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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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Huerta Time - Veggie Gardening in Spain

I love this time of year, seeds sprouting and best of all being able to start eating what´s growing. Right now I´m picking salad leaves (seeds from UK), baby spinach, artichokes (actually they´re alcaciles that look like artichokes to me but less spiky I´m told) broad beans or habas as they are in Spanish. I love habas raw straight from the plant or boiled, fried in olive oil with jamon they´re just delicious.



In the UK I knew broad beans as a huge tough indigestible bean that I never bought having had enough as a kid. Here they´re sweet, tender and delicious picked and cooked immediately.

What else? Well the tomatoes, cucumbers, melons, watermelons, leeks, aubergines, potoatoes, jerusalem artichokes, runner beans, sweet potates and parnips also seeds from UK as I can´t find them here. So do I know what I´m doing? Nah. Just playing but loving it. Hubby made a rotavator so away we went in the garden (that´s too large for non-gardeners turned apprentices) in our holiday home Casa El Reguelo but finally we seem to have it under control and are proud of it.

Last year our first trial with potatoes and tomatoes was a huge success, we ate tomatoes three times a day at their peak and then stopped eating them when we had to buy hard flavourless shop bought ones.

We´ve also a walnut, almond, cherry, pear, pomegranate and nispero tree in the garden and the obigatory few olive trees outside the garden wall.

Any visitors to Casa El Reguelo is welcome to pick or dig your own, as well as weeding or not, whatever you fancy.


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