A Saturday Adventure

Willow had felt an urge to get out in Mother Nature for days (as she sometimes does), so Tito (as the most loving man in the world) was more than happy to help her planning. With the help of Willow's excellent Lonely Planet travel guide, they decided to go up to the Sierra Nevada. After a long bus ride on whiney, narrow roads up to 1,500 meters, they finally arrived in a small village called Capileira.




Capileira turned out to be a very nice little village clinging to the mountainside - being Spain's second highest village. It's "whitewashed stone houses seems to clamber over each other in an effort not to slide down into the gorge, while streets decked with flowery balconies wriggle between." (Lonely Planet : Spain, 2005)




The houses in the village have very special chimneys, which fascinated both Tito and Willow.

Setting out on their mountainous adventure, the young adventurers had only a very bad map to help them, so naturally, they never found the track they had planned to take. After some disappointment (and no time to turn back to find the right track), they ended up having a very nice lunch on an old tree-trunk under a lovely chestnut tree. The wind felt good, as the sun was burning. The landscape was beautiful: spectacular views of the villages along the whiney road, dry paths, thorn-bushes, cactuses, fruit-trees, tiny creeks, a river, horses, butterflies, tiny abandoned stone cottages...... The day was perfect and hiking was perfect. Tito and Willow did get lost a couple of times, as their map didn't serve for nothing and road marking was scarce. But they did find back to Capileira - and in time to take the last bus back home.




Adventures does not always turn out as one plans, but that's also what makes them adventures, right?