For our fourth week here in Spain, we have come to the Campo de Frigiliana.
At some point last year, Sharon joined a house-sitting site, with a view to us experiencing more of Spain. Mostly the house-sitting involves looking after pets and, on this occasion, we are the guests of three dogs; Lucy, Leo and Pixel.
We have not house-sat or dog-sat abroad before, so this is our first experience in Spain.
Frigiliana is just an hour away from our apartment and the campo (countryside) behind is a mixture of wilderness and farmed – although the farmed bits look just like wilderness too. The road to Torrox winds away up above the town and our ‘house’ is quite a way up that road and then down about 2K of twisty, narrow (luckily, concreted) tracks.
The owners, who are away for four days, also cultivate three kinds of avocado (Bacon, Pinkerton and Hass) commercially and mangoes for their own and local consumption. They also grow oranges, lemons and kumquats – but whether commercially or not, I don’t know.
By the way – who knew bacon grew on trees?
Our first morning (Sunday) was altogether different from today (so far) Monday. Our hosts departed early, about 08:00am and we then set off for our first walk with the three dogs. We’d been shown a good walking route on Saturday evening, involving lots of ups and downs and which kept us out of neighbours’ land and away from passing any passing motorists/scooters. We eventually arrived back to give the dogs’ their breakfast, after which they went absolutely mental, barking and yapping for about an hour. We realise now that that was because the various neighbours were visiting their properties for Sunday relaxation or crop maintenance and the dogs were alerting us to their presence. The nearest neighbour even brought his own dogs so they added to the cacophony.
So far today (Monday) no one as visited any of the nearest fincas/villas so it’s quite blissful. We’ve not been in the pool yet, but did so quite a few times yesterday.
We took the same route with the dogs last night, but had to cut it short half way through because we heard goats just around the corner (they have bells around their necks) – we didn’t think it would be a good idea to let the dogs see them, as we didn’t know how they would react. We’d seen herds of goats, away in the distant hillside earlier, so this was probably that herd simply moving from one place to another. Part of our given route will also be closed today because of some roadworks being undertaken – so once again we have had to improvise the morning walk as the dogs would not like those men and machines to be on THEIR mountainside!
I’ll recce that part of the route myself tonight, before we set off.
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