Granollers is a long town built along the banks of the Congost River and surrounded by hills. When you go up to the tower behind the hospital you can see the shape of it, and how although it feels very built up and in parts industrial, it does have edges and there are natural spaces all around

It’s so very different from walking the dogs along the coast path in Cornwall but the high land with the tower is beautiful in its way and one good thing about dog company is that they don’t complain, they just get on with enjoying what is there. So long as there are smells and they can run free, they are happy.  They even call a truce and investigate the same paths and bushes.

There are lots of olive trees up here – old ones with thick gnarly trunks.

Unfortunately there is also the inevitable rubbish which you find everywhere here unless you are far far away from ‘civilisation’

I wonder who are the people who take the trouble to carry televisions and cupboards and lumps of concrete up a hill to dump it under a tree?  Catalan people?  Andalucian people? Moroccan people?  Old people? Young people?  Men?  Women?  Who are these people and why do they ignore the council dump which is conveniently situated at the bottom of this hill?  It makes me sad but also curious. Anyone have any ideas?

I don’t want to finish on that image so here is another. It’s in Montseny the mountain I can see in the distance from Granollers and where I am hoping to take the dogs soon for a winter ramble in the sunshine