12 km - to Cuzcurrita

Our first "hike".
Jose and I were in Aranda this past weekend to visit his new cousin, among other things. We made plans to wake up on Sunday morning and drive to a nearby village, park the car and walk 12 kilometers (9 miles) to Cuzcurrita and back (12 km total). We chose this village because its an example of a trend that is affecting many villages in Spain.
It's abandoned.

As more and more people move towards cities, whole villages like this one are left behind.
The only thing left of the village, which nobody remembers as having many houses or a few, is the church. We couldn't even really tell where the houses once stood!


But the 12 kilometers was a nice walk. Actually, my legs were killing me after about 10, so the thought of walk twice that amount everyday for a month seems a little far fetched now. Let's see how we do over the next couple of months.


And these were some grapes we picked and ate along the way. Don't know how they avoided the harvest in October.