tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7841399249557747138.post3305690290533919465..comments2024-03-27T17:51:48.017+00:00Comments on John Hayes Walks: Favours on the E4John Hayeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03351092993224063387noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7841399249557747138.post-16270146342667942972012-07-12T20:51:27.639+01:002012-07-12T20:51:27.639+01:00Just back from our summer vacation in southern Fra...Just back from our summer vacation in southern France. I follow your steps often so I am updated about your trips and walks.<br />As you can see in my Website I use to go to walk the GRs and mountain treks on a monthly basis.<br />I would be happy to walk with you again whenever and wherever you like.<br />My best wishes for both of you.Juan Holgadohttp://www.jaholgado.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7841399249557747138.post-75863375217096550342012-07-12T12:31:00.413+01:002012-07-12T12:31:00.413+01:00Hi Juan
Nice to hear from you again and I hope th...Hi Juan<br /><br />Nice to hear from you again and I hope that you and your family are well. Just back from a trip to Ireland and getting ready for a trip to the Vercors next week - would be nice to get some decent weather, non stop rain here. Very much looking forward to another trip to Spain, perhaps we could coordinate some plans for early next year.<br /><br />Christine sends her loveJohn Hayeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03351092993224063387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7841399249557747138.post-86623283125207672262012-07-12T12:13:35.074+01:002012-07-12T12:13:35.074+01:00Dear friends. You are quite right in your apreciat...Dear friends. You are quite right in your apreciations on the spanish family ties that are really strong. But I would like to mention that rural life is quite diferent than city life and indeed you would not find such friendly help and understanding in urban places than in the small villages.<br />Anyway I should thank you for visiting Spain and for your interest in our habits and way of living.<br />Greetings from a spanish walker.Juan Holgadohttp://www.jaholgado.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7841399249557747138.post-51777294050096197642012-07-01T14:36:52.477+01:002012-07-01T14:36:52.477+01:00Thanks for the comment John
Things were bad when ...Thanks for the comment John<br /><br />Things were bad when I went through Spain but they seem to have got even worse since - the unemployment rates are just unbelieveable, 50 per cent for the under 25s, but somehow people remain friendly and cheerful. I do think family ties are stronger in Spain than in the UK and perhaps people look after each other a bit more. Despite the economy being even worse there than here, there is lots to admire and even envy.John Hayeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03351092993224063387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7841399249557747138.post-78714150996427806972012-07-01T11:57:31.015+01:002012-07-01T11:57:31.015+01:00Interested in your latest post with regards 'f...Interested in your latest post with regards 'favours' - especially from the humblest of people who are often quite poor themselves.<br />On my latest trip on the GR7 in Spain I noticed a lot more men out of work. I had all the 'usual' lifts to villages off route with people going out of their way to get me somewhere useful. None of the drivers had work.<br />In Culla a lady in a bar arranged for me to sleep free of charge in the village hall [rather spartan] In the evening wandering around got chatting in my limited Spanish to a man in the street, when I said where I was staying he took me to his sister's house and got her to give me [a perfect stranger] a bed! So ended up up eating and drinking with them for the evening, with a home video of the local vultures. Cooked breakfast the next morning and a good send off - they wanted nothing in payment.[Left money in the room for them!!]<br />The man of the house had lost his job but was re-cultivating the family's fields that had lain barren for years. <br />Would all that happen in Britain?<br />Do find the Spanish delightful but you do have to keep asking and exploring all possibilities.<br />happy traveling.John Proudhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04211319572480512868noreply@blogger.com