Unusual or different

Rock window (perhaps hopefully onto a brighter future for us all?). The way I took (not a path at all really) went under this rock. Very common to have a giant boulder wedged over a gully in granite country! Granite forms on Pena del Tejo, a little to one side of La Sierra de La Cabrera proper but terrific scrambling territory in its own right. Indeed I spent a whole day here, intending to move on to the main ridge but finding a day's worth of interest at this place, including the mountain stream close-ups I sometimes post. photo taken 2012 and first posted on ipernity in 2017.

Old door and window. Maderuelo, Segovia Province. Night shot.

Granite throws up eccentric forms! La Sierra de La Cabrera. Madrid Province.

We made a partially visible message on the wall here: '01/11/2017 Hiking Madrid'! The tunnel is 3 km long and on a curve, so the light at the end of the tunnel soon disappears! I occasionally walk with Hiking Madrid and today was the All Souls Day holiday walk called the Walk of the Day of the Dead. It followed this disused railway line UNDER La Sierra de La Cabrera. But this tunnel hides a sad tale of forced labour under the Franco regime. The tunnel was dug by prisoners, many of them political prisoners, over time and the railway line was finally opened in 1968. It was never financially viable and the last recession killed it off. It closed in 2012. When I first started walking in the Sierra de La Cabrera in 2011, I saw the trains occasionally and I hadn't realised the line had closed until this walk along the line and through the tunnels was advertised!

My great grandfather's uncle. A hard-hitting batsman in the Botham / Flintoff / Pietersen / Stokes mold. (a 19th century pinch hitter!) He played in the first two test matches of Dr W G Grace's captaincy of England against the 1888 Australian tourists, which they won handsomely.. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Sugg#Cricket_career

I rather like this balancing act!

More granite shapes. La Sierra de La Cabrera. Shot taken in 2012 and first posted here in 2017. ***HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL MY IPERNITY FRIENDS. FINGERS CROSSED FOR IMPROVEMENTS IN ALL THINGS!!!***

Another of this castle but why not? The coast at Portreath / Porthtowan can be seen in the distance.

More erosion at Treaga Hill, Ralph's Cupboard, Portreath. I didn't stay here too long (although I was standing on solid granite, I couldn't be too sure what, if anything, lay beneath it!)

Saint Day, Cornwall. Sadly, I stay here all too infrequently!

Sierra de La Cabrera granite and La Cabrera town. Seemingly precarious giant boulder. It is enormous but is it secure?

Rodochiton. My mother's garden. Saint Day, Cornwall

Tubby's Head, Cornwall

Chinchon, in Madrid Province is a very attractive town. It is also very touristy but some of the back streets such as this are less so. I was pleased that I had long given up smoking when I went up here. Even so, the walk back down was preferable!

It does have a name and it isn't this! Unfortunately, I forget what it is and I forget where I found out before! The wonderful world of Sierra de la Cabrera granite. In the distance, Pico de La Miel. I recall this as being the hottest day I have experienced in the sierra, so far!

The 'Pepperpot' at top right was the huer's look out. A huer had the responsibility of calling (hueing) the first sighting of the pilchard shoal. When that happened, the whole town swung into very serious action! The jetty and round stone hut on the left, having withstood many severe storms, finally succumbed to a huge storm the following year. And rebuilt extremely quickly. When I re-visited in 2014, it was as if nothing had been destroyed! I was impressed!

They reminded me of a rather large and boisterous but loving brood! Happy families in my kitchen. I don't feel so good abut cooking and eating them now!

It's been a little while since my table made an appearance and I make no excuses for showing another shot of it! La Sierra de La Cabrera granite.