Walk Sunday 10 July 2016 Bubion

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With so many of the group away on holiday I was surprised to find there were 15 of us ready and waiting at the Beznar roundabout for this week's walk.
 Our destination was Bubion, where we hoped to find somewhere a bit cooler than the 40 degrees forecast for Granada.
 The path leads straight up hill from the carpark and, for the next hour, continues climbing sometimes steeply, until you arrive at the mirador overlooking the 3 villages of the Porqueira valley. We stopped here for our mid morning break and the group photo.
The path continues uphill for another km but at a much gentler incline, and you soon arrive at the high point of the walk at 1784 metres. From here it is all down hill, apart from the little bits of up you have to do on the way down.
 The heat must have affected my judgement, I suddenly found myself saying we would soon be swimming in rock pools under a giant waterfall, surrounded by dusky maidens, I was hallucinating, it was a mirage. I had forgotten that the path turns off before the waterfall.
 We were ravenous by the time we stopped for lunch by an acequia, yes, I know it’s not the same as frolicking naked in a rock pool, but at least you could dangle your feet in it.   Unfortunately Rafa had left his sandwiches on the breakfast bar at home, not wanting to see the poor guy waste away we shared our meager supplies with him.  
With another mirage forming in my brain, this time of an ice cold beer in Bubion, we set off on the final leg of the walk. So strong was the image that even the small uphill bits vanished in an instant. The only thing that slowed us down was the discovery of a Mulberry tree, the delicious berries are the fruit of the Gods. After gorging ourselves we staggered  into Bubion looking like we had taken part in a massacre. We found a bar with some shade and a friendly waitress who was able to transform the ice cold beer mirage into reality.
It was a good walk for a hot day.  
  

We walked 12.4 km and climbed 694 metres, with an estimated calorie burn of 763, so we can have an extra beer tonight.

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