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 We are heading for Campo Lopez.  Until then we will have trees, terraced hillsides and a lot of up - 113m and even more down, 142m.

What will the weather bring? Probably not rain. [edit - I wrote this two months ago. I think it is possible to say I was wrong] Precipitation across Murcia ranges from 200mm to 600mm, making it the driest  autonomous community in Spain.  The region has between 120 and 150 days in the year where the sky is totally clear. April and October have the most precipitation, with frequent heavy downpours in a single day.  So we should be in luck- but weren't.



Campo Lopez is not big enough to rate much coverage.  Here are some videos and useful information - such as we are 59.72km from Murcia. https://pueblosdemurcia.com/pueblo/campo-lopez-lorca/  





There is a church. The Ermita de Campo Lopez exists but no one has felt the need to write about it.  Rosao’s bar has even less about it.  Let us enjoy the very narrow streets and move on.




We will be leaving Murcia soon, so lets make the most of its stats while we may. A quarter of its people are practicing Catholics and a little over half are non-practicing. These stats always concern me, it is all too binary. I think we need a sliding scale of Catholicism.  100% Catholic requires attending a lot and being keen on the Immaculate Conception and Transubstantiation.  Possibly this would go down through ‘semi-Catholic’, ‘demi-Catholic’ and even ‘demi-semi’ Catholic.  Having a vague feeling someone is responsible for all this wouldn’t count.  7.7% are Atheists and 4.6% indifferent.




12.35% of the people are not of Spanish soil born. A third of these are Ecuadorians, a quarter Moroccans and a fifteenth Brits.



So the day ends.




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