Another gloriously clear sunny day, not too hot. After a better night's sleep and breakfast, Kath went for a swim in the garden pool, then we drove to Maro and had lunch in the village bar/restaurant. Tortilla for Kath, a chicken sandwich for me and a dish of fried aubergines with cana de miel to share. The aubergine was cut like chips for frying and stacked in a vertical lattice to stop them stick together before having the molasses poured over them. Ingenious!
After lunch we walked down to the Playa de la Caleta, a shallow cove with coarse grey sand three hundred metres long backed by cliffs, with a steep descent of about a mile from the village down slopes covered by ugly plastic sheeted greenhouses including three hundred steps and stretches of unmetalled road between them. A tiring walk both ways. The place felt very remote, and was quiet with just a few people swimming or sunbathing. There were lots of different insects and colourful butterflies in the area, despite the plastic sheeting covering so much of it.
We called into the Carrefour supermarket for convenient shopping on the way back. Kath then walked down to Playa Vilches for a swim rather than just a paddle, and I followed her once I'd completed writing something I'd started. Then we cooked supper together - a risotto with courgette and onions, with a couple of fillets of merluza cooked by resting on top of the rice when it had finished cooking. I worked very well, washed down with the rest of a bottle of Verdejo, my favourite Spanish white wine, also used in cooking.
Later I went out again and completed my daily distance, walking up the hill and back again. I was amazed by how quiet fthis area is. No background rumble of traffic and on a clear night stars visible despite the proliferation of street lights. A lovely experience. We've done a lot of steep climbing today bed will be more than welcome after burning up so much energy.
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