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Appendix C Accommodation

Appendix D Glossary

Appendix E Further reading

Maro beach on the Costa Tropical

AUTHOR’S PREFACE

The first time I get a glimpse of the sea on a walk my step feels lighter. It’s as if the vastness of an ocean view offers a perfect counterpoise to the immediacy and physical effort of walking a mountain trail. And who doesn’t feel more in touch with the Big Picture when walking beside the ocean? If walking is good for body, soul and mind, then surely coastal walking is even more so.

A few years back, while researching another book, I came across the stunning footpath along the Atlantic Coast close to Tarifa along with other trails close to Gibraltar. Later that year I explored the Sierra de Míjas and was again bowled over by the beauty of its footpaths. If these walks were new to me, I already knew many of the trails in the Almijara mountains close to Nerja and others in the Sierra de Ojén above Marbella. These walks were the kernel from which this guide was born, a book whose aim is to describe the best walking trails close to Andalucía’s southern seaboard in seven of its most beautiful Natural Parks.