Storks at Alfaro
I hope they duck when the bells ring…
We spent about a week actually in Spain, the rest of the time we were either travelling in France or at the Quilt Expos in Lyon. We found plenty of good places to eat along the way, revisiting one of our favourite restaurants, in Navarra, for a birthday meal for Ruth while we were in Spain. There are two birds we associate with Spain – the storks, of which many seem to nest on the Iglesia de San Miquel in Alfaro, and house-martins, which were also present here, although not in these particular pictures. There are so many storks based at the church that finding a place to nest can be a quite a problem!
Some residents have a grandstand view of the storks.
We got back Saturday evening, having driven directly from Lyon – normally we notice how much more traffic there is when we cross the border from France into Germany. But as Germany was playing in the World Cup in the late afternoon, there was only light traffic on the last leg of the journey.
The main reason for the trip was, of course, to visit the two quilting exhibitions in Lyon, (Ruth will be putting up some photos of both exhibitions over on sew2speak) – both were very different from each other and each was interesting in it’s own right. We spent about 6 hours in the larger of the two, and a full morning in the other on the following day – not bad given that on the first day we decided to walk to and from the Quilt Expo – 90 minutes in each direction. I don’t think our feet have forgiven us yet!
June 28th, 2006 at 13:06:59
storks! we used to have them in our lil’ town too… 30 years ago! :-/
June 28th, 2006 at 20:06:08
Yes – super birds! The young storks looked nearly big enough to fly, but were still in the nests when we were there.