Hotel RL Ciudad de Ubeda
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The Route of the Nazrids
The Route of the Nazrids This was a trip to celebrate, albeit belatedly, our 15th wedding anniversary. After struggling to book via the official Parador website, www.paradors.es for some time without success, I gave up and booked through their appointed representative in London, www.keytel.com. A world of difference! After five minutes chatting to a very knowledgeable chap who had stayed in some of the Paradors on the route, I had booked the 3 night route through Cazorla, Ubeda and Jaen at ...
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
... you can ponder along this way, the malinos de vientos ( windmills ) are the most obvious, for it was these monstrous giants that so haunted El Quijote and with which he tried to battle.They flank the 12th century castle which is still being restored. All these mills have ben named, the first one being called Bolero. the second one has been transformed into the local tourist office and canteen. You can also climb the steps to the top of the mindmill. ...
Capella!
... proabably the 4th or so bullfight of the afternoon and I decided to go down into the actual ring to watch. This is possible because all around the inside of the ring there are small walls very close to the main wall that forms the ring. The space between the walls is just big enough for a human to slip inside, but too small for a bull. This way, spectators can watch from inside the ring, "ground-floor" seating so to speak, but be perfectly safe from the ...
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