We felt very lucky to reconnect in Palencia with the organizers, as well as some of the speakers and delegates we had met at previous IUFRO conferences, and it was a pleasure to make some new friends, too. Having lunch with Mike Wingfield, Julio Casero and Jorge García before the congress began was a real privilege.
We were also blessed with a visit to our exhibition and our presentation to the Congress from Juan Barbé of Eskulan paper studio and Papyriphera who made a big detour from his trip Gijón to Bilbao and who had sent me the Mitsumata paper I printed along with Curly Dock paper we made together in Zizurkil in 2013. Always a pleasure to talk about fibres!