This morning, after leaving the hotel, we walk through the quiet streets of Ayamonte. Crossing a park, we get to the cycle route fairly quickly. This turns out to be a dirt road, which is easy to hike. We walk between rivers, canals and swampy areas. Occasionally a group of tourists on bikes passes by, but it is nice and quiet, away from the main road. We pass some farms, riding stables and an occasional fish farm. Again, we feast our eyes on the many water birds! The landscape slowly changes into orchards and a lot of farmland is covered in plastic. At one point, plastic is stretched over everything. Especially over blueberries, persimmons and, oddly enough, almond trees with their pink blossom. It looks pretty messy, all that windblown plastic. But before we know it, we have walked about 12 kilometers and we take a break at the edge of an orange orchard. At last we can also dry the tent, which is still wet from yesterday morning!
After the break, the path is easy at first, but after a while it becomes completely overgrown with bamboo. Almost crawling, we pass under it. We see on the map that the trail just keeps going, but it doesn't look like we'll get any further. So we leave the biketrail and walk through an orchard into an industrial estate, where people are busy working and riding trucks. A bit awkward, as it must be private property, but the people greet us kindly. We walk fast to get to the other side of the area, crawl under a barrier, and are happy to get back on the mainroad. There's only another kilometer or two left to the city border of Lepe and our next hotel, and we can walk nicely along an old railway line. This brings us to the end of the stage. Thankfully, this one went a lot smoother than yesterday!
