In keeping with our continuing revelations about where each of us live, I’m posting some more views of Turre, this time taken from our roof terrace, in all directions!
Mojacar village clinging to the slopes of the Sierra Cabrera.The sea is just over the horizon, reached by a twisting road down from Mojacar.
The Sierra Cabrera mountains, home to wild boar!
Main Street , Turre - they even tarmac’d the road a couple of years back! (you can just about see the village of Bedar in the mountains behind on the right)
Turre, with view of church. Still an emerging village with only a passing acquaintance with the 21st century, we don’t have a post office, it operates out of the back of a van…when you can find it!
And finally, Cabrera village, a mish-mash of beautiful villas and houses dotted high in the mountains. the drive up is not for the faint-hearted, but the view, and the little Moroccan cafe, is worth it.
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supersizeme // May 15, 2008 at 5:47 pm
thanks for sharing these pics Kev.
Looks like the part of Kashmir I come from.
kevmoore // May 15, 2008 at 7:26 pm
Really? cool…I saw the TV show when Michael Palin visited Kashmir - have it on DVD in fact - it looks really beautiful. It ’s so sad that it’s been such a troubled region.
wrjones // May 15, 2008 at 8:28 pm
You may be able to spot some wild boors in the city as well.
kevmoore // May 16, 2008 at 9:19 am
oh yeah, Bill, especially in the bars of an afternoon..plenty of boors propped up in there….
supersizeme // May 16, 2008 at 11:11 am
Ooh.. I love Michael Palin’s travels-work.
I have the books for Himalaya and Sahara, I think I’m gunna get me the DVD FOR Himalaya too.
About Kashmir .. well actually its Indian Kashmir thats that conflict zone, it’s ethnic cleansing of Muslims by Hindu’s. Quite sad.
There are so many refugees on our side of Kashmir now.
Apart from the Earthquake, our regions been pretty peaceful throughout.
I dont think Micheal Palin covered Azad Kashmir though in the series?
kevmoore // May 17, 2008 at 4:40 pm
@supe: yeah, I’ve got most of Palin’s books, and Miki and I have the full dvd box set of all his travels, its great!
Back to your point about the Kashmir problem: it just goes to show that even though I think I’m quite well-informed, I wasn’t aware it was only the Indian side that had the conflict (though I know there’s conflict bewteen Pakistan and India) ..I think we all have a duty to avoid the danger of unwitting ignorance in the face of these world problems. Do you think your side of Kashmire can bear the influx of all these refugees?
Susan Cornelis // May 17, 2008 at 8:51 pm
Such a picturesque place! Looks very arid there. Were these pictures taken recently? How far are you from the beach? It sounds like you two are probably the busiest people in this town.
kevmoore // May 17, 2008 at 9:12 pm
Hi Susan! Yes, its quite arid, although there’s a lot more irrigation happened in the last 15 years or so. The Almeria region contains the only officially designated desert region in Europe in fact. We’re about 3k as the crow flies, or 5k drive from the beach. But as you say, we’re usually too busy to go!!
kevmoore // May 17, 2008 at 9:14 pm
oh, and yes, Susan, I took them last week!
supersizeme // May 18, 2008 at 3:12 pm
so far so good Kev, they’ve been coming in vast quantities or drips and drabs for the last 60 years, there’s lots of empty land and the govts. built properties/colonies for them, so they’ve settled in. there’s no language barrier and the cultures are alike so really, they just settle in seamlessly and our people dont mind, which is actually kind of heartwarming to know.
to be honest the natives sell up their land/livestock etc, get rich and shift to the cities, educate their children and lots of us are overseas.. like my family is. so these refugees are helping run our towns and cities and renting out our houses etc, its all win win.
we have a house there, we live there every summer etc, theres a family that has been living there for like 8-9years.
10 yrs ago that family fled from jammu kashmir (indian side) they were warned that they are about to be attacked, so they fled, set their livestock free and ran, barefoot, unprepared and their 6yr old daughter was left behind, they couldn’t find her and left without her. they walked for 2 weeks or so to get to the border.. lord knows how they crossed. Those are really standard stories, really sad indeed.
supersizeme // May 18, 2008 at 3:16 pm
i’m definitely going to get some micheal palin dvd’s. when i got the books i didn’t even think to get them in dvd format.
kevmoore // May 18, 2008 at 9:24 pm
Supe, when you get behind the numbers, to the individual families’ suffering like the one you described, it really brings home the magnitude of this human disaster.
supersizeme // May 20, 2008 at 5:31 pm
yep, very true.. it’s all very well when we think it doesnt affect us but it’s pretty hard to ignore this when its broken down in individual stories like this one.
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