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Ruta Bancos Gigantes or Huge Bench Route in Andalucia

A new rage is slowly spreading across Andalucia with its beginnings in the province of Malaga and that is huge benches are being installed in beauty spots across the region. The Huge Bench Route or  Ruta Bancos Gigantes #rutabancosgigantes can be found on Instagram  where they are more active with updates on the new installations of these enormous benches and they have a   Facebook  page too. Map of the Ruta Bancos Gigantes The initiative started by Forest Green an agrobroker company that supplies and works with treated wood to large construction and environmental companies in Spain. The huge bench route is steadily growing, with constant new installations spreading across Andalucia. The enormous handmade wooden benches are 4 metre long and 2.3 metre high, with the seat being 1.3 metres above ground and needing steps to get onto them, appearing in natural beauty spots hopes to encourage people out into and  enjoy the views and of course take photos to be ...

Malaga Airport Again

Yet another visit to Malaga airport, this time I flew into Leeds Bradford. Being New Year´s Day I presumed that everywhere would be busy. Wrong. Both the drive down and Malaga airport were the quietest ever.

Normally I drive down and leave my car parked in one of San Julian´s abundant airport parking facilites, just 1 km away but cheaper by far than nearer or in the aiport itself. This time family were returning and I had a leisurely journey down, able to admire the many times done route, as a passenger and nanny!


I dumped my case at the check-in and had a wander down to the bus stop and train station to find out the possibilities of getting home.



My return flight from Birmingham arrived early afternoon and I fancied a bus ride for a change.

Buses run every half hour from outside arrivals into Malaga bus station which then offers a huge choice of routes and destinations. Alsa is the main company from there.

In the end my return trip was an airport pick-up with case weighing in at 20.9 kilo case (no Ryanair didn´t charge excess), the bus trip will have to wait for a lighter load return.

The train link just outside the airport runs into Malaga city and the opposite direction as far as Fuengirola.

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