Wednesday 29th May 2013

Wednesday 29^th May 2013

We enjoyed our ‘Lightning tour’ of Cordoba yesterday. We are always rather limited in the amount of time we can spend in a city especially when we have to leave Pickles alone in the motorhome. We were fortunate with the cloudy weather which meant that the van was quite cool. Anyway we managed to take in most of the main attractions. Today we left the site early just after 8am. The sat nav took us right through the rush hour traffic in the city centre. We only took one wrong turn and soon managed to get on the motorway heading for El Rocio a small town just outside Huelva near the Portuguese border. We’d read about this town and knew what to expect, a town with no tarmac on the roads just sand. Its about 10 miles from the coast and what shocked us was the fact that the sand was soft and not hard compressed. It might be a bit of a novelty but hard work if you’re pushing an elderly dog around in a ‘pram’. Parts of the town look like a mexican cowboy town, main transport is either 4wd or a horse. I suppose the pictures tell you more about it.

The sandy road leading up to the beautiful church where thousands of pilgrims flock around the time of Pentecost.

10 miles from the sea but this marshland attracts all kinds of bird life and is enjoyed by  the many horses  who graze  around its edge.

Horse or 4wd? The entrance of the campsite actually has a 'no horses' sign.