Daily Drena: Adrenaline!
Today we tried to make our car worth its money and drove 45 min through the mountains to a 15k trail (“Salto del Cabrero”, just outside of Grazalema). It was a perfect sunny day and the views were absolutely stunning. Again, multiply the beauty of the photographs by 4 to get a more accurate representation. The trail was surprisingly crowded, with a lot of families hiking out for picnics. It must be a very popular trail for the locals, and really is the first time we’ve seen locals actually do much hiking at all. The parking lot was full, which meant we had to park on a somewhat steep hill, apparently too steep for our little Blacky.
A very nice lady helped us out of our newfound predicament, which consisted of the front of Blacky being two inches from sliding into the neighboring car, on a steep hill when we knew Blacky didn’t have enough juice to go backwards, which is how Blacky got to be two inches from the neighboring car in the first place. Drew (Diego) was pushing, I was gassing it in reverse (although not supposed be driving) and we knew disaster was about to strike. Our savior lady obviously was European and familiar with these tiny engines. Diego utilized some Spanish before they converted to English. She told us to put a rock in front of the wheel, and summoned some guys to help push.
It was an adrenaline-inducing close call and we definitely need to rebuild up our karma after that one. We were very, very lucky we got out of there with two cars intact, although we left some of our tires on the hill. Oh well, it’s just a rental car. 🙂
Later, instead of driving to town for the planned paella trial, we decided to walk. And guess what, we both approved of the paella! Finally, a success with the food!
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- Another cute village tucked in the mountainside
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- Great place for a farm.
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- These donkeys were in our path, but they didn’t care.
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- These goats were getting pushed to a different spot, just as we were walking over their bridge. We could feel the animals hitting the bridge below our feet.
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- The path suddenly opened up to a huge grassy field, perfect for cartwheels, headstands, yoga, etc
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- Overlooking a gorgeous viewpoint. But there were many people here too, so we climbed up some rocks to get away.
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- Very rocky. Cows & goats were sprinkled amongst the rocks if you looked closely enough
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- Lunch stop.
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- This big guy was watching over the path. He didn’t seem too concerned though.
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- This friendly guy loved being scratched. We thought he might follow us home.
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- crooked-stick fence
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- Note the entire restaurant to ourselves. That’s the only way we dine. Of course it was early (like 6:45) and there was (another!) festival going on outside too, so that could have been partly why.
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- Paella!
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- We planned on having leftovers for the next day, but it all disappeared down to the last rice grain.
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- After paella, we just so happened to stumble across the fabulous hot chocolate place again.
Fabulous photos of a fabulous place. Glad you liked the paella, it looks delicious. Now we know why you prefer to walk!