Time change

Spring has arrived and the increasingly warmer days are luring people to the Pyrenees and to Sobrarbe. For all those making a trip up this weekend, be warned that the time goes forward one hour early Sunday morning (26 March). This time I'm advising everybody of the fact due to last year's experience: I arrived at 10 am to say goodbye to my guests' who quite frankly thought I had forgotten about them. Needless to say, they thought I was one hour late!

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Speedy Connection

Hooray! For those of us who have settled in rural locations, modern technologies have finally arrived to make living and working condition much, much better in the Chistau Valley. The answer: Internet Rural or ADSL. It has been a long wait but finally my connection has been upgraded from 56Kbps to 100,0Mbps. The difference is amazing, it's like having a new lease of life: rapid surfing, online newspapers, itunes etc... I don't know myself!

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Wild boar

The hunting season has nearly come to an end. Nevertheless, the last outing during a recent cold spell proved very successful: 4 wild boar or "jabali". A good catch for the farmers/hunters in San Juan as the area is so widespread that many outings reap no return. Hence, the preference for hunting after a snowfall as the boar are more easily tracked.

Having recently seen and smelt (strong) two boar close up (kept as pets in La Miana on the way to Tella), I was surprised by the appearance of the ones in the picture; the farmers/hunters had certainly done a very clean job in removing the hair.

Traditionally, boar is served in a variety of ways, from the more popular stews to roasts, to air-cured hams and to fresh or air-dried sausages.

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