Pyrenees and Pamplona

 Parador de Bielza, Spain--The view from the window is grand!  We're high enough that these is visible snow melting into waterfalls.  We are here till tomorrow.  We had drinks last night in the warm weather (for here) and heard the water flowing to the river over the rocks at the base of the hill whenever we woke.  

Getting here we stopped in Pamplona.  Yes, the bulls do run down this street in July before they go to the bullfight and their end.  Specially raised, they have never seen crowds before the fight and some say they are terrified as well as physically hurt.  Some cities in Spain ban the fights.  Not Pamplona.

It's also the city of Hemingway, who lived on the main plaza for a time and drank his way through the Cafe Iruña looking over it.  He is "memorialized" by many souvenir shops.  

Along the way we stopped in a small village, Ainsa, before the main road heads up through the canyons on its way to France.  Ainsa is a fortified village ruin.  We added it to our list of visited ruined forts.

Getting here meant about an hour on roads that were barely big enough for our tour bus as they wound through the Pyrenees.  A couple of times we had to wait for other vehicles to pass before many a hairpin turn.