nearly time.

A week today I will be in Seville, ready to start walking the next morning. I have been practising regularly, I walk at least 6kms every day with a couple of days, each week, of walks between 15 and 20 kms. this has been greatly helped by the fantastic weather we have had this month. The weather has just got warmer and warmer, not even frosts at night now, today I walked in a T-shirt! The picture below shows a stream that I couldn't cross last winter! The water came over the stepping stones and poured into the abyss below and I froze half way over, I thought I was going to stay there indeffinately but eventually I managed to get my weight onto my back foot and I returned the way I had come.

Now there is almost no water, it is the same every where. We need water. Whenever I walk 'off road'' I am walking on dry leaves, I think this has caused my hayfever to come very early, something has, and there is no pollen about. The other cause could be the smoke everywhere, my smokey fire in the house at night and fires outside during the day. Lots of permitted fires, so many that even the locals are querying why, and lots of 'accidental fires', as there is low pressure the smoke is sitting like a layer of pollution.

This is a little chapel in the middle of nowhere, dedicated to 'Our Lady of the Snows' though there has been no snow this year.

I took this picture because it showed my village and where I had walked from but it is all lost in obscurity and haze.

The weather forecast says there will be a change next week and it may rain, I hope the rain falls up here and not too heavily in Andalucia and Extremadura!