25 March 2021 – Col de Rates

This walk is always popular with our walking group

So it felt particularly strange to be walking it on our own today

We do this walk at least once a year, but I can’t remember doing it on our own before

 It is one year since the introduction of lockdown in Spain

We are still in lockdown, but at least it is “lockdown lite”

No house arrest, and we can walk where and when we like

But we are still restricted to meeting with a maximum of two other people

 So clearly it is not possible to run our weekly walking groups

For the past couple of weeks we have walked with Richard and Brenda on Monday

 

And we hoped to do so with David and Sue today

But we left it too late to ask them, and they had an important meeting today

Hopefully we may be able to get together next Thursday

Despite everything we really enjoyed today’s walk

Though we both found it hard going and were glad we left the car at the chickenshacks and did not have to walk home.

Stats

Time taken – 5 hours

Distance – 9 km

Total Ascent – 471 metres