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Published: September 29th 2022
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Today we have nothing planned. The two other major sites of interest here are minor and can be visited on our way out tomorrow, plus the swimming lake that we passed on our journey here that is dried up and looks like it might be more of a mud pack experience than a pleasant swim. It’s very pleasant at the pension. We have a nice covered terrace and a swimming pool and it’s all ours as there are no other guests here right now!
We are going to chill out all day and then go down to the restaurant in El Chorro later. Our host Julie has telephoned ahead to reserve us a good table.
The day is overcast and there’s a brisk wind up here. I wouldn’t call it cold but this morning I have added my thin fleece for the first time this trip.
We have spent the whole day lazing. Ian has finished the thick paperback (ni surprises there!), we’ve played a few card games, we’ve admired the little garden and I have been for a swim.
A campervan has just arrived - they have a couple of nice hook up pitches here as
well as the pension accommodation. Hmmm, not sure I’d have the confidence to drive a camper up here. Apparently they also had to have a long argument with the man at the barrier in town in order to be let through. It went much along the same lines as our experience yesterday, even though Julie and Glynn keep driving down there to tell him to let their guests through. I’d be pretty annoyed if this was my business. Two vans were supposed to arrive last night but they didn’t turn up, maybe tgey we’re also turned away?
This evening we drive down to the hotel in El Chorro - the food there is supposed to be excellent. It’s 6pm so the man has gone home and the barrier dismantled. Mind you, it’s been windy today and the lightweight red and white barriers are all over the place. They are supposed to be filled with sand but they were obviously too busy annoying motorists to be bothered with a small health and safety issue like whether a plastic bollard is going to be whipped up and smash into your vehicle whilst driving a precariously narrow, huge potholed, gravel road with
a steep drop of god knows how many hundred metres!
We arrive at the restaurant. It’s fairly empty so we have our pick of places. Although the sun is still up, we choose a table on the balcony of the outside terrace. It won’t be long till sunset. A very cheerful waitress takes our order. Ian is having fish in a tomato sauce with salad. I go with the recommendation of pork shank with potatoes and red cabbage. It’s all delicious. And huge! We don’t have room for dessert. I might have crammed in the orange cake - the local speciality - but they haven’t any today! Oh dear, I’ll have to come back next year!
Back at the casa we meet the owners of the campervan. It’s a 7m affair. You’re very brave to come up here with that I say, we were terrified bringing the car up. Yes I was terrified too, he tells me. Might not have booked it if I’d known what the road was like! Still it’s a really lovely pension, we both agree. Oh and not terrifying as doing that walk either, he says. Oh we did that yesterday…it’s really not as
bad as it looks! :-)
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