Montes de Malaga (Wild camping night 1)

Day 208.

It didn’t take long upon arriving at Bournemouth airport to realise that not only did we have no real plans for the next 3 months but that we also had no idea where we would be sleeping in just 12 hours time. 

Just 3 hours later we had secured our bargain rental car, raided decathlon for all the camping essentials, stocked up on plenty of Spains finest red and tucked into plenty of jamon for lunch. We had even secured most of the above in Spanish (with the help of google translate..for now).

Leaving Malaga we headed straight up into the hills of the national park, our best bet at some free camping and some good trekking, Limbster in particular has found some amazing treks she can’t wait to get too, I hope they’re worth the wait.

It wouldn’t be a new trip after all if Limbster didn’t injure herself at least once, but who would have guessed it would be on the first day or the first trek! She handled it well mind, as always, calm and cool, and has only mentioned A&E once or twice.

Bad things come in 3’s mind and 2 and 3 certainly followed quickly, duff stove and no corkscrew didn’t bode well for dinner or wine.

Determined to ease limbsters pain a corked bottle using the knife would have to do, ending the evening with a perfect camping spot over the andulusian mountains, it might have been in a car park but we’ll take it for night 1…Lue lisää