Wednesday 29th 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.
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| The sandy road leading up to the beautiful church where thousands of pilgrims flock around the time of Pentecost. |
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| 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. |
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| Horse or 4wd? The entrance of the campsite actually has a 'no horses' sign. |
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