Managed to get lost (08/11)

 So, no cycling for me today, it was veery windy/gusty so decided on a walk instead.  Headed along to the nearest town (Catral) to havee a look around and go to a local Spanish type restaurant.

The walk along was only about 2 miles and was quite scenic in that it had mountains and a big shiny ☀️ to the right as I walked along.

Got into the town, nice Mediterranean feel to it, however, very few restaurants open, id forgotten about the Spanish ting of siesta so most dont open until 7pm, I was there at roughly 5:30pm.  Oh well, have a walk about anyway, then it popped up - an Indian, yum yum thought me.

Went in and got a table easy enough.  Ordered my usual (Jafrezi) and was offered a drink, seems it’s a fixed price thing, ive noticed that a lot over here.  Cool, coke for me.  Food was great, very tasty and an incredibly good price (worked out at roughly £16 inc poppodoms, starter, main, ice cream and my first coke.

Still light outside but could see it wwas going to get dark soon.  As virtually no paths (walking in a cycle lane beside busy road) I thought I should head back, of course I wont need maps this time as I know exactly where I am going……

Phoned Louise to say hi, and started walking along, starting to get quit a bit darker but hey, thats what the light on a mobile phone is for isn’t it!  Plus, as I went along the sunset over the mountains looked amazing.

After a while of chatting I thought “thats weird, I don’t remember that fuel station”.  Oops, had walked too far along, by roughly 1 1/2 miles, but yeah, I dont need maps… (my sense of direction is quite famously atrocious).  Got maps on, turn around ya numpty is what it said…. By this time it was pitch dark, id moved myself to a dirt track as the road was a bit sketchy with cars zooming by.  Louise was a little worried but little did she know this is pretty standard for me, oops lost, hey ho, lets see where i takes us 😂 .

Walk back was fine, had a little trip over but no damage done (wasnt watching where I was going), a little bit lost at a turn section but then the bridge I needed to go over - hurrah - over the bridge, int the campsite - happy Dave.

This should come with “dont do this at home kiddies” warning.

So, a nice meal, good walk, and a little adventure all packed into a few hours, what’s not to like!