Where's Bertie? He's still at the Aire in Higuera.
Weather: Showers, some prolonged and with some low cloud occasionally enveloping the village.
Not much to report today. It's rained quite a bit and we've spent most of the day indoors.
Our one outing was to look around the village this morning. It's a bigger place than we'd thought, with a population of around 1400.
Village street.
After walking through the main square, we headed out the other side of the village to find the supermarket. It felt like we'd walked into a closed shop, with it being deserted and barely lit. No tomatoes were to be had, which was the only item we needed, so we left again, without having seen a single person - shopper or employee.
A different route was taken back to the village square, where we paused for café y tostada.
We know that we're freaks (we weren't dressed in lycra today, but I was still the only female present and we still stand out as foreign), but we exacerbated the freakish beahviour today by choosing to sit outside. Why in the world would someone go and sit outside on such a damp, cool day - we're sure that what everyone was wondering.
By the attention we got, we were clearly considered odd for eating/drinking outside. Apparently not odd, though, to stand outside for a cigarette
The fact that we were drinking coffee rather than Anis put us in the minority, both today and on Saturday, but isn't outright unusual.
The real rain held off just long enough for us to finish our Segundo Desayuno, but it then rained on us as we explored the rest of the village - missing (as we now know from the information sign next to the Aire) two of the Points of Interest. We did, however, find another small sells-everything shop where they had some remarkably old, shrivelled or mouldy fruit and veg, but two types of perfectly fresh tomatoes, so that mission was accomplished.
Even though we were getting quite wet by now, we paused outside this property for sale for quite some time and debated an impulsive move to Higuera.
Arriving back at the Aire, we had to wonder if it was something we'd said...
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Conrad: The map I posted yesterday was taken from Strava (which I did so that I could handily have the stats under the map), and it wouldn't have been more detailed if I'd used the same method to illustrate a route in the UK. That said, we have previously used Spanish IGN (OS equivalent) mapping and it's not a patch on the clarity of what we have in the UK. At the moment, we're using Gaia to navigate, which gives maps of this standard (this is the same route as I shared yesterday):
The detail is fine for our purposes. If only the accuracy was greater!
Weather: Showers, some prolonged and with some low cloud occasionally enveloping the village.
Not much to report today. It's rained quite a bit and we've spent most of the day indoors.
Our one outing was to look around the village this morning. It's a bigger place than we'd thought, with a population of around 1400.
After walking through the main square, we headed out the other side of the village to find the supermarket. It felt like we'd walked into a closed shop, with it being deserted and barely lit. No tomatoes were to be had, which was the only item we needed, so we left again, without having seen a single person - shopper or employee.
A different route was taken back to the village square, where we paused for café y tostada.
We know that we're freaks (we weren't dressed in lycra today, but I was still the only female present and we still stand out as foreign), but we exacerbated the freakish beahviour today by choosing to sit outside. Why in the world would someone go and sit outside on such a damp, cool day - we're sure that what everyone was wondering.
The fact that we were drinking coffee rather than Anis put us in the minority, both today and on Saturday, but isn't outright unusual.
The real rain held off just long enough for us to finish our Segundo Desayuno, but it then rained on us as we explored the rest of the village - missing (as we now know from the information sign next to the Aire) two of the Points of Interest. We did, however, find another small sells-everything shop where they had some remarkably old, shrivelled or mouldy fruit and veg, but two types of perfectly fresh tomatoes, so that mission was accomplished.
Arriving back at the Aire, we had to wonder if it was something we'd said...
Conrad: The map I posted yesterday was taken from Strava (which I did so that I could handily have the stats under the map), and it wouldn't have been more detailed if I'd used the same method to illustrate a route in the UK. That said, we have previously used Spanish IGN (OS equivalent) mapping and it's not a patch on the clarity of what we have in the UK. At the moment, we're using Gaia to navigate, which gives maps of this standard (this is the same route as I shared yesterday):
The detail is fine for our purposes. If only the accuracy was greater!
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