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    Guided Brandy from the US for a day last week. Beautiful hot day when we started. Over the first hill and we heard thunder in the distance. Up on the plateau we just caught the edge of the rain and took refuge in one of the many old stone shelters we have here. Towards the end of the ride as we headed back towards the car the weather cleared again and we finished in sunshine. The car meanwhile, despite never being more than a few km's away from us, saw no rain at all. Such is the weather in the mountains!
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    Saw this sight a few times over the years...... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7mt6AKKhq4
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    Grant & Carol climbing to the top of the Partara....another nice afternoon of guiding....
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    I'm busy translating our Spanish Viability Study into English . . . . It's not easy, because it's important to get it right, plus I have to add little notes explaining bits that Spanish people just take for granted. It's a bit like where on here I would say "I rode in The Cradle" but to someone not on the Hub I would have to say "I rode in The Cradle of Humankind, which lies west of Jo'burg and got it's name because a very old skeleton was found there" I'm fitting it in between working / guiding / sleeping . . . . .
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    Seasonal working in Spain: The weather here is starting to cool down a bit now as we head towards the end of Summer. I've been working at the campsite for 6hrs a day, 7 days a week for nearly 5 months now and then MTB guiding in the afternoons or evenings whenever the opportunity arises. It's a lot of work but we have to earn it while we can. The campsite shuts at the end of September - it will take a few days to close it all down and then it'll just be a few days of maintenance during the off-season. I'll continue MTB guiding and start working with local farmers, including our neighbour Ramon, when they need me. . . .
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    Thunderstorms up in the mountains as seen from Santa Maria de Buil on yesterdays guiding ride. . . .
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    Guiding this week with Grant & Carol from New Zealand. Yesterday we did one of my Techy XC routes, today Zona Zero Route 7. . . . Grant is on a beautiful Bronson . . . They did Jo'burg to Sea this year and enjoyed it.
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    We've been researching Private Investment online. It's a bit of a mine-field, but Andrea ("Wendy") has found several sites promoting "Angel Investors" that we need to read through . . . .
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    This weekend, in fact starting last Thursday, it is "Fiesta Weekend" in Boltaña. There are street parties, bands in the evening and discos all night.... Typically there's a band on stage between 8pm and 10pm, then everything stops for a few hours for supper, then at 1am the dancing starts up again until 6am. They do this for 4 days straight. I say "they" because sadly I couldn't even if I wanted to! Zzzzzz Tonight at midnight is the "end of weekend" firework show . . . we'll see if we can stay up that late and watch it. Thankfully, because work for us has to carry on, all the party noise is some distance away from our rented apartment. The same thing goes for Guaso village where our Project is - the little Plaza is far enough away not to disturb us too much when they have their "all night parties" over their Fiesta weekend in early August.
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    I'm not sure I'd have remembered to watch it "week by week" but in one go it was worth watching.
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    We've just watched all 10 episodes of Series 1 in about a week. Easy to watch and enjoyable.
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    Going through the process of answering questions from potential investors, preparing & sending supporting documents to them and generally giving our whole Business Plan a good thinking over . . . and I'm happy to say that we're good. Our plan IS sound. We DO live in an amazing and popular place and we HAVE got some great ideas moving forward. Sometimes after you've uprooted yourself, moved country and pretty much "started again" you can have doubts about what exactly you were thinking when you started.... but we're fine. Everything we've planned and thought through still looks good! A nice feeling to have on a Monday morning . . . . :-)
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    I spoke to Ramon the friendly farmer a couple of days ago about using a little piece of his land down by the river to grow our own Salads & Veggies. He has two vegetable gardens himself - one up at the house in Guaso and one down by the Rio Ara. Ours will be next to his so that we can help each other when necessary. Looking forward to growing lots of stuff next year. Everything they grow tastes so nice :-)
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    For seconds only. I don't know how accurate FR SW is but . . . .
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    I always say that the best time to do your own "repairs" is a week before a 100 odd Km race. It's also the best time to try out a brand new pair of cycling shoes I expect. :-)
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    Landing in a field with the gear down wouldn't give you any particular advantage would it? You'd lose speed quicker due to drag I imagine, and the gear would snap off first chance it got anyway. The engines were going to eat dirt either way, if they weren't already destroyed due to the original bird ingestion?
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    The break is racing against itself now, trying to shed any dead weight. The gap is back up to 1.06
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    The Vuelta a Burgos is on tv right now. Day 3 of a 5 day race south west of Pamplona. https://www.vueltaburgos.com/es/ DD were doing well today but Movistar are now leading the peloton and are chasing down the break which had less than a minutes lead with 26 km to go. There seem to be a couple of DD riders off the back.
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    Sadly I can report that yesterday searchers found the body of the missing man, Jesus. He was found some distance away from the path he was supposed to be on. As yet no details of what happened / how he ended up there have emerged. It's not the result anyone was hoping for. Our condolences go to his family. :-(
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    Climbing up the singletrack on Zona Zero Route 18 between the villages of Margurgued and Guaso you come across this skull . . . .
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    Hit the ground hard! Interesting analysis. Training was lacking but also the pilot had "issues"
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    aaaah bad luck man!
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    I've left JNB so many times, always with a window seat. I know the view off by heart. Bit homesick watching that . . . .
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    The track that runs alongside the Rio Ara between Boltaña and Ainsa. I rarely see more than the odd jogger or occasionally some older people walking along here. More often than not I see no one. Ainsa old town is up on he hill and behind it the Pyrenees. . . . .
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    The track that runs alongside the Rio Ara between Boltaña and Ainsa. I rarely see more than the odd jogger or occasionally some older people walking along here. More often than not I see no one. Ainsa old town is up on he hill and behind it the Pyrenees. . . . .
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