Wednesday Walk 4th January

Wednesday Walk 4th January

By atrekinthesun   03:04   No comments:

We are back from our Christmas break, hope you all had a Merry Christmas and have a Happy New Year.

This week's walk is one of Pete & Karen's and is from Villanueva de Algaidas up to the windmills and is a circular walk of 14km starting in the layby outside the Dia supermarket near the football pitch. It's dog friendly and has one steep uphill section. Come and join us to get rid of some of those festive calories. Meet at the layby at 10:30.

Please let us know if you will be joining us. 

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Voyage of discovery

Voyage of discovery

By atrekinthesun   08:57   1 comment:

We decided to do a new walk today. Parking the car at a mystery place and started walking along a track, this soon disappeared and we were left walking through the olive groves.

It is that time of the year again and today was the final of Strictly Come Walking. The two finalists were Scoobie Deeming & Max Peers both seasoned walkers. The judges Cyril 'Revel' Deeming and Chris 'Darcy' Deeming also seasoned walkers. More of Strictly later.

Eventually, we joined a track that we had used before where we met up with three people with dogs, we thought that they were walkers, but they were collecting mushrooms. The dogs were quite big so we had to put Max on the lead, he still snapped at them though. Shortly afterwards we took a track off to the left which eventually ran out so we ended up skirting around the edge of a field upon a marked track, by which time we were in the high mountains.

One man and his friends dog

Spot the white walker

First siting of the Ibex 

They were on the move

Still keeping a close eye on us

Looking up at the top of the ridges we soon spotted two Ibex keeping an eye on us and the dogs, so we decided to put Scoobie on the lead as she had seen them too and she likes to chase them. After about two hours of walking, we decided to stop for lunch near a cave with great views.

I suddenly became very popular with the dogs over lunch, I wonder why?

View of La Maroma above the clouds

                                 

We then came across some sheep and goats luckily Scoobie was still on the lead or there would have been another chase but Max was really good and when we thought that he was going to chase them we just said no and he didn't, well done Max.

Later we walked through a campsite where some families where picnicking. Then we started the last five kilometres mostly downhill (apart from three hills) back to the car.

It is good to see some water in the streams

The weather was brilliant during the whole of the five hours on the voyage, a perfect day for walking. Unfortunately, although the walk was only about 14 kilometres, it would not be suitable for our walking group to do as it was too hard. When we got back to the car the Strictly judges decided that both dogs scored 9 points each, so it is now down to the public vote as to which one wins 2016 Strictly Come Walking. 

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Cycling tour of Torre del Mar

Cycling tour of Torre del Mar

By atrekinthesun   05:37   2 comments:

Decided to go to the coast in the motorhome with the bikes. Thought we would go for a nice easy ride as we were at the coast, no such luck, we went inland and almost 3  hours later we had done over 900 metres of ascent. Not going inland tomorrow. Had a nice meal with friends in Almayate.
Walked into Torre del Mar to get some food and have a look round the market. We were going for a bike ride in the afternoon but it was cancelled because it started raining.

The next day the sun came back out to play, so we went for an easier bike ride. From the campsite, we went along the coast towards Torrox about 14 kilometres had a coffee then cycled back. Went out to a new restaurant for us in Torre Del Mar in the evening, Restaurant Mi Mundo which very good.

Opps sorry wrong bike

Ready for the off

Coffee break half way round

One man and his dog

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Wednesday walk 7th December and Friday Christmas Dinner walk 16th December

Wednesday walk 7th December and Friday Christmas Dinner walk 16th December

By atrekinthesun   07:28   No comments:

Wednesday afternoon walk 7th December.

This walk will start in the Dehesa Hononero in Villanueva del Rosario up to Cueva de Toma y Bebe and back. It will take just over 3 hours with a height gain of almost 500 metres. A dog-friendly walk with some great views. Meet at Junction 7 on the A92M Paneque at 2pm.

Friday Christmas dinner walk 16th December.

The next Wednesday walk after that will be on Friday 16th December which will start at the bar next to the BP station on the a333 at 11 am for a 3 hour walk to Villanueva de Tapia and back followed by Christmas Dinner at the bar. Some road walking but mostly dog friendly (they cannot have Christmas dinner though). Please let us know if you are interested in this.

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