Garrucha to Cuevas de Almanzora; 20 km

Today was a not so interesting day. It was all on tarmac or sidewalk, mainly through agricultural land (with lots of plastic and other litter), or along a huge canal. We had expected to walk beside a winding river! The canal had no water in it. We did see cars driving through it from one side to the other. To make that possible special openings are made in the sides of the canal.

And of course (we missed them already) two dogs in FRONT of a gate instead of behind them, viciously barking and coming at us. We tried to find some stones to throw at them but there were not any! We did as if and the dogs cowardly stopped but when we raised ourself, they came at us again. While slowly walking on and keeping an eye on them, a car driver helped us, he positioned his car between us and the dogs and honked his horn, that gave us time to make some distance. So all ends well.

We walked through Vera village halfway the day, where they still had a bull ring with a matador statue in front of it. It was warm today, 22 degrees. The wind picked up again in the afternoon and was stronger than yesterday. Because we changed direction the wind was now in our face where up till now the wind was in our back. And that makes a difference i must confess…

I didn’t make much pictures during the walk, not much to be seen. Most of the pictures i made today are from the roof of the place we stayed, which is apparently a former palace that is 200 years old and has a lot of interesting details. The views from the rooftop were magnificent.

We started at 8.30 sharp this morning and at 15.30 we arrived in Cuevas del Almanzora. It is nice to have some time to relax and wash some clothes. We departed from the coast and are now going inland.
~G

Accomodation:
El Palacete, beautiful old building, 50 euro for a room for two. Although we did like the matrasses of Hostal Manolo more!Read more