Monday, December 11, 2006

Weekend in the Pyrenees

Hello!!
How are you doing? I just got back to work. Working sucks, but getting back to work after 40 days off is not that bad haha. I thought that maybe there was going to be something new, something special, but as Guille said yesterday, "the bad thing about routine is that things are always the same"...

Last weekend was a LOOOONG weekend for the Kingdom (of Spain). On Wednesday was Constitution Day and on Friday was the Immaculate Conception Day, so if someone got a free Thursday, they could go out on holidays for 5 days. That was my case, and so was the case of some friends, and we all went to the Pyrenees. We went to a friend’s house there, and a beautiful valley near the ski resorts. The first plans were skiing and hiking, but after my injury and the fact that there wasn’t a lot of snow, we had to do relaxing plans.

I have to say that we had wonderful meals. Not only great restaurants (where you know you are paying great to eat great) but also small bars, or even a Colombian bar (yeah, we had to go to Jaca to eat in a Colombian restaurant). The best one was the restaurant called La Cocina Aragonesa. This restaurant, with a mark of 8/10 in the Gourmertour Guide, was located in the basement of a modest hotel. Believe me, the food wasn’t modest. I had a great garlic soup, and my second dish was a beautiful piece of hake with mushrooms and apple. The desert was a soufflé of chocolate and butter icecream, and the wine was a Viñas del Vero, from the Somontano region. Their weak points were the service, and the temperature of the soup, which wasn’t hot.
We had a great weekend, did lots of things, and had some unforgettable moments.

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