A quiet week as planned, in the mountains, in a cave ! We are at 1,200 meters, nearly 4,000 ft in old money, and for the Manxies that is almost twice the height of Snaefell.
We have been relaxing and not doing very much, a shopping to trip into Tejeda only 14km away but because of the roads takes 30mins to drive. The roads are stunning and newly tarmaced, just relatively narrow and very windy (in both senses of the word – bloody English language! (Rog))
The general grocery shopping option was the small local Spar, but thankfully it had everything we needed. Then had a nice lunch out in a restaurant called “ La Casa d’Almendras“, they also had a pastry counter, so it would have been rude not to buy a pastry or two for the rest of the week!
We have also managed a couple of walks, one down the valley and up the other side on the path, we can see from the cave, and one around the block, which sounds easy until you remember we are staying in a hole in the side of a cliff, therefore the walk was literally around the block of rock/mountain, therefore it was down the valley again and keep turning right until we got back home, about 7km of mainly steep (up or down) gravel and rock footpath. But worth the effort a stunning walk, especially through the blossom covered Almond trees in the gorge. The only people we saw were a group of 5, all of a certain age, wearing a lot of bright new shiny walking gear, we hope they know what they are doing and where they are going. They each had a GPS tracker with them, if they know how to use them.
Travurple 