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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 ...

Solo Traveler - An Unknown Trip to .....

Ok, so I now know where I´m off to and off to soon - I fly from Malaga airport at 6am (I know, ugghh) this Saturday to Oslo, Norway.

I´m so excited. I´ll admit none of the Low Countries were on my ´want-to-visit´list ´cos I don´t do cold. I´m the only one in the house when it´s snowing outside, and yes, it does snow here in the mountains of inland Andalucia at least once a year!

Now I´ve bought some fleecy insoles, de-mothballed my coat, found a hat and some gloves I can´t wait. My trip research, a part I love and find almost as good as the trip, is well under way. There´s so much to do and see there I now wish I´d taken some time off and made it a bit longer - oh well, next time - or maybe not as I´ve just read that Oslo is one of the top twenty most expensive cities in the world.

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