but with some pretty features.
A short walk took us to this lovely waterfall. My goodness the water was cold!In the afternoon we took a rather long and tortuous drive to the Añísclo canyon. 
There were some amazing cliffs but we couldn't see most of them for the trees! I think you have to spend more time and climb up and down. Oh well.Our hotel was quite comfortable and the breakfast was good. (Hotel Cinca)The second day the plan was Plan. It's a village which is rather remote. It made itself famous in 1985 when depopulation was such that there weren't enough women, maybe they'd gone away to work. Anyway, following the idea of the Western film Westward the Women, there was an invitation for women to come and see if they could find their man there: "The caravan of Love". It was on national and international news! From a small ad in the newspaper: "Women between 20 and 40 wanted, for matrimony" 80 went to the village. Apparently from that 40 couples were formed, of which 17 were in Plan. We thought it was a pleasant place, but rather remote; you have to drive through various tunnels to get there.
Lovely bignonias
Medical centreWe stopped at a place called Puen Pecador on the way to Chisten. There's a little walk along an easy path which takes you over the river Zinqueta on a 17th century stone bridge-hold onto your glasses! The drop from the parapet is 50 metres! All along the path are signs giving information about the different species of trees you can see there. And I found some lovely wild pinks
Then the last village along, Chistau. Small and remote, but with some pretty features.
A disused rural school
Four of these square towers
One of those traditional knockers.
