Friday, February 26, 2010

Haunted or not???

Whilst looking around You tube I came across this video taken of the Sanatorio de tuberculocis, which is located in the Sierra Espuna Regional Park in Murcia.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLzsizsowGw&feature=related
Is it haunted.......why not come and see for yourself?
for more information on walking holidays in and around the Sierra Espuna visit www.vistaverdetrails.com
Enjoy!

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Best of both worlds!



We’ve had the best of both worlds lately. Some lovely warm sunny days with endless blue sky, but on the very top of the Sierra Espuna, snow! And plenty of it. The down side of this is some additional “road walking” to get to the start of some routes, but think of the calories burnt hey!? The weekends can get quite busy when there is snow as many Spaniards come up with family to get a chance to show the kids the snow.
This weekend the hills were also busy (in the Spanish - Sierra Espuna terms anyway) we actually saw other walkers! We also came across a  chap who accompanied by his two dogs had been down hill skiing - not sure I would have taken my ski’s out there! Far to many rocks. He said he had had a fabulous day, so I guess if you know where to go and don’t mind the walk back up.
Back below the snowline, we almost managed to touch some Muflon (Atlas mountain sheep) before they realised we were behind them and saw my first red squirrel!
Paul is training - just about - for the round Espuna trail in May. Sure he’ll be ready. Me? Well we’ll have to wait and see about that.
A new restaurant has recently opened (in the place of a previous one). Arroceria Gines, it’s situated on the road to Aledo, a fabulous position, overlooking Totana, high up with fabulous views reaching as far as the Mazzaron coast on a clear day. There is a huge outdoor terrace for those balmy nights and the speciality as the name suggests is Rice (paella) all cooked over wood. We look forward to that!