Saturday. Christmas Eve at Nico and Arjee’s rental house in Cornudella de Montsant. A nice BBQ in the living room’s fireplace.










Sunday. Derzou finishes Boys don’t cry (25m, 7C) at Ca la Isabel sector. We meet Lowie Lamberechts and his Croatian girlfriend Maya. He finishes La bestiola (20m, 8A+) at Can Melafots sector.
Lowie does is last Bachelor year ‘political science’ in Barcelona as an Erasmus student. He brought his books with him for the coming exams, climbing and study at the rocks.

Tuesday. I finishes El prado del rey (30m, 7B+) and I try the route La ardilla roja (32m, 7C) at El Pati sector.









Wednesday. Easy climbing at Grau dels Masets Esquerra. A sector with beautiful 6C’s and 7A’s.

Rest day today, together we pamper ourselves with some cakes and connection to the World Wide Web.

Note: during Christmas Holiday many people from all over the world come to Siurana, it’s the best time of the year. Abond and Ting have a guesthouse in Yangshou (Rockabond inn), contacts for our next destination are made. Of course the Belgians are also well represented. Many world-class climbers end their competition season with rock climbing, such as Japanese Sachi Amma, Mina Markovic (SLO), Gabriele Moroni (IT), Enzo Oddo (F) who climbed La Rambla Original (40m, 9A+) this week, …