Ceret - so many baby goats and the archeological museum

Mum and Dad drove to the bird watching place in Spain today and Aimee and I wanted to walk, having spent most of yesterday in the car.

Wheel barrow full of vine prunings. We walked the Ventous trail and it was sunny and
warm enough to take off our jackets.

Canigou with still more fresh snow. I sat in my usual spot and sketched a grapevine
on watercolour paper in order to make a painted thank you card for Margie, our landlady.
Meanwhile this was the scene that was the subject of Aimee's first ever sketch (she
hasn't let me see it)

Please excuse the crooked photo but I wanted to show the yellow, dandelion like
flowers that were between the grape vines. Still no leaves on the vines.

Pedro Felix. How do I know his name? There was a sign on the gate with his name
and a list of things he could be fed, like carrote, salade, pommes de terre. I think
the owners must have been concerned that people walking on the trail were feeding him
things that were bad for him.

The horse in with the goats

There are so many baby goats in the enclosure now that you can't look anywhere without gasping at their cuteness. More babies than mothers (must have been some twins).

They were making short work of piles of olive tree branches.

Such cute little horns.

I know, I know, too many goat pictures. This is the last.

This was a tiny trickle last time I walked this way, still getting runoff from
the big rains.

We walked 5km in total and felt a well deserved glass of wine at Le Pablo was in order. Sat in the sun with our deux vin rouge and then headed home to make lunch. Unfortunately we had to pass a crepe restaurant and it didn't take much discussion to decide to lunch there. Seat in the sun, shared nordique crepe (smoked salmon and melted cheese), two more glasses of red wine, shared caramel and sea salt crepe, two café crème, it doesn't get much better than that.

The archeological museum in this building was open for the first time, since we
got here, so Aimee and I decided to give it a try.

There were no English pamphlets or English signage so we struggled with a couple of displays regarding neolothic burial chambers in the area and a large exhibit of pre Columbian pottery and fabrics. It was quite small and I had hoped for more information on the history of Ceret, oh well.

There was a model of the fortified town of Ceret.

Not some weird sculpture. Its looking up the circular staircase in the turret
part of the museum.