A Postcard A day -Tuesday 6 October 2020- T for vertigo, rocks and good food

 

Translation: Nice Day: Which coffee do you need today? Love, peace, happiness, health, luck or strength?

Hello lovely ladies of the T-gang,

How are you all? Ready to join Elizabeth and Bluebeard's T-Party? OK, here we go then.

First of all, here is my postcard for today:

It came to me from the USA, from South Jersey. It has an almond cake recipe on it. I was all set to make this cake as we live in almond country, so I have lots of almonds. But when I read it, there were no almonds among the ingredients, just almond extract. Funny enough, we don't have that here. I'm sure I can get away with making the cake with chopped almonds. I'll let you know how that pans out when I make it.

The stamp is a gorgeous Forever stamp with a flower on it. 

Now, you might know that we had had a little holiday in the northern part of the Malaga province.

Our holiday was fantastic. We should have gone in March. We had booked a hotel to celebrate my birthday on the 23rd of March, but the hotel had to close down during lockdown, but promised we could book on a different time (as the money was not refundable).  So this was a belated birthday treat. And what a treat it was! 

This was our hotel (photo above)

And here I am in the bar of the hotel (photo below)

We walked the famous Caminito Del Rey, which is a walkway through a canyon.

In the early  XX century, with the industrialization of Malaga, there was an idea of taking advantage of difference in height between the two ends of the ravine to produce some electricity. 

A precarious path was constructed attached to the rocks, to facilitate the waterway maintenance, which was an important element of the engineering works.

The path was then called the Balconcillos de los Gaitanes  (little balconies of the gypsies), some of which still exist. (See below, where the old walkway is below the new one.)

In 1953, the path changed its name to Caminito del Rey in memory of the visit of King Alfonso XIII to the El Chorro Reservoir in 1921.

As you can see it is not for the faint heated, but we enjoyed every minute of it. In total, we walked 7 km.

We walked from our hotel at the El Chorro Dam (the top left P) to the end of the trail, and then got the shuttle bus back to the hotel. (the blue dotted line).

The is the dam by our hotel.

We did a lot of walking in the mountains. Here we are on the top of the El Torcal  mountain:

It's weathered limestone. (also called Karst)

An Iberian ibex (mountain goat) posing for me.

The view from the top was breath taking.

Now it wouldn't be a T-Party without a drink. So here is mine:

Our bottle of wine at dinner.

Below is hubby showing the bread roll with Caminito del Rey burned into it.

 We had a lovely holiday. The places we visited are well know tourist destinations, but because of Covid, there were very few people around. On the Caminito walkway, the entry was 'staggered', and people kept their distance. In the hotel dining room, we were the only guests, although I know that other rooms were occupied, we didn't see many other people.

We did take off our face masks when taking photos (apart from one, where I forgot).

I hope you enjoyed my photos.

Happy T-Day all,

Stay safe,

Hugs,

Lisca