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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 ...

Wildflower Walks in Andalucia

I headed off with (Dim) Jim yesterday morning up the hills behind our house and hadn´t been gone long when I wished I´d my camera. Even though we´re now into June the wildflowers were incredible.

A huge and diverse array and display. I don´t usually pick flowers, I prefer to see them growing and not dying, but with no camera I decided to take some home to photograph there.








This year, and it seems every year since chemical weedkillers were stopped, the flowers have been just gorgeous. Normally mid May would be the best time to see them, this year because of a couple of rainy days they´ve gone on and on.

We had four ladies stay at Casa El Reguelo and we took them to the Via Verde de Aceite to walk and cycle. They were in awe of the diversity of flowers and the peace at our holiday home, they´ll be back they say.


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