Posada del Castano
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Iberia Experience
On the 23rd September we were due to fly from London Heathrow via Madrid to Seville with Iberia. However, we were delayed by over an hour so completely missed our connection in Madrid and the next flight wasn't for another 6-7 hours. We managed to meet up with the rest of the group and got on an earlier flight to Jerez so on arrival we had a 3.5 …
Walking to Aracena
Today we had a long day of walking ahead of us starting in Castano del Robledo and heading to Aracena. My pictures will explain more than my words so just a brief summary, we started out in Castano in woodland where it was freezing as the sun had yet to break through, here we saw a black and yellow salamander which was quite cool and some dung …
My First and Last Experience of Biking
This morning our bus got stuck trying to navigate around the small village so we had to wait for another before heading off on our cycling trip. We started the day by getting some supplies at the supermarket in Aracena before heading to Hinojales where we collected our bikes.
I knew it wasn't a good start when I fell off my bike before we' …
Horse Riding
I had just about recovered from the cycling by this morning although felt no need to ever ride a bike again. Today we had the optional horse riding, the majority of the group chose to do it and we were going to be doing a 4-4.5 hour ride on Andalusian/Arabs.
It was raining when we arrived and we got kitted out in hats and ponchos, helped …
Ruta de la Plata, Day 1
... first Roman road. Long, straight, undulating, so we took off.
After about 15 minutes, we hit mud which turned to clay and it clogged up the front wheels on both mine and Lucy's bike. This is a problem with having old bikes !!! It took ages before we got going again, but once we did, we didn't hold back
We were going through grape country but they had been cut back so there was to be no eating. The Ks flew by, but Lucy and ...