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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 ...

El Torcal de Antequera

While writing about Ronda and looking through my photos of our trip there, I relive the motorhome weekend that my family of five had. It´s a rare occasion these days that five of us travel together, but I´ve some great memories of that weekend and our experiences.

Picking up the motorhome we crossed the aquamarine reservoir of Iznajar and headed towards Antequera. We got away far later than planned and spent the night down a country lane near El Torcal de Antequera, as overnighting in the park is not allowed. El Torcal is an incredible nature reserve of surreal weathered Jurassic limestone.







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