Mojácar: Around town

Mojácar pueblo (as opposed to Mojácar Playa, the tourist-dominated beach strip 3 km below) is well-worth taking a day to explore. Its labyrinthine maze of streets dates from Muslim times. Around every corner you see a flower-bedecked Indalo, the symbol of Mojácar, and recently, of all Almeria. The original drawing of a man with outstretched arms holding a rainbow was found in Paleolithic caves nearby. There is also a fine little museum here. A school group headed to it passed under our windows this morning, so we waited until afternoon to see the house lovingly restored by a Russian couple who moved here. They filled us in on details of the town’s history. For example, in Muslim times the town would have looked very different because whitewash was not used then.

Back home, it was time for washing and mending clothes. I’m sure glad I brought along a rectangle of self- stick nylon tenacious tape since I have now managed to twice rip the fabric on the knees of my only pair of pants!Read more