Lecrin Valley Limpers

Dear limper What a wonderful day we had this last Sunday, when we went looking for mushrooms. After what had been a pretty poor week, with heavy cloud and a lot of wind, Sunday was a stunner whilst on the cool side, some of the mushrooms we were picking came ready frozen, the sky was a deep blue and the sun shone all day. Our destination for our forage was the area around Casa forestal el Robledal Alta near Alhama de Granada. And now that the Padul/ Otiva road is resurfaced the drive there is an absolute delight. When we arrived at the carpark it was obvious that we were not the only ones out for a free meal, as all over the forest you could see people with their heads down shuffling about intent on looking for the prized Niscalo. This particular mushroom is quite difficult to spot as it tends to grow under moss and pine needles and proved elusive to the Brits in the group, who had to settle for second best with Blewits. Meanwhile Quina had wondered off to another area of

Dear Limper Our planned walk this last Sunday, was supposed to be up above Cumbres Verde, which had been postponed from the week before due to low cloud. After a week of bright blue skies we were all looking forward to the rescheduled walk only to have our hopes dashed when we awoke Sunday morning after heavy over night rain, to find there was once again heavy grey skies over the Sierra Nevada Mountains. With the promise of sunshine down in the Happy Valley, we chose again to cancel the walk to Cumbre Verde which translates into Green Hilltop no doubt because it always appears to be wet up there. So after a delayed start due to our rescheduled destination we all set off for Beznar and a walk around the reservoir. Once again with a mixed bag of Nationalities, Dutch, English, French, Spanish and 4 dogs.I think we will have to change our name to LVL International. The only thing is me and Arthur aren't half getting some funny looks as we shepherd our flock of mujeres arou