Up. 6.30 out at 7.00 walking through cool streets. We are ahead of the game by 1km having covered that from the basilica yesterday. We pass the first way marker and find a cafe with coffee and narrranja juice.
Sadly this state of affairs does not continlue. We walk out of the street pavements of Alicante and through the twilight zone of fast small roads with no pavements into the true dry countryside. We hear the first hoopoe but don’t see one.
We walk gradually into an increasingly shattered landscape of quarried hillsides. We pass signs that suggest maybe we should not be here, finally a man in a pickup discussed our route with us in Spanish and Tony replied in English and maps. He kindly directs us through the mess and back onto on to the official path. Betsy is not moving well by this stage and it gradually becomes apparent even to her that all is not functioning correctly in her brain. We slowly regroup , Tony finds a village with a bus stop and we return to Alicante. UK tomorrow although with rest and coolth normal function of the brain has resumed.