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Rio Verde
... Green River) valley and back up again. The walk starts at around 1100m and descends to about 800m. Needless to say, the hardest part is slogging your way back up to the Carretera at the end! There are fine views across towards Navachica (the top still in cloud) during the early part of the walk and then a very steep descent, on a superbly constructed footpath into the Barranco de las Chortales. At the bottom of this, we arrive at ...
Collado de los Civiles
... Just before the path branches away for the final climb to the Collado de los Civiles, there's an excellent sheltered spot for an early (first) lunch break, before we tackle the stiff climb upwards to the Col. Having completed this, it's time for the second lunch break! Despite the clouds, the views are excellent - Maroma behind us and Lucero just to our left are both covered, but in front of us, we can still manage to see Cerro Machos, Cadena and Cisne, plus ...
Cerro de las Forosa
... on an excellent series of maps which are displayed in the village's main square, the Plaza de Espana - and copies of the same maps are also attached to little noticeboards placed at strategic intervals along the route. This is probably a good thing as I've never been able to find a copy of these maps in any shop around here, so there's no chance of carrying one with you!
The start of the climb to Cerro de las Forosa is an incredibly steep stairway through some ...
Mi casa es su casa
Today we docked in Motril, our first of three Spanish ports. While the southern Spanish coast is beautiful and home to many vacation homes, celebrity retreats, etc, we set out on a more "authentic" tour experience, heading into the Andalusian countryside. The roads are akin to most other mountain experiences, winding and narrow. Our guide assured us not to worry as our bigger bus meant we were on the correct side of the road. We stopped several times to ...
Furthest point
... at 10:00pm! I say 'almost' because it was empty inside when we arrived and an hour later it was full, including two families with young kids/babies and a hen party. Apparently the Andalucians are second only to the Madridlenos in how late they eat dinner.
We had a drink back at the campsite bar and to our amazement we were still served tapas - at 12:00am! We didn't want to see another plate by then. ...
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