Walked to Spanish class in the rain this week! Opened the classroom door onto an enormous puddle (drains for rain not a strong point). Continuing to enjoy our lessons, but we think it would be much easier if they didn't have male & female words (it seems to work ok in English!)
Later in the week the sunshine returned so we enjoyed our usual walks & cycles. Returning past the Caves of Nerja with Sue & Graham E. we stopped to watch 'Black squirrels' chasing up & down trees. We are not sure if they are really Beech Martens, not squirrels, but the photo in Sue E's new wildlife book is inconclusive. All that day we had heard rocket fireworks being let off in Maro as part of their festival.
One evening we watched the September storm damage being repaired on our local Torrecilla Beach. Earthmovers piled sand from below the tide line back higher up the beach. They also carefully reinstated a palm tree & a beach hut which had been knocked over.
At the end on the week we cycled east to Cerro Gordo, locked our bikes & walked out to the headland where there is a completely intact Watch Tower. This is part of a chain of towers built all along the coast as lookouts & safe refuges for the locals from marauding pirates in days gone by. From here we could see at least 3 more towers, wonderful coast views, & snow still visible on the western Sierra Nevada, but clear on the summit of Maroma (2000m). As we left the tower to return to the bikes, two male horned ibex passed close to us on the footpath.
The next day we tried to walk from Maro Pueblo (village) to Maro Torre (tower) thru' the local crops, but got a bit lost so spent several hours sunbathing on Maro beach instead!
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- Sus and Mike
- In our retirement, cycling Europe (and elsewhere) before we get too old. This blog now has records of our tours of the UK (2007), Western Europe (2007/8), Australia (2008/9), UK to Hungary (2011), the Celtic Tour (spring 2012) and Pacific West Coast tour (Aug to Nov 2012).