Still in La Garrofa

Well, we're still here. The weather has been good for the last few days and the location is ideal so we can't really see much point in moving. We're going to set off after the weekend for the journey back to Calais. Rather than retrace our route here we are thinking of travelling back via Granada, Cordoba, Toledo, Madrid and then to San Sebastián and on to Bordeaux. We have to be in Calais for the 18th so we should have plenty of time for a leisurely journey if we set off on Monday. We'll miss this place and the people we've met but I suspect we'll call in to see them again in January. There was an "international darts tournament"here on the campsite last night. I went out in the first round to a Belgian lady who had only ever played darts once in her life before!! She then went on to defeat her husband before being knocked out by a Welshman who last in the final to an Englishman. All good fun.

Not much else happening really. We caught the bus to Aquadulce yesterday, wandered about a bit and caught the bus back! Today we felt we needed some exercise so got the walking boots on and set off up the dried riverbed from the beach here and walked through gorges and small valleys for a couple of hours. At midday! It was hard walking over pebbles and rocks and hot and windless. Not much growing apart from thorn bushes, mountain thyme and one acacia tree. There were some ramshackle sheds and enclosures where until a few years ago a few goat herders lived. Apparently the police moved them out when they started tapping into the aqueduct for water!

I'm off now to buy some more wifi. Which I have now got, obviously.