The walk to the Faro de l’Albir is a popular one. The asphalt road starts at the Serra Gelada information point on Camí Vell del Far, is closed to traffic, and runs along the cliffs to the lighthouse: roughly five kilometres return, with about a hundred metres of climbing. A local newspaper counted around a thousand users a day on it.
It is a good walk to do with nothing in your hands, which is exactly how keys get left on a bench, dropped with a jacket or handed to whoever was carrying the bag.
Before you walk back up the path
- Check every pocket, twice, including the small ones on running shorts and the phone case.
- Ask the group. Keys travel: into a partner’s bag, a child’s pocket, the buggy basket.
- Check the car, if you came by car. Keys left on the seat of a locked car are a different problem, with its own guide.
- Think back to the last stop. The viewpoints and benches along the path are where things are put down.
If you decide to walk back, go at once: the path is busy, and the sooner the better.
If they are gone
Stop searching once you have retraced the obvious places. An hour on the cliffs costs more than a locksmith, and the door does not get easier to open after dark.
- Walk or drive back to the house. The locksmith meets you there, not on the path.
- Ring, say where the house is (the part of Albir and the street), and that the keys are lost, not locked inside.
- If the keys had the address on them, ask for the cylinder to be changed after the door is opened. How doors are opened without damage.
If the door is only pulled shut
A door that was pulled shut but not locked with the key usually opens through the latch. A locked one opens through the cylinder. Either way, you are told which before anyone starts, and the price is agreed first.
More on finding your way around the seafront and the upper Albir on the Albir page. If the house is in an urbanization with two spellings, read how to give an address that can be found. At night, the emergency line is answered at any hour.