On our way, the first stop

The morning was like all others really, I set the alarm and walked the dogs for a couple of hours as they were to be in the car for most of the day. When I got back we cleaned (again), it’s amazing, we gutted the house yesterday but we still found dog hairs today. Anyway, it was a quick clean and tidy up,throwing out old food etc. We set off at 11.30 and stopped to drop the laundry for Nafeica. We decided to take the coast road, it was expensive on the tolls but much easier for us.

 

We drove along right past Malaga and Nerja, we stopped for lunch and stumbled across a retail park place with burger king, bowling alley etc so we had lunch in a restaurant there the Susan drove the rest of the way.

The new road ends and it is necessary to drive along the old coast road until the new Toll road is finished. The coastline here is stunning, very like Italy, great views. We’ve been here before but I can’t remember it. Near to Salobrenia we left the coast and headed north into the Sierra Nevada Mountains, we had a weeks holiday here a few years back so we knew the area. We drove up past Orgeva and into the mountains.

This is part of the new road being built, quite a feat of engineering.

We carried on getting higher and higher, we’re heading for the highest campsite in Spain, hopefully it will be cooler.

This is Orgeva from the mountains.

Susan waiting for me to finish taking pictures.

We can hardly see the dogs.

We found the campsite easily enough, the first thing we spotted was a lovely Border Collie, very rare in Spain, it is owned by the camp site people and is a 3 year old bitch. It wasn’t very friendly to our dogs, maybe when it is off the lead!

We set the tent up and get organised, it taes about an hour but I am sure we’ll get faster. The weather is good, cloudy and cool – but not too cool! Being very high up at 1600 meters above sea level makes the weather changeable, at the moment is it fine but who knows!

We set off for a walk into Trevelez, we thought we had been there before but we didn’t recognise it  so we must be thinking of  somewhere else.  The woman in the camp site had said that there was a path that was a good walk into town but not to do it in the dark. We see why, it was about 110cm wide with a river on one side and a steep drop on the other.

We walked round Trevelez for a while then had a drink in a grotty bar where they tried to sell me out of date coke! We walked back along the road, much safer! We’ll eat in the camp site tonight.

There is an internet connection at the site but it looks a bit basic, not sure if I can post this tonight or if it will have to wait.