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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 ...

Oh No, It´s Cooling Down

After a crazy ongoing summer with no rain it finally seems to be cooling down.
I´ve had to put long sleeves on and now jogging bottoms having been in shorts all day.

It´s great, blue sky and sunny, not ridiculously hot and now much cooler evenings. But we need rain. The olives that haven´t watering systems are shrivelling up on the trees.


It´s going to be a very poor harvest for many this year, yet the crop is a bumper one, such a shame. They´re falling off already even before turning black.

The dust goes on (I hate the dust), and now it´s fly time too. Annoying slow flies. October is always the worst and I´ve never understood why. Why why´s there so many flies?

Why aren´t there any flies on the coast either? Anyone fill me in?

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