Clarabides - Gias

Panoramic view from the summit

My second excursion with the local mountain club aimed at two 3000m peaks in the Pyrenees: Clarabide and Gias. An incredible number of 20 hikers, mostly of an age of about 50 years participated in the excursion and Saturday at 9 am we initiated our trip to Benasc. After lunch we parked the cars on a near parking and about 2 to 3 hours later arrived at the mountain hut of Estós.

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Herräng 2012 Week 3 Lindy Hop Intermediate 1

The second part of our holidays, we spent at a dance camp in the beautiful Swedish village of Herräng, again, but since our flight from London didn't arrive in Arlanda until half past 10 in the evening, we didn't go there directly. Instead, we went to Johannes' flat. Johannes being the German guy living in Stockholm, who saved our Herräng vacations in 2011 and who by now is a friend of us. Johannes even paid us a visit last September and this year's trip to Stockholm should have meant to meet again. Unfortunately things didn't turn out according to plans, given that Johannes had to go to Germany without further ado a day earlier. He kindly left us his flat for a night, however, which was the first of a series of aids he's offered us this year.

Herräng (top), Uppsala and Stockholm

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Rainy London

River Thames

During the second week of July, Elisabet participated in a course aimed at singers who want to learn more about their throat's physiology, that was offered by the Royal Academy of Music in London. For me, too, a good opportunity to visit the UK.
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Vallibierna - 3067m

Panoramic view from the dam of Escales

The last weekend of June, Xavi and me had planned to do some mountaineering in the Balaitús area, but unfortunately he suffered a minor injury, only two days before we had planned to go there. Since I already had made up my mind, I at least wanted to do a less demanding mountain tour and decided to climb two of the most easily accessible 3000m peaks of the Pyrenees - Tuca de Vallibierna and Tuca de les Culebres.

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