Our hotel was the Cal Texido.
The rooms here were very nice. One of the amenities in the brochure was a hot tub waiting to soothe your sore muscles. As it was near 70 degrees that afternoon, the four of us went looking for the tub. All in our bathing suits, we arrived to find it full of cold water. The desk clerk had led us out find it, and she promised it would be warm very shortly. At that point, she got a hose, attached to the hotel hot water heater, and proceeded to empty the tank into the spa. After she left, we all kinda looked at each other knowing it wouldn't be anywhere near "HOT", so we abandoned the idea and went back to change again into street clothes. These two gentlemen looked at us with interest, but remained cordual while three others joined them for what appeared to be their idea of an afternoon at "Starbucks".
Up this road, we found many houses in various states of condition.
If you look closely at the picture below, you will notice that the stones of the wall on the left foreground still have mud as mortar between the stones. I found if you just ran your finger along the seams, the mud would easily crumble. It is interesting to note these walls are 5 or 6 centuries old, or perhaps older. The stone mason in the background is repairing the walls as the owner is remodeling this near ruin and pulls 4-5 stones out at a time, and replaces the mud with concrete based mortar. It is very labor intensive.
The ruin below is up for sale, just waiting for someone to remodel it. It appeared on close inspection that someone had attempted to remodel it years ago and had abandoned the project.
This is not just a walkway, this is actually the road going through the village where people actually drive cars!!
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