Up The Garden Path

We are sorry to lead you up the garden path, but we didn’t go to the Sierra Nevada after all. Draw your own conclusions, but having read that from just outside Granada, the road continues to ascend, in a rather twisty manner, from an altitude of 600 metres to 4,000 and, being February there’s a reasonable chance of snow as it’s a ski resort, I decided that it may not be in the best interests of my stress levels to take on the challenge. Man or mouse? I hear you say, to which I reply “Pass the cheese”.

So we contemplated a return to Caminito del Rey, we called in at the tourist office, and to cut a long story short, it rather disappointingly became not a viable option.

We had a sunny but fresh (10c) walk around Antequera, before returning to the van to contemplate our options over a coffee. The result being we headed 70 miles south back to the costas. Now I’m not exactly sure where the Costa del Sol meets the Costa Tropical, but we found a suitable parking spot near the promenade at Torrox- Costa, which is roughly on the border of the two and about 40 miles east of Málaga. The difference in temperature was significant, as now it was 20c, so the jeans and sweat shirts gave way to T shirts and shorts as we enjoyed an afternoon of warm sunshine.