Sanlucar de Barrameda, Spain

Saturday we drove to Sanlucar to take a boat tour of the National Park of Donana. We saw wild deer and boars. Afterwards we went to the Barbadillo Manzanilla Museum, which we were only able to find by following a really friendly Spanish man with a dog ...

... wooly-headed, we ventured to Bonanza, the port from which Columbus's ship set sail, a supposed 5 kilometres up river from Sanlucar. We must have done those five kilometres three times, forever ending-up in the city centre, inevitably facing the wrong ...

... coast to the mouth of the Guadalquivir river and the edge of the Coto Donana wetlands park. We arrive at Sanluca de Barrameda. A tiny fishing village and the exact departure point of Columbus and Magellan's famous voyages of discovery. We'd signalled the ...