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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 ...

Sunny January in Andalucia

After a wet beginning to the week the sun has shone consistently, renewing my faith and statement of "there´s always blue sky in Jaén".

Ok it´s not exactly true but feels like it.

Today we had a small order of logs and stacked them, then went to Casa El Reguelo our holiday home and picked our olive trees, all five of them. Not worth the effort say my boys, I disagree. We´ve had between 45 litres and 15 litres of extra virgen olive oil for the couple of hours it takes us to pick and bash our trees. It´s a great feeling have stacks of oil in the cupboard, can´t live on it I know but what a sense of satisfaction.

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