So several thousand people in Guadix live in cool and practical houses dug into the hills. Most of them have electricity and many of them have cars and laptops too. I went round a cave museum and learnt quite a lot about which rooms were in the older caves and the kind of rock they were built from. Clay and sandstone which are not good rocks for climbing on unfortunately.
I have just come back from a 2 hour HOT walk round the town, finished off with a chocolate and pistachio ice-cream which was gorgeous. I paid 5 Euro for a buffet breakfast at the hotel (no tostadas for me thanks!). It turned out to be gorgeous, and included some amazing cakes which I ate.
I also checked out where the bus station is and figure it is about 30 mins from my new hotel which I will check into shortly. That means a proper early start, and I gaven't done one of those for a while!
Anyway I think Guadux is a pretty cool place with plenty to see and do.I have taken hundred of photos and will send more later when I hace wifi.
South America is really big and I have never been there. I am leaving the safety of my teaching job to explore 5 spanish-speaking countries and to walk in the footsteps of Charles Darwin on the Galapagos Islands. I am hoping that neither the perilous altitudes of Ecuador, the ravenous midges in the Peruvian rainforest or the crazy Bolivian bus drivers will kill me... I will doubtless meet other people on the edge of sanity who feel the need to wander away from safety. I hope we can be friends.
Cape Wrath Trail
Thursday, 17 April 2014
Living like precious hobbitses in Guadix.
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