Now moved west and up from the southern coast to Los Alcornocales Natural Park at a campsite near Alcala Los Gazules. The park is green !! and known for its cork oak forests and mountains. Previously we’d stayed on the coast and then up through the mountains to Humilladero where we stayed a couple of days and visited a saline lake, “Laguna de Fuente de Piedre” and saw Flamingos and Black-Winged Stilts a pretty close quarters. On route through Alcornocales we passed through the busy village, Ubrique, (felt like a town) with narrow streets and apparently know for its resistance to the Nationalists during the civil war, and along 42 km of winding road with few stopping places as most of it was Z-bends. However, we found a pleasant place for “Bebidas and Comidas” at the Puerto de Galis with a great log fire and rustic atmosphere to enjoy a lunch break and wait for the rain to slacken. We resisted the “Wild Boer” on the menu this time (still haven’t seen a wild boer). We can’t complain about the rain as this is only the second day we’ve had since we left England and tomorrow is predicted cloudy. The terrain is far greener than we had imagined and we’ve seen flowing rivers for a change from the dry river beds along the eastern side. There are many flowers out and new leaves on some of the trees but it is difficult to recognise many of them apart from the obvious Rosemary and Lavender bushes and extensive Cork Oaks around here. Today (Saturday) we went on a walk to a lookout point at the head of a valley next to the campsite: “Sendero Ruta de Los Molinos”, the route of the millers, a site of an ancient Mill in the valley. We saw lots of Griffin Vultures on route and a place on the cliffs where they were nesting. Helen lost her glasses on route, so we returned to see if we could find them only to return and see them smashed by a car on the road 20 metres from our camp. The weather is fine but we've decided to move to the coast south of Cadiz to see what that area is like before going up to Seville. Adios for now...