Caños de Meca

This summer I spent three weeks in Caños de Meca to visit a friend of mine and relax by the sea, getting away from the town, where I feel very often overwhelmed by the many things happening around, both positive and negative.

I was impressed by the sweetness and simple beauty of the landscape there. Green hills of pine trees scent the air, fields of sunflowers and olive trees, cows grazing slow in the wide fields, the ocean shakes your thoughts and fills you with his many shades of blue, the sun shines fiercely from the morning up to the sunset into the ocean.

Unlike many other parts of Spain where speculation has disfigured the landscape, here the low and white buildings or countryside houses are still in harmony with the sorroundings and there is a sense of harmony between man and landscape. You can have some food or drinks in chiringuitos on the beach or in a venta, a small restaurant where the family that usually runs it also cultivate the ingredients used for preparing it and stroll in the many artisan markets with creative pattern and design.

There is still some poetry there that I cannot find in the fast-paced life in the cities today. I woke up with the rooster and the birds singing and I went to bed when the stars where lighting a starlit sky. In the night you could also the something I had never seen before that is the moonset in the ocean.

I visited also Cadiz, the main city of the area and many villages around like Vejer de la Frontera, Conil with their white little houses, Barbate, a tuna fishing village,Bolonia, an old Roman town which riuns can be seen directly on the beach.

The horizon opens up
the tip of Africa on the other side
waves come and go
bring me to a place I don't know
clear, clear ocean
I fell for you
since I met you
under this sky so blue and bright
sunflower fields
following the sun
cows grazing and eating wheat
when the sunset comes
we go to the lighthouse
the sky tinges with orange and pink
until the sun sets its last rays in the ocean
and tomorrow it will come back
in its full strenght
clear, clear ocean
I fell for you
since I met you
like this sun
that always shines on you