{"id":2923,"date":"2023-11-11T19:56:50","date_gmt":"2023-11-11T19:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/?page_id=2923"},"modified":"2023-11-19T10:46:44","modified_gmt":"2023-11-19T10:46:44","slug":"cami-de-ronda-4","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/spain-cami-de-ronda-gr92\/cami-de-ronda-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Cami de Ronda – 4"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Roses to Sant Pere Pescador – 11th November <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This day had no climbs in it to speak of, just a pleasant stroll through the fertile fields around the abomination that is Empuriabrava. A quick bite in Castell\u00f3 d’Emp\u00faries. Then back down to the coast and along the beach before heading up to Sant Pere Pescador. A nice day though longer than I originally measured. So painful at the end but, hey ho!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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All the way around the bay inland past that huge hotel on the opposite coast and down a few miles. It might even rain.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Presumably Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, having a ponder at the plans for the Ciutadella de Roses, a star shaped fort behind him. That Mystique has been here leaking her colouring.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A little witchery hut down a lonely road. Funked it up with colourful tiles.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Twenty metres away, the entrance to the wiccan protected with the arcane symbols of the Catalunya coven.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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What is Doh! in Spanish?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Now, the frisky boys and girls do have a habit of throwing their trainers over the telephone lines, but surely steering wheels on the power lines is a step too far.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Can you guess what they be for?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Rocks, cliffs, floods and now cars. It seems a most perilous trip.
They are stepping stones for when the road is flooded.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Flat agricultural land as far as the eye can see.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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These concrete aqueducts are everywhere. Don’t see a mechanism for delivery other than opening the taps and inundating as per the Egyptians.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The white cows live separate lives from their neighbours in an appalling apartheid situation.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The brown ones.
He’s come for his portrait.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A huge abandoned farm that would suit Rosalinda Scarfuto, the Californian nutjob that wants to open a touchy feely art farm with major classes in colouring in. (Am I being unfair?)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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These two are not vain at all.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Not something you meet every day on the road. A praying mantis. Hope she shuffles off before a motor scooter gets her.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The last mile on this road and, it turns out, the next as well – apple trees. Literally square miles of them. They even have their own sun shades.
These be golden delicious which do not feature in our homes, ‘cos Alex hates them.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Again a country that cares for its ducks. Wake up UK to duck slaughter.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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And, of course, the bug hotels.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Been at this wetland thing for an hour, miles of it but not a single duck – runover or not.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Stopped for a rest and this dragon fly kept me company for a while. Flirting and touching my leg before flying off again.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Finally, some big white ducks.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Wild wetland ponies, a la Carmargue.
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Made it to the beach and pretty good it is. Acres of empty camping ground to my right, though.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Back to old Roses across the bay.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The river I was contemplating wading if I’d gone the total beach route. Looked doable until a yacht came up it.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Another, vast acreage of temporary accommodation. This time for camper vans.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I’d love to know what fruit this is,<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Just coming into Sant Per Pescador and it seems the fish are safe. Although, I’m sure that some gitish peeps pay so they can kill them.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Because Herman the German F’d around with the luggage transfer people by taking his taxi round this bit, I now have to find one myself to get me to the gaff. It was a nice hotel and had the necessary laundry service, but \u00a39 per shirt, give it a rest. I was desperate though ‘cos I can’t be doing with walking in used socks. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Roses to Sant Pere Pescador – 11th November This day had no climbs in it to speak of, just a pleasant stroll through the fertile fields around the abomination that is Empuriabrava. A quick bite in Castell\u00f3 d’Emp\u00faries. Then back down to the coast and along the beach before heading up to Sant Pere Pescador. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2773,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2923","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2923"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3326,"href":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2923\/revisions\/3326"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}