Foreign Perspectives

We seemed to go directly from Autumn to Spring this year in the Pyrenees and the fruit trees have already started to flower as you can see.

Something of a disasterous year for the ski-ing, at least for us, as we’d have needed to go much farther than usual to find snow. Having said that, we’re incredibly lazy with the ski resorts and don’t look for anything much further than 90 minutes or so drive. If we were a bit more keen, we could have ventured further afield and went to one of the higher altitude resorts though going by the snow on Canigou, they had a much shorter than normal season too At the current rate of going, I don’t think we’ll ever finish off the heating oil that we bought two years ago! We’ve not had that much in the way of wind (usually the thing that really chills things down locally).Even the river running through the village has never filled up this year and we never had to take the long way round to avoid the flooded bridge. The local habit of building “bridges” that just skim over the top of the water makes for cheaper bridges but normally the result is complete chaos for perhaps 10 days or so during the Winter when you find what “route submersible” means.