Arcos is a pretty small place, not that it isn't worth a few days, but we get itchy feet. So yesterday, after breakfast we pointed the car east and did a loop through the beautiful country in Andalucia's interior. The landscape is covered in velvety green right now as the winter wheat comes up and cows and windmills dot the rolling hills. There are some beautiful mountains so we stopped in Bosque, a mountain town where the permits for hiking are distributed, and grabbed a map. We decided on a trail that goes straight up a mountain called Torreon, about 1700 meters high and it was awesome, a great little butt-kicker of a hill. We made it up the 5km in about an hour and a half, through a pygmy forest of some unknown tree that
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