A walker's paradise!

The weather is wonderful at the moment - 20ish degrees, brilliant blue skies, lush green vegetation – November is a great month for mountain walking! At hotter, more intense, times of the year walking would be more limited to mornings and afternoons but avoiding the midday heat. But, now, we can walk anytime or even all day as the temperatures are really comfortable.

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We have just been for a walk to the top of the mountains behind us – the Peñes Albas. It takes just a few minutes to walk from our house to the foothills that start the climb.

The entire walk is on tarmac then unmade stony tracks and it’s a fairly steady climb to the top zigzagging along the track, each turn providing ever more spectacular views.

At the top of this walk is a walker’s refuge, which is a lovely place to picnic and rest.

Time taken to get to this point at about 1000 feet above Montichelvo is an hour and a half (at a leisurely pace).


From here the choices are to go back (an hour and 10 minutes mostly downhill) or to carry on to the neighbouring village of Terrateig with more stunning views on the descent into the village. From Terrateig there is a nice walk back to Montichelvo using country lanes (Caminos). The complete circuit takes about 3 hours