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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 - Museum & Bar, El Torcal

Yes, I know it´s late. It is really Tuesday evening but I´m desperately trying to keep up the weekly photo.

We´ve just returned from an Antequera, dolmen and El Torcal trip, passing a bar/restaurant/museum after leaving the fabulous rocky formations of El Torcal I spotted, and as I was driving did a quick unexplained U-turn to explore, Molino Blanco Restaurante and Museo.


And as one photo is not enough...


Crammed full of ancient implements adorning every nook and cranny it was just our thing. Hubby had a field day ¨Dad had one of those.¨ ¨Look at that! ¨I could use that now!¨ ¨That´s just like the one I had.¨

I´ve no idea whether the restaurant is any good but the coffee was decent, so were the loos. There´s loads of parking and a kids room but we loved the whole set-up and the fact it was early, too early for a coffee stop, meant it had just opened and there weren´t any other customers to annoy only the owner.


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