Tuesday October 7, 2014

We were up and away before first light today, 8:00 am. We had our lights on and headed out of Arcos.

We had a bit of a hill to climb out of Arcos and then headed down hill into the valley.

As we crossed the valley area, we could see a grey cloud hanging over the valley.  We cycled faster hoping to outrun the rain, which never materialized.  Was it a rain cloud hanging over us or pollution.  The Spanish farmers still burn the stubble on their farm fields and there was quite a lot of industry in this area.

It was a great ride today made even better by the fact that we could outskirt some of the typical Andalucian towns. These towns with their whitewashed houses are very pretty, but they are built on hill sides. We had lunch just outside of Medina and realized that we could outskirt the Town, the climb through the Town would have been a good test on the legs, but we decided we didn’t need to cycle up a hill and onto cobbled streets again.

After we had left the Medina area, the sun came out and the cloud disappeared.

As we came towards Vejer, another typical Andalucian Town built on a very large hill we discovered we could outskirt this Town as well and headed straight for the campsite.

The campsite was very quiet, we saw one other couple. It was strange getting used to the noises again, but as we snuggled under our sheet we listened to an owl hooting in the distance. At about 9:30 pm just as we were about to fall asleep the local village band started their band practice – half an hour of banging on drums and blowing on trumpets and then another half an hour of attempting to play together, before it stopped at about 10:30. Lovely peaceful campsite!!

We checked out other campsites for tomorrow in Tarifa, again there are about four or five along the coast.