Our son-in-law Michael has now earned the reputation as the "one who loves driving forever on vacations". But, to his credit, even though we were doubtful as to the worth of driving such a long way to see mountains, he was right. We left Seville on Sunday morning and arrived in Cosgaya late in the afternoon. The weather wasn't all that great; in fact, it worsened - rain and some snow the next day. But we all wore as many layers of clothes as we could and persevered. These pictures in no way do justice to the beauty of this area of Spain.
This was the Hotel del Osos. Wonderful stay and very, very nice hosts.
The view in front of the hotel.
This is the actual town of Cosgaya. It felt like a step back in time to walk the windy roads through town. Apparently, they don't have many American tourists.
But we wandered through town several times.
We shopped, ate, took lots of pictures, saw the farmer's market.
Philip even managed to get a haircut. It turned out pretty good considering neither of these men understood the language of the other.
These were legs of ham hanging in a grocery story. Smoked? Every store, gas station, butchery, etc had these hanging there, ready to go. BTW, the ham served everywhere at every restaurant was delicious.
This was the first meal at which the glass of wine I ordered turned out to be a bottle. You order a meal, you get a bottle of wine. Needless to say, I had to enlist help.
Flan, the best ever!
Then we arrived at the REAL snow.
Beautiful drive further up into the mountains. Notice the big fences hanging off the mountain side to catch any boulders!!
Rode cable cars to the top .
The "boys" happy to play in the snow.
Four layers on my upper body and two below the waist.
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