Away in the Mountains

In a couple of days the Ark will be voyaging amidst these mountains, not, I hasten to add Mount Ararat but the Pyrenees above Argelès Gazost. We are off on our annual week at the summer camp `Vers les Cimes`. This is a Holiday camp which is owned, interestingly enough, by the Evangelical Church of Ortez. It was originally a most spartan collection of wooden huts but has been improved over the years into a modern an well-equipped holiday centre.  It is used through the summer months to provide holiday camps for children, but each year the opening week is the `Camp des Ainés` allowing older age group to spend a week.
  This is our sixth year at this camp near the village of Aucun and we look forward to it very much. Quite apart from the scenery, which is superb as you can see from the photos, we enjoy meeting friends from our and other churches for a week of good fellowship, mountain hiking and Christian instruction.  We are also thoroughly spoilt with tasty and copious meals which we dont have to cook! We are taking Laika and Jilly, Toffee is going to stay with Jaqui and our neighbour Ian will feed and keep an eye on the other Ark crew. We have a reciprocal arrangement to feed his Alsations when he is away.

So, if you don`t see us around on Facebook for a few days, you will know that we are hiking upwards, or drinking aperatifs, eating our heads off or just occasionally, listening to a talented Pasteur giving a new slant on the Good Book.
  Be back in a week or so!

     Bye for now!