Monday, May 30, 2011

Sorry about that last post.  I got cut short because my time ran out at the hotel computer.  I haven´t had a chance to tell you all about Arco, Italy yet so I think I will start there.  I think Arco is my new favorite place in the whole world.  It was absolutely beautiful.  We picked up our little 2 door rental car (a Lancia Ypsilon) in Verona after a short train ride from Venice and drove through a crazy valley filled with vinyards and surrounded by dramatic huge mountains.  We stayed at an agriturisimo here and it was awesome.  We had a little kitchen and a great little balcony with an amazing view.  It was nice to take a break from eating out and make some food of our own.  The place we were staying even had some fruiting cherry trees out front so we took full advantage of that.  We spent a good chunk of our time climbing or trying to climb.  Finding a good crag proved to be harder than we expected, but we managed in the end.  Adam even fought a chain fence with the car and ended up winning with a little damage to the fence.  We drove away from that one pretty quick.  As quick as we could on the crazy narrow roads that is. The last day we were there was the craziest stormy weather.  It rained and hailed with spots of sun and then wind and rain and hail again.  it was fun to watch but cut short some of our climbing time.  (but adam did still drag me to a cave in the pouring rain so he could climb some of the steep and dry routes) 
    We are now in Mallorca after the crazy day of traveling I think I mentioned in the last post.  It is quite nice here.  The mix of people is pretty interesting though.  It seems to be a place for the old and retired and their families.  Not many people here our age.  We climbed here yesterday and today and had a little bit of beach time yesterday.  Apparently this beach is a topless beach, so that was a little uncomfrotable at first.  We saw lots of boobies, I kept mine in my bathing suit.  Today was pretty neat.  Adam got to deep water solo and I got to hang out on a beautiful beach and take some really cool pictures of him.  (deep water soloing is climbing without a rope over, you guessed it, deep water)  We forgot the camera today, but I promise the next post I will put up some pictures.  It rained for most of the afternoon today so we are doing the boring stuff like laundry and updating the blog.  Tomorrow another adventure!

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