On the Camino Pina

 We are in BIG sky county, I feel quiet at home.  The Camino Pina - it is you know, there will be  a sign and everything, is a rough farming track which will smartend itself up just as we meet the A-1105. Google helpfully points out this is the Camino natural del Ebro entre Pina y Gelsa. It is a hiking area - open 24 hours a day, with no review. The SET GELSA electrical substation is also marked. Please someone go there and review it.  



to both these designated areas in marked an historic river port. It has eleven review [4.2 stars]  The reviews are all of the picnic area and not of, the important, port.  Estrella says ‘Beautiful place to disconnect from everyday life and connect with nature. For animal lovers, you just have to sit down to enjoy several of them for a while. You can sit and eat in its viewpoint with wooden tables under a beautiful pine forest.’




We are going to have a near Gelsa experience.  We are 147m above sea level and at a place Julius Caesar gave as a colony. In 1495 the population was more or less, Moriscos.  The 1845 much quoted Dictionary reported the place had ‘ "looms where linen,​ girdles and blankets are made, a flour mill with 4 millstones, 2 oil mills and a fulling mill"  Unlike other Ebro communities, Gelsa’s populace has declined from 2300 in 1940 to 1000 today.



The town website has some nice pictures.  https://gelsa.es/   It has a page entitled ‘Authorization for participation of minors in the release of cattle’  https://gelsa.es/avisos/autorizacion-de-participacion-de-menores-en-suelta-de-reses/  There are many clubs, including the Association of women of the Virgin of Good Success.’  https://gelsa.es/asociaciones/asociacion-de-mujeres/




Tomorrow we cross the Ebro - again.
















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