Lecrin Valley Limpers

This week we hit the tourist trail for a walk around Granada with our guide Rafa. I must say he was very professional with his umbrella, and he knew the route and where we were going, not like the usual guy. We met up with Rafa at the Puente del salón and walked up to admire the work of the graffiti artist “ El niño de las pinturas”, superb. The highlight of the walk came early on, Rafa had arranged a visit for us to a practice session of the Granada youth orchestra, incredible. The walk continued on unknown roads and alleyways until we arrived in Sacromonte where we stopped for refreshment at a cave bar. It was closed when we arrived and he was a bit reluctant to open until we explained there were 22 of us. The walk carried on through the Albaicin but, with time pressing as we had tapa arranged and people to meet, we couldn’t linger. Some in the group tried very hard to get lost but Rafa would always find them. After the walk, we went to Rafa’s for tapas.

This week our season of disaster walks continued.  We had no specific walk planned for Sunday due to a poor, constantly changing weather forecast. The idea was that we would meet in Cozvijar and plan something to fit in with the weather.  With rain due in the afternoon it was decided to walk from the garage to the laguna de Padul  The walk is all on hard, dry tracks, useful after all the rain we have had, and we could make detours to various bars if conditions deteriorated.    It was a beautiful morning as we made our way across to the Mamut interpretation centre near to Padul, it was closed. Fortunately for us the zoo was open and there was a friendly Mamut in the petting area, along with a Saber Tooth Tiger. From here we walked alongside of the laguna, past the whomping willow tree. Finding a nice shaded area we stopped for a mid morning snack then walked back across the flat lands to the site of the old Roman road. In Roman times, before the laguna was draine