DAY 12. June 9th. GUARRINZA TO SOMPORT

10 hour day. Up to valley of Aguas Tuertas. Lovely green, marshy valley. See sick, still isard and our first marmots. Climb again and encounter another diseased isard, this one mad and blind and torturing itself going round in circles. Sandy cries, HORRIBLE TO SEE. Climb to 1930m. Some snow, lots of rocks, hard work and hungry. Never-ending descent to lake where we had decided to eat. Make pasta and rain starts. Gradual descent through woods but miss turning to Candanchu and end up on the main road. Fortunate mistake as this leads us via the Camino to Somport where we have booked albergue “Ainsa”. €130 with room for 3, dinner, breakfast and beers. Hot water, bad mattress, bad food. Attractive setting, storms predicted for next day.

DAY 13. June 10th. SOMPORT TO CANFRANC

Dining room, Hostal Cabana, Canfranc.

Wake up late and weather looks dodgy so decide to go to Canfranc and rest. Nice walk down. Get to Canfranc Estación and have a bee in my bonnet about bar in Canfranc so we end up getting a bus down to there. Expected more, can’t find the bar I saw in the magazine. Hostal Cabana very good: friendly, warm and renovated. RAIN, RAIN, RAIN. Nice dinner, breakfast, get a picnic.