Most days we've been at 50%, some, thankfully few at 25%. Yesterday the doctors were in and the path screened off so hopes were high.
This morning we were at 75% so the effort of catching the tram was lessened somewhat but tonight, joy and bliss, the journey through the park was completed entirely on a full compliment of functioning escalators.
All four are now restored to full health and we are at 100%
To celebrate this momentous highlight we paused with breath to spare at the top and entered the Valor shop. Always a desperate thing to do, memories of last years tasting still fresh in the mind (and stomach) and not to be repeated but a few bars, Puro Almendras at least, a Negro Almendras? OK, then but only if carefully dispensed at infrequent intervals.
Valor chocolate is good. Seriously good and it's made here and they have their own shop and there are always people making themselves ill inside, just like we did.
This alone was insufficient to adequately express our joy and something a little more celebratory was thought appropriate, but what?
On to Consum to replenish the €1/litre San Miguel when our guest, quite overwhelmed by events suggested that we forgo the €1.49 Reservas Red and go for a Cava. Thus we now wait for the bottle to chill, which for nearly as much as the combined value of the rucksack full of San Miguel I'd have expected it to be chilled and delivered on a bed of ice in it's own box, not slung in a rucksack like common Spanish cerveza.
No matter, patience is much in evidence here (unlike the patience, or absence thereof as evidenced by my sister) so we wait for Cava to chill, Carbonara to cook whilst wallowing in the knowledge that tomorrow's efforts are likely to benefit from 100% a free ride up through the park.
Effortless is how we like it.
After three weeks of substandard standards we deserve it, too!
Here's a look at the Valor counter in the entrance, far nicer than an escalator moving in the dark, eh?
Art become indulgence .......
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