Spain week three, day four

Tuesday May 13th 2008

Moorish Farmhouse, Orgiva, Spain

A couple of our guests have wanted to do trips down to the coast, so this afternoon we went on a trip to Marina del Este, one of the more picturesque villages on the coast just past Almunecar. In the first intense heat for a few days, we walked along the sea front at La Herraderra, close by, popping into only one ice cream shop on the way, and having a very long look at a restaurant on the beach which had huge paella pans outside.

Paella pans on the beach

Marina itself was quite a pretty village though very close to the built up towns. Linda and I had lunch at one of the sea front cafes - deciding to try one of the seafood platters which feature more or less everywhere locally.

Seafood at La Barca restaurants

Polytunnels on the coast

From Marina, we drove along the coast to La Ribetta, where we turned inland for a drive across the Contraversia mountains - the same road that had defeated us last week due to low lying cloud. The area closest to the coast (south facing) is dominated by hundreds of polytunnels that smother the landscape. In some places, these fill valleys and look like some of the Christo wrapping art from the last thirty years. Just as we came over the summit of the Contraverias, we could see the entire range of the Sierra Nevedas, still carrying a reasonable amount of snow. And at exactly that point my camera's battery expired!

Like a Christo art project - polytunnels in the Contraversia mountains

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