The weather´s been decidedly better this past few days. Tuesday, we drove along the coast and then inland to visit the remarkable village of Ojen, nestling in a steep valley several hundred metres above sea level. It´s a village which has limestone caves that have been used over the centuries for human and animal shelter. In a cliff at the side of one of the main streets a couple of caves have been made safe with stylish iron railings and iron park benches for people to sit and chat or just enjoy the view looking down the valley and out to sea.
We had a tapas lunch in the square opposite the Parish Church of Our Lady of the Incarnation. It´s currently being renovated and was wreathed in netting and scaffolding. The exterior north wall is decorated with huge lemon trees which have been trained espalier fashion to lean against the wall decoratively. I wonder who gets to benefit from the fruit?
There´s a well in the same square which dates back to the early twentieth century, although the containment of the spring and its original channelling of water to irrigate citrous and other fruit trees locally originated with the Moors a thousand years ago.
We drove on up the mountainside and returned to Fuengirola by way of Alhaurin and then the Guadalhorce valley, right around the sierra de Mijas. A decent circular trip for a very pleasant sunny day.
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