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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 ...
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Travel Writing Course - Matador U Review

I finally took the leap and joined the Matador U Travel Writing Program, for $10 knowing I could cancel within a week.

This is my almost daily record/review so far.

Sun 16/10/11

It´s now almost 24 hours since I joined Matador U and I´m impressed so far. Telling myself I´d review their Writing Course helped sway me to part with $10 yesterday and another $290 in six days.
I´d also told myself I have seven days to cancel. I can´t see that happening. I want more hours in my days to spend more time perusing and digesting the course so far.

Mon 17/10/11

I´ve written a rambling blog post and submitted it to MatU as an evergreen piece. Scary stuff. Like handing in homework that you know is no good.
Not really sure about feedback, will it knock the confidence? (What confidence) I write by blog ´cos I want to. It´s selfish, an escape. Do I care if people like it or not. Some days yes others no.

We´ll see.

Definitely won´t be cancelling after 7 days though. I AM going to see this through and come out of the other side.
p.m Also submitted a short blurb to the Writing Lab a 24 hour open slot to submit any piece of writing. I put in an overview on Andalucia written to submit to Matador for their destination section.

Wed 19/10/11

Working on the 2nd part of Assignment 1 putting together a list of 5 publications/websites to pitch articles to. Spent far too long looking through other students list pinching some and making my own growing list of places to approach (one day maybe).

Sun 23/10/11

Getting a bit disillusioned now. No response to either piece from Matador people, one or two student responses.
Want some feedback to get onto next piece and it´s slow. Very slow. Many more days and I can see me losing enthusiasm to do more.

Mon 24/10/11

Got some feedback from the Writing Lab on my Andalucia overview – don´t use abound or charm! Still nothing on first assignment it´s been a week now.

Tue 25/10/11

Put my first piece on transitions (going between present and past) into Writing Lab. Scary stuff, putting yourself up for critique.



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