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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 ...

Duncan Peterson's Charming Small Hotels Guides - Spain and the Islands

The full title of this guide is - Charming Small Hotel Guide for Spain and the Islands stylish city hotels, captivating country hotels, and other places to stay. It sells itself well. The guide, now in its 11th edition, differs from others in more ways than one. I like the fact that it's an independently-inspected guide and no hotel pays to be in it.

Charming Hotels is what caught my attention, that means (to me) that they have a cosy feel, are small and probably owner run. As the book description on Amazon says

....Every entry is more than just a bed for the night: it's an experience, worth planning a holiday around, or going out of your way for.

That's the sort of hotel I look for when planning an escape and here within the guides 302 pages there's a fair few to begin to plan a route around. Mmmm where to first? Posada de Palacio in Sanlucar de Barrameda looks very nice as do ... well all of them.

It's available to purchase (as I did) via Amazon.co.uk but I couldn't find it on Amazon.com.

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