Our guesthouse here (run by the wonderfully named family Plank) is over 600 years old. It has fantastic creaky floorboards, and a big winding staircase that in the 24 hours we’ve been here I’ve already almost fallen down twice. The trouble is, as you’re walking down it you get distracted by all the dead wildlife mounted on the walls. Skulls of all manner of strange mountain animals, stags’ horns, stuffed owls… It’s a wonder there’s anything left on the mountains at all.

The mountains themselves form a fantastic backdrop to the city, which itself is pretty ancient. The age of the place where we’re staying certainly doesn’t make it an anomaly, as all the streets around here seem to be well into several hundred years old. It’s all highly religious, too, as many of them have religious icons painted on the walls, and our guesthouse is absolutely packed with crucifixes. And not small ones, either - these are big church-sized examples, about a third to half life size.

We’re here for a few days, so plan on heading up the mountains to walk. Good job I bough new hiking boots before leaving home.

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