Walk 2 July 2017 Rio Dilar

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This week we went for a river walk in the Rio Dilar. In an effort to keep cool we had an early, 8.30 start from Cozvijar and by the time we had all met up in Dilar there were 17 of us, so not a bad turn out.
The walk is very easy, no hills to climb and no chance of getting lost as the path follows the river, crossing it many times. Normally the river reaches up to your knees but, due to the lack of water and that someone had been placed stepping stones in it, the water hardly came over your ankles. I later heard that some in the group managed to get there and back without getting their feet wet. If you know the names of anyone who kept their feet dry just let me know and I will cross them off the email list on the next wet walk, they obviously don’t need the river to keep themselves cool.  I am not going to slop about with wet feet for 10 km, whilst walking next to a guy who hasn’t even taken his socks off.
As it is such an easy walk, I was quite happy for others in the group to lead the way, it’s a straight path, next to the river with no turnings off. What could go wrong?
We have never got lost so many times on a walk, we were replacing guides so often that there were more people walking at the back than there were at the front. If it wasn’t for Floppy guiding us home, I think we would have still been there.
The walk took us so long we didn’t even have time for a drink afterwards as we had a big birthday celebration to attend. Congratulations to John on reaching his 70th, we had a great afternoon helping him celebrate.
We walked 10.7 km and climbed 259 metres   

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