Leave Ingenio Square and drop down to the river bed. So far so good. Walk north along it until you reach the reservoir built by the moors.

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Walk another three hundred metres and where the helpful sign on the right…

I never saw a sign or another path other than just to carry on walking up-river. I did that until I couldn’t go any further. I didn’t get the sweeping views of the valley I was promised, but it’s a very beautiful place.

I had a better day than this guy though, I wonder what became of him?

Walking back I saw just how far down I’d come from town to reach the river bed. It was only the extremely large dog that was following me at a pretty precise 10 yards all the way up that kept me going. Not too fast, not too slow, don’t look it in the eye.

It was a really beautiful walk with not many people around apart from a couple that were randomly sunbathing in what was the river. It’s interesting: up-river it just sort of meanders around the place, not very deep anywhere and easy to cross when you need to, but just outside the town it is managed into a concrete channel that leads to the old reservoir from where it is distributed for agriculture. It never reaches the sea.