A butterfly flaps it’s wings, and change the weather halfway around the world. Chinese proverb, or quote from Jurassic Park – either way my own example of Chaos Theory happened this week when I lost a filling last week, and led to a great adventure.
And so after emerging from the unexpected dental appointment we decide to walk up though the proposed site of Europes largest film studio, if it ever happens. This former banana plantation is huge, 550 acres of gently terraced land, it would be great place and all the really smart hotels are just the other side of the motorway so it’s in a perfect location.
We pass a large, mostly unused stables, and the going starts to get tough. We engage our inner 4×4 to cross from one path to another, clambering over a few pipelines as we go. Then we’re on an old pathway, following a pipeline upwards towards the sloping face of Roque del Conde, the wonderful flat-topped mountain which is visible from most places on the south coast.
Our intended destination is the Little White House half way up, which I’ve wanted to get to for many years. The pathway is quite tough and twists and turns several times as we get nearer, almost walking underneath, but out of reach, then two hairpins later we’re close again as we climb forever upwards.
Finally we’re there, the views are wonderful and we can tick off another destination of interest, to us anyway, on our list of fabulous walks. The return offers many choices, we opt to cross the ridge over to Torviscas Alto, probably the highest populous area in the south.
Then it’s a great walk downhill all the way to the motorway and a short walk back to the dentists in Fañabe. Wonderful!
