Seattle - Madrid - Almeria
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A walk along the Mediterranean and fresh fish for lunch made it a great first day in Spain. Although we arrived as planned, our hiking poles decided to have a little vacation of their own by spendingLue lisää
A walk along the Mediterranean and fresh fish for lunch made it a great first day in Spain. Although we arrived as planned, our hiking poles decided to have a little vacation of their own by spendingLue lisää
A spectacular five-star day due to the time we spent at one of my favorite places - a library, of course. A few steps up to the librarian’s desk and a few minutes wait while a book was retrievedLue lisää
Sunshine + Sunday = hundreds of people out enjoying the track today… cyclists, runners, dog-walkers, fishermen, and many more. Today’s track was all within Cabo de Gata Natural Park, so theLue lisää
We are taking it easy today and tomorrow to enjoy the geography of this very southeastern-most tip of Spain. It was only 6 km from San Miguel to our casa rural in a small group of six houses thatLue lisää
Today, Cabo de Gata is a spot quite conducive to contemplation and reflection with its repetitive sounds of surf and wind. It wouldn’t have been anywhere near as peaceful if you had happened to beLue lisää
This was our third time traversing the 12 km between the Cabo de Gata lighthouse and the village of San Jose, and we loved it just as much as the first two times (on our mountain bikes, riding on theLue lisää
It was only 9.3 km to Los Escullos today, but it’s a bit if a scramble to get up to the top of the pass, so we felt like we had a full day. The explanatory signposts along the way have all beenLue lisää
Today was a bit of a tough day. There was more scrambling up and down very steep, rocky hillsides than what we had anticipated. All of it was accompanied by gorgeous scenery, though. We had anLue lisää
When I was planning this walk, one of the parts, I was most looking forward to was the stage from Las Negras to Agua Amarga. I spent a lot of time looking at the topo map of this area and convincedLue lisää
It’s hard to say which was the highlight of the day: the fantastic breakfast included with our room at Hotel Family or the views from the track back towards Las Negras. We had read in a hiking blogLue lisää
Laurie Reynolds So glad you’re there. Not even missing hiking poles can ruin this day — your smile proves that. Fingers crossed the poles arrive soon and you can be well and truly walking.
Matkaaja great photos
Matkaaja Gorgeous!
Matkaaja MFelicitas--How beautiful to see the Mediterranean!!