Day 12 - My blog is dead

So what happened? I started my blog with a lot of enthusiasm but soon forgot about it... I must have dissapointed hordes of fans, just like J. K. Rowling with the Deathly Hallows (Author´s Note: I don´t read her books, had to google this title)

But what matters is that I am back, back in full strength. Or at least that is what I´d like to think.

This weekend I did something different, I went Caveing with a couple of friends, one of which belongs to a Speleology club. The cave was near Burgos, at 300 Kms from Madrid or so, near a town called Belorado.

We arrived at Belorado late, at around 5pm, the reason being that the caves have a river that supplies the water to the small town by it and therefore no one is allowed inside until it gets dark. That, at least is what we were initially told. As it turned out, we could have got in during the day. Not that it really matters, in a cave you don´t really get to see the daylight anyway.

We arrived at the cave at around 6:30 pm and got all the kit on, which basically consisted of a pair of rainboots, overalls (you have to crawl in mud for a bit), gloves, a harness (there are places where you need to ascend and descend using ropes) and a helmet with a light (through a flame generated by the reaction of water and a rock, I know not the name in English, sorry).

We entered the cave crawling and soon reached a section in which you could easily stand up. A few minutes later we were walking inside the cave, walking in the river, in the direction opposite to the water flow. At both our sides vertical walls that reached into the darkness of the ceiling, of which we couldn´t see the end.

The place was amazing! There were plenty of formations, both stalactites and stalagmites of different sizes and shapes. Although the cave only had 1.8 Kms we were inside for over 6 hours and took over 300 pictures.

Definetely something worth doing. Pablo (the other colleague who came over) and me are already considering joining the club.