Husa Rosaleda de Don Pedro
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The Route of the Nazrids
... learn a lot more about olives, olive oil and the whole processing method. Hopefully, we will be able to find some sort of olive museum or educational facility on our travels. The scenery is wonderful and this Parador has proved a wonderful experience. So much of interest to see, hear about and experience we loved the 1930's hunting paraphernalia and trivia dotted around the 1960s(?) building and the open fire in the lounge just set the scene off perfectly. We hope to return for a longer ...
On the road again...
Walter started - woo hoo! We relunctantly left Granada and headed up north again, stopping after an easy 2 hour drive at the only campsite en route again - Santa Elena - it was almost empty again and so quiet and relaxing.
After lunch and ...
The final frontier
... olive trees and were somewhat slowed down by road works, which seem long overdue because the roads this side of Toledo certainly don´t match the quality of the toll roads we´ve been used to so far! We also saw a couple of solar panel 'farms', where a large area had been devoted to huge solar panels to generate green electricity. Well, it is very sunny here, so that's a no-brainer.
We spotted some more of the wooden bulls that ...
Consuegra, Almagro Santa Elena
... mills were used for grinding flour during their productive time. We parked Charlie at the bottom of the road and walked all the way uphill to the castle. It was to early to be able to enter the castle. It seems that a few rooms have been done up to show how the knights would have lived. A very interesting little stop over.
Next destination Almagro, about another 50 km from where we were. good roads all the way again. We had picked out the caravan ...
Capella!
... first 2 or 3 hours of the party we just milled around in groups, chatting, drinking and eating the copious amounts of tapas that the bar churned out. I had what I think is the Spanish equivalent of a mojito, it was not bad, though it was too strong for my tastes. I drank this veeerrryyy slowly, like, over the course of 2 hours, while constantly being told that I needed to eat something, or it would all go to my head.
In the brief few weeks that ...