Cold Again, Naturally – Quinto to Fuentes de Ebro

It’s not very far from Quinto to Fuentes. In a straight line less than 15kms. But the straight line follows a busy road that we want to avoid and cut across country. And therein lies our ruin. 

We got up late and had breakfast of tortilla and cafe con leche at a bar in the town. Folk drink wine with lemonade for breakfast. Seems a bit extreme. 

Quinto had a decent church….

And a decent town hall….

Other than that it was a linear, bleak and frozen place. Setting off we wanted to cut across country but initially took a wrong turn. After that we recovered the situation and followed a google map. It was accurate for four miles and then the road it indicated existed, didn’t. We were stuck on private farmland on a plateau above the Ebro with no tracks or paths.

We used a compass to aim in the right direction, but a journey the should have taken 19 kms was starting to extend. Our route was through remote hills, quarries and farmland and we just headed northwards. 

It’s hard to navigate when the electronic equipment fails and there are no maps of the area. We done our best and followed the compass down off the plateau.

This is a limestone region, like most of Spain, and has huge chunks of marble spread about all over the place. Like here..

Dropping down to a main road we trudged through difficult farmland to avoid the mentalist car drivers and juggernauts. We made it to Fuentes. As if we wouldn’t! But it was cold, windy and tough. But so are we …. boom boom! 

Night night. X