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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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Holiday Home Exchange Experience

Over Christmas we had our first full house swap. We´d had a swap for a couple of nights in Frigiliana, my husband, youngest and I a few years ago. This time we wanted somewhere near Malaga so we could pick up the parents and son from the airport but away from the coastal strip.

Exchange Holiday Homes (EHH) is a site we´ve been registered with for a few years now, we´ve only had one actual swap in our rental house as we only ´swap´ it outside main holidays. This isn´t the only site we´re registered with but works better for us as it is based on a point system, is for holiday or second homes only and not a straight house-for-house swap.

Our Villa View


We needed a minimum of four bedrooms, no further than 45 minutes from the airport (as we´d be doing four runs) and somewhere new. Not an easy order but we found a lovely villa, sent our request to EHH who do all the contacting and were delighted when they came back saying the owner had accepted our request.

EHH is not a pay to join site but a pay on swap site. We paid 116 GBP for a 5 bedroom, 8 people, 10 day stay - not a bad deal at all!

Our Villa was actually the owners home during the winter months (they too went away for Christmas), so it was incredibly well equipped kitchen-wise, important for making Christmas lunch, and much more so than many holiday rentals.

When looking for a swap property there are always different considerations. This time it was the number of bedrooms, last time with just three of us it was the location and because we think it´s a fabulous scheme we´ve booked again in the UK next year which again is bedroom numbers rather than location dependant.

I´ve no reservations at all recommending swapping holiday homes or EHH, we´ve had great experiences so far and looking forward to more. The website is not the most user friendly but the service is better.

Do you have a swap story to share?
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