Alcaucín

Alcaucín, 4 km - Apartamentos Cortijo Del Alcázar

We did our Christmas grocery shopping today because we have to carry all our food for the next three days into Pulgarín Bajo. It is not near a village or a store. That means we are eating lunchmeat, cheese, and bread for Christmas dinner!

From the little mountain casitas where we are staying we can see the U-shaped break in the mountains on the skyline that is called the Bouquete of Zafarraya. That is where we started walking yesterday, following a route to the east that brought us back to Alcaucin. We can also see the route we will be following tomorrow: it is an old railway line that starts at the Bouquete and continues straight west, the higher of the two lines we can see. Coincidentally, this is the same route we followed on our bikes in 2009 on the Ruta TransAndalus, the first time on this trip we have had such an overlap. After enjoying the view, l sat on a bench just above our casita and read a history of the Sephardic Jews in this area and their expulsion from Spain in 1492, The Forgetting River: A Modern Tale of Survival, Identity, and the Inquisition. It's by an American journalist who works to uncover her family’s long-buried Jewish ancestry in Spain.En savoir plus