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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 ...

Monday Morning Photo - Driving Nice Roads in Andalucia

Every so often on an exploratory trip hubby will declare ¨this is a nice road.¨ It´s taken a while but I´ve finally understood the difference between just any old road and a nice one.

Having driven from home (Jaén) to Malaga airport, on to Granada city centre and then back to Jaén I was feeling just a little jaded and more than fed up with autovias (dual carriageways.) I headed off towards Alcala la Real, the day was miserable and grey, the roads empty and the views spread out all around me.


Long empty A-340 in Jaen, Andalucia

Long sweeping bends with good vision, a foot hard-pressed and revelation crept in - this definitely hits the nice-road, easy-driving category.

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