One of our major goals for this campaign is to visit Seville's April
Feria once more...one of the world's more exciting and colorful social gatherings, and something we enjoyed immensely in 2013. So on May 1st we undertook the long drive (280 miles) from Salamanca to Seville, stopping for lunch by the Rio Tajo...just upstream from the
Great Roman Bridge at Alcantara, one of the highlights of my continuing classical education...and then at Malpartida, near Caceres, to look at some rocks, and birds, and then some pigs.
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Old structure...with storks..near Malpartida |
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We were looking for the Monumento Natural Los Barruecos; we like weird rocks |
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But first, storks |
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Spain has a serious population growth problem |
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And so the government is doing everything it can to encourage delivery of babies |
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Establishing stork refuges like this one |
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Lower left, largest braille notice ever... |
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Weird rocks, Los Barruecos, across the pond |
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The rocks are all over the countryside, extending all the way to Alcantara |
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Bluebonnets? |
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Oak/acorn/pig country |
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Seriously, we saw some of the big black/brown oinkers as we whizzed by...bellota! |
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