Day No. 133 - Out of Africa - At Baraje de Betis

This morning we wake up at around 6:00 am. - We spontaneously decide to have a coffee first and then explore the mountain behind us. When we set off, it is still very cold up here. There is an old rock house above our pitch. In front of it is an old Land Rover Series II and a bucket. - War and peace hand in hand? Both very, very cool vehicles. Nevertheless, I wouldn't want to swap today. They don't have a kitchen, bed or auxiliary heating. - Although I loved my Land Rover Defender very much. I can still remember the day I bought it. My dad was there because he knew the dealer well. My old man was visibly irritated as to why, after two Land Rover Discovery, I now wanted what he considered to be a very nice Defender. The dealer summed it up with the following words: "The Discovery is peace, the Defender is war. Your son wants war" - everything has its time. - Today I want peace.

The road ahead gets steeper and worse. - For the first stretch, the Defender even had a chance. But then the path first turns into a stony trail, then into an even stonier stream. This in turn turns into a game trail.

We have to turn back at two points as we can't go any further. But at some point we sit on a rock on the ridge. It was a bit of a climb. - I could cry with happiness, Torgit with tension. - The first rays of sunshine greet us, a perfect reward up here.

I'll never come down here again" suddenly becomes "I can come down here on my own". We follow the ridge a little further and suddenly we see the bay of Tarifa in front of us - so we sit on top of the rocks and look all the way to Africa.

"I had a farm in Africa at the foot of the Ngong Mountains.

The view was wide and endless on all sides.

Everything in this nature strove for greatness and freedom"

I remember these words from Out of Africa up here. - OK, I'm not Robert Redford and Torgit isn't Meryl Streep either, but it's romantic up here too - in between, two eagles circle above our heads. A truly majestic sight. What impresses me most is the view of Africa. I love this country, sorry, this continent. I've "only" been to Morocco, twice to Egypt, once to Kenya, twice to South Africa and once to Botswana. -So I can't presume to know Africa. But the safari tours in Kenya, South Africa and Botswana touched my heart. Oh yes, we also went to the Seychelles. Also very cool, but not real Africa.

While my thoughts drift over to Africa, Torgit only sees the sea, nothing more. - But the sea and the sun touch her heart every time - so everyone has their own personal things that move them.

We carefully make our way back down. Time for breakfast, we are hungry. When we arrive at the bottom, the group is sitting together again. We join them. Once again we have fruit muesli. - Shortly afterwards, the others go climbing. We're having a quiet one today. I have a little time for our blog again. - There's still a bit to catch up on from the last few days.

On Facebook, it was pointed out in relation to one of our texts that we had researched Wikipedia. We hadn't, but our review showed that some of the references were quite similar. - But can we still do without it today? Today, January 15, is Wikipedia Day. The site went online 19 years ago today - Bertelsmann certainly underestimated the "danger" of this self-made encyclopaedia, just as Nokia underestimated the iPhone. Who can still imagine that there were people who went into debt for their Bertelsmann encyclopaedia? - It was already a mystery to me back then.