We love mulberries. They're sooo delicious, juicy and satisfying... The juice has a strong red color. And it doesn't go only into the mouth. Our bodies are looking afterwards like after a bloody disaster 😊
We wanted to walk one week in an area with many mulberries and to eat only what we find in nature. That was around the village Pitres, 20km northeast of Órgiva. Once they produced there silk. The silk threads were produced by caterpillars. And the caterpillars were eating the leaves of the mulberry trees. That's why they planted there many mulberry trees once...
But we didn't find anybody who wanted to join. And there was no direct bus connection to Órgiva on the starting day (a Sunday). Aim'jie and I decided to do it alone and with bicycle.
Sunday, 22 Aug 2021:
Aim'jie and I start with these bicycles.
After 1km, Aim'jie hits the crash barrior and gets minor abrasions. The cause is a defective ball bearing in the steering. Our bikes were bought cheaply second-hand. We walk back, luckily have a spare bicycle at home and ride off with it again.
Sleeping place at a river behind Salobreña
Monday:
Break in Vélez de Benadaulla. It's warm, the water is welcome.
Reservoir lake close to Órgiva with my bicycle
We sleep over Órgiva, again close to a river. But here the river is dry.
Tuesday:
Before Pampaneira we find the long awaited mulberries.
We go uphill often and have to push the bicycles. Sometimes Aim'jie is exhausted.
Mulberries again, many trees, before Pitres
They are looking like blackberries. In Spanish they're both called "moras".
What's this noise? I eat normally some leaves to the mulberries.
If you eat mulberries, you get a makeup. Therefore only a few people eat these wonderful fruits.
In Pórtugos, we go to the "Fuente Agria", a special water source with iron, soda and gas. We enjoy the taste.
The source is dedicated to the patronage San Isidro.
The iron of the water colours all red, where it's flowing.
Mulberries under a tree on a concrete road. Or maybe I should call it mulberry road.
We sleep over Pórtugos, in an altitude of 1300m. Even here it's not really cold.
Wednesday:
We're on the way back. Behind Pitres, we go for a walk and find many mulberry trees. We enjoy also the dry ones from the ground and collect them.
Unwished makeup for the teeth. Luckily the colour goes away after some days.
There are fig trees as well. The most have only unripe ones, but here we find ripe ones. And many more on the way in lower altitude.
Clothes line on Aim'jie's bicycle. She has washed her clothes just with the water of a source.
Close to the mulberries, we sleep with a wonderful view.
Thursday:
On the way there before Órgiva, we have hidden a little treasure under these branches...
...and now on the way back, we find it again: dried bananas from our garden!
Partially we use traffic roads. Here it seems I could even overtake the cars...
... To avoid the traffic, we walk through the river. On the other side there is a beautiful concrete road.
Friday:
We sleep at a beach. Next morning we start pretty early. The temperature is pleasant, and on the roads there's less traffic in the morning.
Don't trust the bicycle paths in Spain. This one in Almuñécar ends abruptly at a wall.
At home, we dry the collected mulberries (right box). In the other boxes we dry bananas. To keep away flies, we use mosquito net...
... and to keep away ants, we put the table feet in water, ants are not able to swim (another possibility would be to put natural wool around the feet).
We collected and brought home many almonds from abandoned trees as well.
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