Resist the Resister

 I’m not sure when I started ‘Walking’ - the purposeful act of going from A to Bish - compared to the mere act of not dragging my bum along on the ground.  Maybe it began when I went to secondary school and coming home for lunch was a thing - as we had over an hour, rather than the skimpy 40 minutes today.  College helped.  Catch a bus,  you had to leave home at 7.40.  Walk and it was 8.00.  Poly reinforced this.


Of course I really am not good at doing nothing and at least if you are walking you are doing something. You also get to discover byways and small landmarks of minor interest.



Thinking has also been a way of passing time and reordering problems.  Of course, it has to be the right sort of problem.  Anything involving pen and paper is right out.  Serious problems can lead to longer walks.  The trad walk for this page lasted about 40 minutes - or a podcast.  The new one is over an hour and, apart from the coffee break, may mean a problem, a pod and then time to fit something else in.



We are heading for Carcaixent - a place where 20,000 thought enough of each other they choose to live together.  It has Celta-Iberian roots and was, at one time, well into silks before it swapped to oranges and here is why.



In 1781 parish priest Vicente Monzó and two chums, a notary by the name of Carlo Maseres and a pharmacist, Jacinto Bodí, planted the first fields of orange trees in Carcaixent. The trees thrived in the land, helped by water from the river Júcar.  In the early 19th century, orange trees gradually started to replaced the rice and mulberries, taking over as the main local crop. Wholesale exports of oranges followed, helped by the arrival of the railway that connected Valencia to Carcaixent in1853. The Carcaixent-Dénia line was one of the oldest narrow rail tracks in Spain.



Hungry?  Let’s have  kebab at the Fast & Good.  https://kebabfastgood.ola.click/  It gets 4.8 stars from almost 1200 reviews.  This LGBTQ+ friendly purveyors of food will charge 4 euros for a keb rustico. Reviews are replied to.  Last week Rauly said ‘ I tried their chicken kebab for the first time today, and it was truly amazing. The chips were so crispy and the red and white sauce was amazing. Roy was very kind and friendly. I will definitely be back.’    A one star review got this ‘What's wrong with you? I checked your account and you're probably working on that. Writing bad reviews for almost everyone. You're a great resister’



We will end with this one from Michelle ‘We didnt dine in as it was very warm. We got our food to go. The owner made us a delicious kebab sandwich. The fries and the sauce were amazing. We loved it. I highly recommend.  Prices were reasonable.



























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