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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 ...

Home Dried Tomato Success

Having also been meaning to experiment with drying something different to figs and grapes the chance came when I was given a bucket of tomatoes. As well as my own we were rather inundated.

There are only so many tomatoes one can get through in a day, especially when none of the sons eat them. So I chopped some up and popped them in the sun for three days (see figs for how) and hey presto.

They now sit in a jar of extra virgen olive oil waiting to be used, I could have put them straight into a jar on their own, but thought I´d give the oil a go. I think they´ll need using much sooner in oil though.

When I´ve put herbs in olive oil before they haven´t kept very well, going mouldy  quite quickly, so I'll use them this week, I just wanted to see how much flavour they infuse the oil with.




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