No good trip overseas is complete without a visit to a local medical centre, so that was on the agenda for this morning.

First though, breakfast., complete with make your own Tomato bread.

After breakfast we headed to the nearby ish town of Solsana – about 20 minutes away. I have a skin abrasion (?) on my arm that I’m a bit worried about – I don’t want it to get infected so decided I should get it checked. Despite language barriers, the doctors and nurses were very friendly and helpful – and it was quick and easy to get in to the clinic. I got some antibiotic cream for it which will keep it safe until I get home – then I’ll get it checked up again at home. All good, glad I went to the doctors as I was a bit stressed about it.

We drove back to our accommodation after the doctors visit so I could tend to my arm and bandage it up etc

We saw the resident cats who we have named The Fabada Family. I think there are five of them in total. Some are more friendly than others. All are very cute.

We hadn’t really had lunch but it was so close to siesta time that we knew our chances of finding lunch anywhere were low. We decided to go for a drive to a town called Cardona. The nurse at the medical centre recommended it to us as that is where she lives. It has a castle and is about a 40 minute drive away.

So back down the mountain we go…

We stopped along the way on the huge bridge/dam wall that we have to drive over. People were bungee jumping from it. As you do.

We continued on to Cardona and drove up to the castle. Pretty cool castle. It has a hotel and restaurant in it as well.

We headed down in to the town after viewing the castle, we thought we would try our luck at getting a coffee – but it being siesta time in a small town we didn’t fancy our chances.

As we wandered the empty streets with roller shuttered shops we realised our coffee dream was over. We got back in the car and tried to leave the town. Except the town is a maze on the side of a mountain and GPS systems are not to be relied on. Top tip: do not turn down the tiny little side street that barely looks wide enough to walk down let alone drive down, even if the GPS says to.

After reversing out of a narrow alley way, we eventually figured out how to get out of the town.

Back at our accommodation we saw another Fabada Family member

For dinner we went back down the mountains AGAIN, back to the town of Solsana.

It’s a cute little town – our kind of pace. We didn’t really know where to go for dinner and nearly went to this random burger place on the outskirts of town. Luckily we didn’t because on further inspection we found this great looking place called Cal Poldo Xic. Their kitchen didn’t open until 8pm though so as we were a bit early we went for a wander around.

When dinner time came around we nabbed the last outdoor seats and planned to order too much food. Well, we didn’t plan to, we just wanted to try all the things. The staff were super friendly and helpful and recommended we didn’t order quite as much as we had planned. Shame, we really wanted the octopus.

But we got the local cured meats, the BEST tomato bread and an awesome burata salad. Everything was delicious and although it was quite a bit of food, we managed to eat it all.

We even managed to leave room for cheesecake dessert.

We really enjoyed this meal and restaurant and just chilling in the plaza. We didn’t want to leave! But it was getting late and we didn’t want to drive up the mountain in the dark, so we had to get going.

The drive back up the mountain was quite spectacular in the twilight. I’m gonna miss these mountains.

Back at our accommodation we were greeted by 2 members of the Fabada Family.

Steve drank the cider we bought in the Asturias region because we failed to drink any while we were there. I wanted to bring this bottle home, but I also didn’t want it to explode in my suitcase.