Mulberry Retreat

Cástaras, 25km east of Órgiva, South Spain

There are many elderly people living in this small village, but there is no public bus and no food to buy. But you can find food outside, in a quality that no supermarket could offer: Every few meters a fig tree, in addition sometimes mulberries, grapes, apples, almonds, olives dried under the tree and wild herbs.

If we go out of the village, there are many footpaths here, some very old, as we already suspect from the construction with natural stones. After about one kilometre we reach our Rawfood Retreat on a small meadow next to a brook. We have set up 2 big blue tarps, because despite the summer a few drops fall from time to time. During the day we make hikes, 2 times in a neighbouring village, because of the special soda containing water, otherwise in the slightly mountainous environment.

Difficulty of planning: It was very nice, but I find the small number of participants a pity. We were mostly only 4 people. We only want to have the retreat with at least 8 participants, but we couldn't skip it, because one participant had booked a flight ticket from Germany. However, more than 20 had registered. Some cancelled, but many simply did not react and did not come. (For some, however, I responded to the registration with a few days delay.) Last year 11 people came with 20 registrations. But we are considering whether in the future we will charge the raw food retreats (contrary to the Rainbow tradition) a registration fee, which we would not refund if they did not show up. Maybe there is no other way. Or does someone have another idea?

After the retreat the three of us did a little Walkabout near Nerja.

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