Walk from Las Alquerias, Sierra Espuña

Yesterday we did a marked route in Sierra Espuña,  The walk starts near the restaurant Los Donceles and the Casa Forestal Las Alquerias. There is a board showing the route and the path is marked with yellow and white paint slashes.  It is 9.3 km long with some climb! and the recommended time is three and a half hours although we walked it in two and a quarter hours without rushing and taking time for photos.

I will put the photos on the walking routes page.

Camperstop Sierra Espuna

The neighbours´ Camperstop has now been reopened.  See "Camperstop" page for photos.

Via de la Plata

On 15 May we began to cycle the Via de la Plata.  This is a pilgrim route starting at the Cathedral in Seville and ending at the Cathedral in Santiago de Compostela, a total of approximately 1,000 km.

Last year we rode the Camino Frances and had very mixed weather conditions.  This year we were hoping for better.  We had been advised by a friend who lives in Seville not to do the ride as proposed in June, because he said it would be too hot for us, so we brought it forward two weeks.  We began the route in quite cold conditions which improved as the route continued north.

See The Via de la Plata page for a full description of our route.

Been very tardy

It is now April 2013 and  not put anything on the blog.  Not that we haven´t been doing things, but just not found the time to write on here.

We have done many walks and bike rides during the last months, but some of these have been revisits of past routes and so not something to write about.

We are going to ride the Via de la Plata towards the end of May so will try to take some good photos to put something on here then.  Before then I will try to add some more things on here.

More Explorations

We have done some more explorations in Sierra Espuña.  See Exploring Sierra Espuña page for photos.

More Walks

Since I last wrote we have been exploring using the new map of Sierra Espuña.  There are many paths on the map that we were not aware of and so we have been going out on foot and trying to find them.  Some of them are good and now make some better circular routes but some of them are non-existent.  I have put some photos on the People and Activities page.

We have also been out on our mountain bikes and tried out some new areas.   We rode from Casas Nuevas, on the north side of the park, and had a good track ride on a good sunny day.  Unfortunately, I don´t like to carry the camera when riding the bike and so no photos of that ride.

Exploring the GR

There is a GR (Grande Recorrido - Long distance route) that comes through Totana.  Although we have walked much of the route when it goes through Sierra Espuña, we have never explored the route coming out of Totana.  We decided to have a morning exploring the route.  The photos are below: