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Granite country. The path up from (or down to) Valdemanco and my bus! I got chatting to the couple seen here. They told me they came by train. That is why I was surprised to be able to do the tunnel walk last week! The line closed one month after this shot was taken. They had taken one of the very last trains in 2012 and 5 years later I hadn't heard that it had shut down! I always seem to be the last person to know anything! So, when in 2017 I went to the ticket office and asked for a return ticket to Lozoyela Station I was met with incomprehension!

Another unedited one from a small album where it shouldn't be! (If unsure, please see my comments to my previous upload).

High tide above Greenbank Cove, North Cliffs, Cornwall. My previous visit (2015) and descent to the cove was via a path that now only exists in part (seen here to the left). Coastal erosion has meant a new path (between my feet) had to be kicked in.

On one of the (very) rare occasions my girlfirend came with me to the Mountains of Madrid, she liked this spot the best.

The two Islands are known as Bawden Rocks, which you see on maps, or Man and his Man, which you don't! Occasionally also 'Cow and Calf'. The South West Peninsula Coast Path between St Agnes and Newdown Heads. Another for Pam. Suggest on Z.

Porthcadjack from above Basset Cove at high tide.

Seaweed and rock pools at low tide

The girl bottom left gives an idea of scale. For Pam.

Strange granite shapes abound throughout the Sierra de La Cabrera.

I hadn't (yet) been seen

Sierra de La Cabrera on a foggy day in December, 2011. Today would have been the same, blanket fog throughout central Spain with only the mountain peaks peeping through. I was tempted when I heard the forecast last night but I just had too much to do today, even though it was a public holiday!

I could only get this shot of the main feature at Porthcadjack (its sea cave) because of the very low tide! Maybe a twice a year event. By the way, the path down to the cove is seen directly opposite. It is easy but you wouldn't guess it from this vantage point!

This should have been in full spate, it being spring but drought at the wrong time of year and this dried to a trickle the following week. Sierra de La Cabrera granite and cistus. Valdemanco, Madrid Province

Sierra de La Cabrera, Madrid Province

I think one of my favourite rock pool shots because of the colours and very gentle ripples. As Peggy advises, best on black and full screen .

My cousin's farm is just below the hillside horizon (to the left of centre).

Another rockpool, but they can be endlessly fascinating!

A wall, a few rudimentary fences and a stile on the Southwest Peninsula Coast Path, Near Basset Cove, Cornwall