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http://www.mccannfiles.com/id192.html#sta2
Posted this only to answer a question by ShiningInLuz on another thread.
BTW this post is not abouit the GNR dog route, it is about child route on a previous day
Block5 groundfloor goes A to F, then block4 groundfloor goes A to F.
Everyone else will say this route of children was to go between the two blocks.
But IMO it was all the way along north side of both blocks, then around end of block4 by going through the end garden (going in someone's private front gate and out their back gate), then all the way along the alleyway along the south side of both blocks. Does this sound possible?
Block 5 floor is 5A to 5D with 5H the Payne's apartment above the O'Briens in 5D. Block 4 seems to be a clone of block 5, but I have not confirmed this as it does not appear to be relevant.
I have visited, oddly enough to check on some of Textusa's assertions about what is and is not possible re pedestrian movement.
Block 5 car park connects to block 4 car park (for pedestrian access only) as both have access to the passage between the blocks. (Been there, done it.)
There is a narrow passage down the west side of block 4, from the car park to the rear, beside 1 de Maio. It is now gated off at the front. As to when that gate went up, I do not know. I suspect it is post-Madeleine, simply because the folks who check the utility meters at that end of the block have to go through it to read the meters i.e. it is in a 'stupid' place.
The side passage is not a child hazard re 1 de Maio. 1 de Maio is elevated re block 4 at this location and effectively forms a wall. As it so happens, there is also a wire-mesh fence all down this side of 1 de Maio, keeping people out of the Tapas area (or more likely from falling off the drop from 1 de Maio to Tapas area and breaking their necks.)
That passageway held the flat's sunbathing loungers etc at the time I visited, so the folks consider it to be non-public.
At the rear that side passage is definitely in the back garden of block 4. You need to use the garden gate to get to the passageway to the south of block 4 and block 5.
That side passage is NOT a short cut from the front of block 4 to the Tapas area. It would be a long route. Anyone interested in a short-cut from the front would walk to the passage between 4 and 5. So there is no real need to have the passage beside 1 de Maio as a general public access area.
The passage at the rear of block 4 is roughly half the width of the same passage behind block 5.
You folks are clearly not reading my blog. Perhaps a couple of months ago I demonstrated the passage behind block 4 (rather than block 5) was the ideal place to monitor the Tapas 9, while being shielded from their sight, then swoop, abduct, and scarper back this way to get to car park 4, into a car and off into the night. No, I do not have proof it happened this way, merely that it makes sense and it is very easy.
Textusa has a post somewhere to the effect that one cannot get from south of the tennis courts to the car park in front of (west of) Baptista. You can. The car park beside Baptista/LuzTur has shops on the north side, but on the rear of those shops is a string of private houses, presumably falling within OC use. There is a similar pedestrian passage at the west end of those houses/shops beside 1 de Maio. In this case it is a valid short cut and open to members of the general public.
I suspect the 'errant children' tale appeared some time after the 'dog path' tale, but I have never been interested enough to check. As the 'errant children's' tale is Gerry's and he spent 2 months in block 4, he should have recognised exactly where the children wandered. Technically it fits the category of strange 'statement', but it does not light my fire.
