Table Talk

The next day we were well into our stride and set out on a much longer walk. We had to keep covering the ground to get round, so spent less time looking round and taking photos.

Our walk took in another great pre-historic village, this time that of Torre Trencada. It was even bigger than yesterday's, not only in terms of area, but also in terms of the size of the monuments. Have you ever seen a bigger picnic table than this one ...?


... or was it a fosillised giant mushroom?

Yorkie was shimmying up by the north east face to layout our high-rise picnic, while I took the picture. I was a bit surprised, therefore, when he came back down, complete with food parcel. I asked him what was wrong, and he told me his imagination had gone into overdrive while he was up on top the table, and he had had the awful thought that in pre-historic times this table (taula is the proper archaeological term) might have been used for sky burials.

I could see what Yorkie was getting at. With that rather gruesome possibility - however far-fetched - at the front of our minds, we simply had to go elsewhere to eat our picnic.

There was a delay while we recovered our appetites, and we used the time to read up about taulas in our guide book. It didn't really help to read that nobody knows what they were for, although the most popular suggestion is that they are idols, rather like totem poles. Secretly I thought Yorkie's idea of use for sky burials, was more plausible.

Lots of love, George & Yorkie xxx