First we walked through our own village to the church in the main square. We tried to climb the tower but the door at the top was locked.
Then we walked down to Archez, a tiny village hidden in the valley below. The path went down past fincas, growing grapes, olives, avocados and almonds.
We reached Archez and had a walk round, seeing its Moorish minaret and an old public laundry area.
Then we had bit of trouble following the walk instructions up out the village - we think they were out of date. We tried to get up a path next to an old mill but it didn't go anywhere.
However eventually we found the road up to the next village, Canillas De Albaida. It was raining extremely heavily at this point, so we went straight in for lunch into Bar Cerezo.
We had mixed tapas (anchovies, mackerel, prawns, cheese, olives and ham), pork fillet and chips, ham croquettes and prawn salad, washed down with a few beers. To finish we had sweet Cómpeta wine. We stayed there till the rain stopped, then walked back down to see the Roman bridge over the stream.
When the clouds cleared a bit we could see up to the higher mountains, and were surprised to see they had a covering of snow.
We then walked up to the top of the village, visiting its cemetery on the way.
Then we took the same path back to Cómpeta we'd used before. We passed a couple of captive ostriches on the way.
After our big lunch out we didn't need much dinner in the evening.
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