Leaving the Cabo.

I can't believe our stay here is nearly over! We leave Rodalquilar tomorrow, Monday 27th February, arriving home on Thursday.  I hope the Bay of Biscay is as calm as it was coming - the sea was like a sheet of glass - but unfortunately there have been a lot of storms recently! 

We're both feeling very sad to be going.  It's been a really interesting experience, especially comparing life on the Cabo de Gata now with life in the 1950s, as Goytisolo describes it in 'Campos de Nijar'.  It's striking both how much and how little has changed.  At the end of his visit here, Juan talks of his endless "anger and despair" over the relentless poverty and suffering he has witnessed.  Things have improved vastly in the last 50 years since then, yet some things are oddly unchanged.  More on this later as I'm very busy now packing up and getting ready to travel.