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| This is the plan |
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| We're going down there |
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| ..and through that |
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| ...along there... |
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| ...and over lots of these. |
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| Made it |
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| What sensible people do as Santa Colobra |
Most of our holiday was entirely restful
but as thank you for helping her, Xanthe arranged for us to go on adventure
walk with the Experience Mallorca company whose founder she has been helping
with her horse (this system works well!). Joining up with a small group and a
guide, we walked just 6.5 kms in four hours and twenty minutes but what a walk!
The Torrentes de Pareis runs from Escorba to Santa Colobra, from the Tramuntana mountains down to the sea, across some very challenging and beautiful terrain.
Much of the descent is across boulders and has to be negotiated with care and
energy and rather at lot of time spent slithering along on your bottom! I
wouldn't have missed it for the world however, as I write this three days later,
I am still walking with the action of a triangle wearing flippers and my
planned participation in the 10 km Little Wishford Run has gone by the board.
It's great to be appreciated and motivates
me to keep going. There are times when I seem to bend over backwards to help
people, only one or two, who then seem to want to push me over and walk on me.
Sadly these are the ones that make me think about giving up and certainly being
less inclined to be generous with my time, training and equipment. I have to
work out whether I stop being so generous or stop being hurt when it is taken
for granted – yet another boulder field to negotiate then! I am in the
fortunate position where I could stop work and just concentrate on my own but I
still really enjoy training horses, coaching owners and resolving problems for
them.
