We had a wonderfully cosy night's sleep in our paradise cave and woke up to the best window ever. It was a bit overcast but the sea looked calmer than yesterday. We went to the swimming spot O found yesterday and reassessed where to jump in and where to climb out. It wasn’t very high… Continue reading Day 14
I woke up to an overpowering scent of wild thyme - we were surrounded by plants. Either they’re particularly fragrant in the morning or we were just too tired to notice the night before. We had an apple and peanuts for breakfast, I did some writing and O took some photos, then we packed up… Continue reading Day 13
Our checkout time wasn’t until midday so we took full advantage of that and had a lazy morning in the hotel room, dipping into our supplies for breakfast rather than going out to find somewhere to eat. We used the free WiFi to look into our options for staying in the Cabo de Gata Natural… Continue reading Day 12
Waking up on a deserted beach = Bliss. I had a morning swim and wash in the sea whilst O started the fire, then we swapped and I boiled some water for tea whilst O washed and swam. For breakfast we had our last two kiwis and dipped into our emergency peanuts and dark chocolate… Continue reading Day 11
It was really hard to get out of ‘bed’ after such a cosy night, but we eventually managed it! Today the quest was to find a beach and go swimming. When we got up, we packed up most of our stuff before making a fire and had tea, toast and apples for breakfast. We were… Continue reading Day 10
Our cosiest night of sleep yet! It was so awesome to go a whole night without waking up cold at any point; there has been some uncomfortable nights on this trip. This evening, the sea is still looking pretty wild and is near enough impossible to get down to from where we are, but we’ll… Continue reading Day 9
I’ve been fighting some kind of illness (probably just the inevitable body adjusting to all the different germs after being isolated in the woods with the same people for a year) for a lot of this journey, which has made me extra sleepy (and I’m already pretty sleepy!). The mornings and evenings in particular, I… Continue reading Day 8
This morning we woke up to discover that the guy who had left our dorm room last night had left quite a few goodies lying on his bed - apples, oranges, yoghurts, chorizo (that looked homemade), a very useful tupperware and a blanket. You can’t beat waking up to a pile of freebies! We had… Continue reading Day 7
We both woke up cold at some point in the night and added a tarp over our blanket for extra insulation. Probably because of this, we woke up much later than intended at 8:30. As we were leaving, a van was just arriving at the house next door so we got out of there sharpish… Continue reading Day 6
We woke up at 8:30, surprised we’d slept so long after also sleeping a lot of the car journey. We moved along the river to clean our teeth and freshen up in the sunshine, then hopped back over the wall and found a bench to sit on to have some breakfast (carrots, crackers and dark… Continue reading Day 5
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