Fifteen hundred miles done and have arrived at the bottom at last, near Tarifa on the coast. Spent a second strange night in a room of bunk beds. The building echoes and the effect of jabbering of children and the bunks has begun to make me feel like one. So might has well have a very random geography lesson, in list form. Some of it isn't geography, because the list was compiled whilst travelling.
The list, as it happened:
Left orange blossom county and drove through cereal country.
Bare earth
Barely anything
Potatoes
Pollution on the distant horizon
Got lost for a time
Cyclists abound. Discussion about collective noun. A cluster of cyclists? A lycra of cyclists?
Very lost. Followed signs to town of Moron, reached dead end.
Took Autovista, did a huge circle .adding a few miles
Drove through mix of Cork Oaks and vines.
Could see hills of Sierra de San Juan in the distance.
Celebrated successful navigation through Moron with coffee stop at 'sticky, dog poo, house of horrors road stop.
Provided you didn't look around\up, the coffee was ok..
Devon-like Spanish countryside of winding roads, through hills with smaller fields and green farmland.
Cyclists still popping up.
Driving repeatedly in and out of Cadiz and Seville Provinces.
Passed through town of Coripe - bright white - prickly pears - more Moorish than Devon.
Went passed Medina Sidonia and couldn't remember history association??
Re-entered wind turbine country.
Stopped for a break and mini-Sunday lunch at Paterna de Rivera, at traditional bar restaurant. Couldn't work out what we were eating- v. confounding eggy dishes. Mine seemed to contain green bitter twigs and strange mushroom/meaty lumps and more.
Friendly hubbub of conversation a contrast to last night's kid-screaming fest.
First signpost to 'playas' - and the sea. I'm on holiday! Bring on the cozzie (swimming).
Can't resist a roof or two and some washing
Can't resist peeking inside people's open front doors
That list is fantastic, it reads like a poem! Loved going on the journey with you via the poem. Funny, Medina Sidonia is v familiar to me too, but I've also no idea why...
ReplyDeleteI've got a lot of blog-reading catching up to do because it's been a busier-than-average week.
Presented at the forestry conference last week (where the very proud chief forester for the Duchy of Cornwall read out a message from HRH himself!) and spent Saturday meeting/presenting to the impassioned locals at a community fire ecology forum. Pete came along and we spent Sat night in Melb and went to the comedy festival. All good but I'm happy to have a relatively uneventful week at home!