I was having trouble sleeping last night so I sat up and had a midnight feast of baguette filled with salami, cheese, and guacamole. Straight to sleep after that.

The night temperature was much more pleasant at the lower altitude. 

The sun came lazy over the hills surrounding me this morning eventually hitting me at about 8.30.

I tried an experiment today and didn’t turn my phone on till 5pm. So no pictures at all.

Out of the Tabernas region and the spectacular scenery there. Then it turned to more classic southern Spanish scenery lemon trees, olive trees  terraced up the sides of mountains. Then nudging the edge of the Alpujhara region the tops of the Sierra Nevada mountains showing its white snow capped peaks.

I went over 1100m of climbing today and my legs were wobbly at the end. As I started to recognise some of the places and decided it was time to stop.  As I said I didn’t look at my phone but also only looked at the map on my Garmin. So I just stopped when tired, this was about 4pm. I quite liked it. But I defibately miss taking pictures, I do like a pictorial documentation of my route. There were some spectacular roads today. But i remember them in my head.