The Spring of Life, River from Mountains

Yesterday we went out to do some shopping and take a break from the tedious daily routine of putting up pictures and clearing boxes and sweeping up. It is never ending but we will finally get there in the end, we are completed upstairs and now we are 50% complete downstairs, we still have tons of things to sort out and we have a sofa and chairs on the patio which we cannot do anything with yet but we are working on it. It appears that the refrigerator is working almost, we have to find a thermometer to check the internal temperature and then we can declare a win on that one, it has been sat here for 8 years waiting to get a good run and now it is working it did take its time but i think it is getting down to the correct temperature, I am so cheap i am refusing to buy a new one just because this looks like it is working.

Anyway after going to the local town, Archidona, this is a very old town with an 8-sided plaza, and a monastry on the very tall hill that it is built around, we actually drove up it a couple of weeks ago with my neighbour.

This the very big hill




This is the Hermitage now church on top of the hill



This is 3 sides of the 8 sided plaza



So we went shopping, and then as the sun was blazing down we decided to go for a drive to the spring that feeds the local towns water supply, it is pretty famous and makes this town pretty independant for water and makes it cheap and pollution free. we arrived and found this amazing and huge river emerging from the base of the limestone mountains that surround our town. The water is forced along some small channels and then pours out of these tubes in a kind of fountain display, it was fantastic to see and people come from all over to fill up with the life giving mineral water, it does taste nice and there is even a supply of untreated water coming from some drinking water fountains in the town square.

The spring is quite spectacular as it is so big




This is the road along the bottom of the mountains where the underground river emerges to create the spring