Caminito del Rey

A three night trip to the the area around El Churro with our walking group. It's around a 1.5 hour drive from Nerja.

We finish with a walk on the Caminito del Rey, which looks far more frighting than it turns out to be... once we are on the walkway, that is.

so what is the Caminito?

A wooden walkway pinned to the sides of a deep gorge...

you might know this already...

The original Caminito was fitted to the sides of the gorge in 1906 to access a 3 km water channel that was constructed to generate hydro-electric power; quite some achievement back then. This followed the construction of a railway through the gorge by the creation of a series of tunnels, completed in 1865.
The walkway was originally known as Balconcillos de los Gaitanes but was given its current name in 1921 when King Alfonso XIII walked along it as part of the inauguration of the new El Churro dam; that was quite an achievement, too, because the original walkway was decidedly dodgy in 21st Century health and safety terms.
The new walkway was completed and opened in Spring 2015.

here we are trying it out...

You Tube Clip

now, the photos...

Looks very different from down here

Variations in height along the route

Approaching the bridge across the gorge

The old bridge alongside the new

Nerja Notables

Back again...

Look what they've used as sunshades in Torrox Pueblo:

Summertime in England

(need chilling out?! ...watch Van Morrison: Summertime in England)

Lots of time spent doing family things this summer because our daughters are now all in the UK.. and near to us with two in London.... which is great, of course.

What an interesting political landscape in the UK this summer... if interesting is the right word... Nationalists, left wing, right wing... what is the middle of the road person going to do now?

Anyway, this is our travel blog so, as we've spent a fair amount of time travelling around the English coast and more in the new 'van, have a look at what we've been up to:


Lets start our cultural tour with a visit to the Royal Albert Hall to see the, er.. Beach Boys in Concert

It's colour coordinated you know..

 Stone Globe near Bournemouth, where we see the, er.. Moody Blues in Concert..

Been here before, but too good to miss again as we head for Salisbury

A good original copy of the Magna Carta lies here..

 Then it's on to Stratford to see Othello at the RSC. Wonderful, actually. And here lies the Bard himself.

Anne Hathaway's Cottage..

In the RSC before we turn off the camera...

Jewellery making as it used to be.. the Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham

The wonderful North Norfolk Coast

The longest narrow gauge railway in the country at Walsingham, they say...

Geoff's birthday in a London Blues Bar... enough said...

High House, Stafford... wonderfully maintained... pity about the ground floor...

In High House there is this gem.....Look carefully: it's the death warrant for Charles the First and there is Oliver Cromwell's' signature on the left.

And sitting on Greenwich Hill, we reflect on a summer well spent...