Walk Sunday 5 March 2017 Venta del Fraile

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OK, I hold my hands up, I got it wrong, it was my fault we spent the morning walking in low cloud whilst everyone else had sunshine.
The walk was from Venta del Fraile, on the carretera de Cabra road, and the weather forecast for Durcal, 15 kms away in a straight line, was for sunshine and cloud and reasonable temperatures. We should have stayed in Durcal because they had all the sunshine and reasonable temperatures and we had all the cloud and unreasonable temperatures.
 The walk started from just below the bar at Venta del Fraile and for the first 3 kms followed a tarmac road. The road leads to a quarry so on a Sunday it is traffic free. At one point on the road shadows started to appear and I thought the promised, reasonable weather was going to appear but  it was a mirage, the shadows did not last long and by the time we arrived at the old quarry, which now looks abandoned, the views over to Pico Lucero and Maroma were non existent, it was just grey.
 Retracing our steps a little bit we picked up an old mule track that meanders about in the forest, going in the general direction of the cars. We stopped for lunch part way along the path, at a suitable rocky outcrop. After our break we resumed our walk stopping off at the bar Venta del Fraile, which unusually was open.
 By the time we got back to the cars the cloud was only just above our heads, Durcal meanwhile was in glorious sunshine.
 The walk and the company were very enjoyable, it was just a pity the sun did not shine on us.
In the afternoon we went round to Plym and Tony’s for tapas and enjoyed the afternoon sun on the terrace.
We walked 10.3 kms and climbed 271 metres.

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