Climbing Bears

The next day, the first full day of our holiday, was a fine day (shorts and t-shirt weather for those who wear clothes), but there was a bit of cloud cover, so we decided if would be a good day for exploring the interior of the island, to see what Menorca is really like, outside of the resorts.

We'd only gone a short distance when we found a great climbing wall.


As you will know from earlier posts, bears love climbing and cannot simply walk past a climbing opportunity. It calls out to us and begs to be climbed. Bears are also quite competitive - in a friendly way - so Yorkie and I are always trying to arrive at the top before the other. On this occasion, as you can see, Yorkie was ahead of me (I blend in rather well with the rock), but he did start off a few seconds ahead (that's my excuse anyway). He did spend so long admiring the view at this half way point, that I thought I was going to be able to sneak past un-noticed ... but then I sneezed and gave the game away.

It was only about 10 minutes more walk, until we had a surprise find. We came to a row of huge monoliths (also suitable for climbing). As Menorca is an archaelogical treasure trove and contains lots of talayotic remains (prehistoric if that doesn't mean anything to you) we assumed that these megaliths dated from this period.


The ancient nature of these stones left us with a bit of a dilemma. Would it be disrespectful and anti conservation, to have a climb. We thought not, after all we are so light and soft pawed, that we couldn't possibly do any damage, so up we went. This time the tables were turned and I stole a march on Yorkie - on a much more difficult climb I might add. This time it is Yorkie who is the more camouflaged, but he is there if you look bottom left.

What a great start to the walk. We were less than half an hour into it, with 2 great climbs under our belt. We we really looking forward to the rest of the day.

Lots of love George & Yorkie xxx