Blogs from Urra, Andalusia, Spain, Europe

The morning we though breakfast was at 8.45 but charlies friend came in and told us it was at 7.45 so we had to go…in order to get lunch as well. So forced ourselves awake. Wrote up summary that morning sitting outside next to the annex, was very pleasant. And then when I finished sian was still stressing…but nearly finished. I packed up, gald I did so cos we had to do a clean up of the whole place afterwards including sweeping the floor of our rooms and putting everything back in place. And then handed in our work at 1.00 pm-such a relief! Was a time to distress afterwards, everyone then seemed to have nothing to do and was bored! Think the 2 weeks made us become geology robots! Well me and Cheryl played cards, ... read more

Basically walked to area D, sat under a tree quite close to the path and started inking our notes and maps. Cos we did everything already just spread out the massive 22 locations we took yesterday in area B into that day’s. steven and fathi came along and sat, they were agueing as to whether to continue working or not. Me and Cheryl were just working…not caring much about their bickering. I coloured in literally my whole map. CNB, FL and Clara came along and spotted us, didn’t say anything to us except ask whether we were hurt or anything…I guess he couldn’t say anything about our map today cos it was all coloured in, and also they couldn’t give us any help on the last 2 days. So was cool we finished that so we ... read more

Explored area D-the long linear hill. The moment we got off the coach we were kinda lost! Tried asking FL where to go to get to area D-he seemed really vague about it. so we walked through the village of Los Ramirez but this stupid brown dog came out barking and chased us…we didn’t run but it was annoying cos we had to walk across people’s farmland which was even worse than walking through their concrete path-STUPID DOG!!!! So we ended up doing a detour towards the mountains in A and then going around to area D that way. It was the most energy wasting thing ever-just cos of the stupid dog. We got there in the end, and got to the white path, saw the faulted gneiss blocks where we recorded their dip and strike. ... read more

Day 2 of mapping. Me and Cheryl decided to do C. boy was it boring-alllll limestone!! And we really had to wee-so we found this big nest looking thing which seemed to provide good shelter hehe. We went across the whole high elevation area, and ,et Nick and Clara, FL obviously started pointing us in the direction where we could see echinoids and bryozoan fossils…but we didn’t go. We found a way across to the higher mountains across the area by going behind a hill. And once we were there we were like ‘ok crap, how do we get down?’ and we had to resort to going down a very steep hill where there were loads of prickly plants and cheryl’s ankle was real bad. Saw THG which was bit of a relief…going down the same ... read more

Saturday, and still more geology work…this time within the Nijar basin looking at Miocene and quaternary sediments, looking at sedimentary beds and their relationships. Fossil lover was so excited cos Time History Guy found a really large 15 cm long clam fossil-kept on taking photos of it! THG was also glad to fina fossil since he stated that he rarely found fossils. THG was explaining loads of stuff to us though, and it was all cool. As usual RG was going up this slope and told us to go up to see the onlapping due to transgression of Miocene beds. Was still a bit confusing though….there’s something about the way he explains-seem to not get it when he explains….particularly confusing when Philippa in the end ‘spiel’ said it was sea level fall instead of transgression as ... read more