A small walk to Nechite

Not being a great one for siestas and not wanting to just sit and drink beer all afternoon and fall into a coma, I decided to go for a little walk to the neighbouring village of Nechite. The route was lovely: of course there was some up up up and quite a lot of down down down interspersed with following Acequias. I enjoyed the cats trying to hide in them.

I ended up going back to the old roman bridge - the Puente de la Tableta -coming into the town. It really is an amazing bridge.

Valor itself feels like a bit of a dump. There seems to be more rubbish than normal and it feels very empty and a bit like the land that Time forgot.

But it's a really amazing part of the  world and at one stage in its history lots of people loved it and throw money at it. Some of the buildings look or feel Georgian and there are some really beautiful plants here from Africa.

The landlord and landlady are English -he is a retired banker - and I am the only visitor here. I've just been spoiled by a lovely slice of tea-cake and a cup of tea. My 1st cup of tea since I left home.

So I'm going to have a bit of a rest and then go and get something to eat and then have an early night I think. I need to be up at 5 AM

I really feel I should mention that my feet smell quite bad at the moment. It's my shoes. I can't wait to wear something else.