Almería to San José

Despite the weather drama in most of Spain, today we had only light rain, but heavy wind. It is not possible to walk along the coast in this wind, so we proceeded with our plan to take the bus ahead two stages to San Jose. We didn’t mind missing the city/hard surface part of the walk, or the endless agribusinesses growing fruit and veg under massive expanses of plastic. We see lots of migrant workers from Africa, and are glad that the Spanish government has recently decided to regularized almost 500,000 of them. They are a crucial part of the Spanish economy and bring food to people’s tables. Plus it is the right thing to do on humanitarian grounds.

We arrived in San Jose to find an almost deserted holiday town, but there are a couple of places open to feed and ‘water’ us. We are staying at one of the few albergues on the Argar (pictured). The wind has been fierce, but not nearly as fierce as the wind in Iceland last June. At its worst, we could stand up without a struggle, and it has considerably eased since then. We even had patches of sunshine, and a rainbow. ~Debi

Tomorrow we will go south to Cabo de Gata, doing part of the route we skipped today.

Accomodation
Albergue San José: reel sheets, blankets and showers. 17 euro pp ; phone: 950 380 353. If no reaction try 650 280 356 (owner).Read more