Sabiote falls down a hillside and as we went down the hill, the street got narrower and narrower. Here's a picture the tower of Sabiote's old church (built in the 1400's and remodeled recently - in the 1600's. The street you see is the only way to get from the newer part of town to the interesting part. What you see is the street at its widest.
Now, I've gotten relatively comfortable driving down streets so narrow that you have to fold back the mirrors on both sides, but they can still inflict a sense of claustrophobia on me. So although we got down the street, found a parking place and enjoyed walking around a spectacular castle, it was nice to get back on a road more than two yards wide.
We headed for the next town. What I hadn't realized is that the road to that next town was a mountain road, with ups and downs and curves and switchbacks. We soon realized that the drive was going to take hours at our average speed of about 20 mph, so we gave it up.
We did see some beautiful views of miles and miles of olive orchards. There are something like 10 million olive trees in southern Spain, and I think we saw half of them today.
We came back to Úbeda, and about the time we arrived, out came the sun; it had been mostly overcast up til then. So we'll get another stroll here, a dinner of tapas, and tomorrow, on to Segovia.
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The patio outside our room here in Úbeda. |
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| The patio in its usual afternoon condition. |
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