18th July
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A bit warm
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An even earlier start, stumbling around in the dark! The plan was to walk in the morning then shelter up for a while continuing when it cooled down, it seemed like a good idea.
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| La Jonquera |
Up the hill as usual, at least it was relatively cool. It was a long time until the sound of the motorway and railway disappeared.
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| A nice picnic site but no water |
The Ermita de Santa Llúcia has a dry water point, no wonder the hermits moved away.
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| DC 6 remains |
On up to the summit plateau at Puigcerda dels Falguers. A bit further down the other side there are the remains of a DC 6 which crashed in
1986.
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| Castell de Resquesens |
According to the book there was supposed to be a bar/restaurant at Resquesens, but there isn't, even the waterpoint was dry.
The noise of the cicadas today was almost deafening.
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| Els Vilars |
A climb up again before a long descent to Els Vilars, a little hamlet (unusual, no church) with nothing but a waterpoint.
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| Loading cork |
The plan was to stay in the shade here and move on later but the flies thought it was a good idea as well. As soon as I stopped they swarmed around.
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| Cultivation Spanish style |
After about 15 minutes I had had enough and heat or not had to get moving again.
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| The road goes ever on and on |
The next section was up about 5km of road with almost no protection from the sun, after a short distance I met the Spanish chap who I first met yesterday descending to La Jonquera. He was coming back down the road as he had decided it was just too hot to go on.
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| Aarggg! |
'Mad dogs and Englishmen' however, and I kept plodding on getting hotter and hotter.
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| At last a bit of shade |
My plan was to camp near the ruin of Mas Pils, which now appears to be a major nesting site for swallows, whether African or European it was hard to tell!
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| No grass though |
There is no water here but I had prepared for that and pitched by the dry river bed near the 'No Camping' sign. It was a nice shaded spot among some trees but the temperature was crazy, as were the flies, pity there weren't even more swallows.
I was driven into the tent after an early dinner but managed to survive the heat and get to sleep ok.
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