Is Soria's land dry and cold
Spring passes by the bold hills and mountains,
green pastures, ashen ridges,
leaving among the scented grass
its minute white daisies


We toured the south of Soria's province yesterday. We drove off the road more than 130 Kms, to add to the few miles we needed to drive to Carabias, where we started and Riaza, where we ended.

We left at 9:30 AM and were back by pitch night. More than 12 hours of comradeship and excitement.

We will not give too much details about our exact whereabouts -tree huggers and their accomplices have too much power in Spain these days to deny us of our civil liberties. We had a great day which we finished driving through the Little Rubicon in the opposite direction to the day that we discovered it.

The bad news is that Lipstick broke down on the motorway to Madrid just before the Somosierra tunnel so that it had to be recovered (a broken service belt tensor).

All the piccies are here: http://picasaweb.google.com/mortinson3/Maderuelo