Cycling uphill?

I suppose the upside of cycling uphill is that eventually you come down again and can free-wheel, while enjoying the views. This afternoon, 3 mountain bikers came past on their way for a quick ride up to Yegen, along to Mecina Bombaron, down through El Golco and back to Yator. They are on a cycling holiday from Edinburgh, having driven from there - in a van, not by bike.

While repairing the collapsed acequia on Monday, we met 3 couples on walking holidays, in the morning the Yegen to Berchules couples passed by, in the afternoon another couple went the opposite way. Mondays must be the start of this section of the holiday, and the start of the tourist season as well.

The acequia is now repaired....three new tubos (3m each in length and 200mm diameter for those interested!) are in a new trench which has been left open as the collapsed land is still very squidgy and if it slides again at least we can get at them. One tubo was re-usable after we got it out from under the mud. 2 tubos still haven't been found!

We spent most of this afternoon sending water round the land, weeding and clearing out the channels between the olive trees, filling water tanks and watering vegetables.