Ubrique

It rained all night, real torrential rain and high winds so we were not too positive about the day. However, after I had walked the dogs the weather seemed to be clearing so we decided to do the walk that we didn't manage yesterday. I made packed lunches and we set off to El Bosque.

This is Ubrique, it's quite a large town, much bigger than we remembered from our first (and last) trip 4 years ago. We drove thorough the town and out the other side and on to El Bosque.

The walk was from http://www.walkingworld.com/ and is no 2209 El Bosque to Benamahoma, the idea is that you walk one way and then get a taxi or bus back, we decided that we should make it worth while and walk both ways.

We parked in El Bosque, it's a lovely town and we remembered it from a visit a few years back. Before we started we had a coffee in Hostal Enrique, it looked a nice small hotel and there were loads of Dutch people there, for some reason they all had Polish registered cars. This flower was growing in the gardens, what is it anybody!

Susan and the dogs sitting having coffee before we set off.

The walk started at the Waterwheel, Ben and Dan were very interested in the water and not too interested in getting a photograph.

At the start of the walk we spotted a huge Fig Tree, these were almost ready and we picked one to see what it was like.

These flowers were out all over the sides of the path, we have no idea what they are so suggestions welcome.

The path follows the path of the river, due to the very high rain fall over the last few days it was running very fast, too fast to let the dogs swim so they were getting frustrated hearing the water but not being allowed in, we spent lots of time saying, No Dan, come here.

The dogs were on the lead for a while but they got off for around half of the walk.

In Benamahoma we had our picnic in the village square by the bus stop. We spotted a British family, Mother, Father and adult daughter, we knew they were British because Father had a bobble hat and brown trousers - that and the fact we heard them speaking!

We had a coffee in a local bar, the outside seating area was covered in odd things, many of them skulls, I guess they were left behind from what was eaten here last year.

We set off back the way we had come, we got back a lot quicker than we had on the outbound journey. Susan took this one of me on the bridge.

Eventually we found a spot where the river was not too fast and we let the dogs swim for a bit, of course we struggled to get them out after that.

Near the end of the walk we spotted these goats at the side fo the road, baby goats are very friendly and almost always come over for a clap. We fed them some grasses and then went on our way.

Our total distance was 10km.
On the return stretch we walked at an average of 4.3km p/h
We walked for 1.09 hours and stopped for 24 mins

Back in the village there was a load of horses tied up near the Bullring, I reckon the Farrier was in town and the locals were all waiting to get the horses shod. We finished with another coffee and then headed home.

On the way we stopped Lidlfor Gravy Granules but they didnt have any, typically there was only one checkout open and a big queue at it, this could have been Lidl anywhere.

The horse that was dead at the side of the road from last weeks blog was still there but no vultures this time.

A really good day, a good walk that we will do another time.