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France Le Bec-Hellouin Campsite Le clos Saint Nicolas

Le Bec-Hellouin Camp site. Camping Le Clos Saint Nicolas

Le Bec-Hellouin Camp site. Camping Le Clos Saint Nicolas

Le Bec-Hellouin Camp site. Camping Le Clos Saint Nicolas

Bar, Restaurant, owners house playground for kids

Swimming pool and Bar,Restaurant

Le Bec-Hellouin Camp site. Camping Le Clos Saint Nicolas

Le Bec-Hellouin Camp site. Camping Le Clos Saint Nicolas

Swimming pool opens out in summer months

Le Bec-Hellouin Relaxing in the sun

Le Bec-Hellouin Camp site. Camping Le Clos Saint Nicolas

Le Bec-Hellouin Relaxing in the sun

 

France

Le Bec-Hellouin

neat cottages in Village more lovely interesting buildings in the village to see on a visit

Video filmed in a bar in Benidorm Spain

Spain

Benidorm

Bit of art in the main road through the Town

Benidorm

 Bit of art in the main road through the Town 

Spain

Basque Country north west Spain

Spain

Segovia Aqueduct

 Built by the Romans to supply water to the town from river nearby still works to this day.

Segovia Old Town

Lovely architecture in the town

Segovia Aqueduct

Town has town fortress wall

Entertainment area on Villamar campsite in Benidorm.

This is were some footage of Bargain Loving Brits in the Sun was filmed for channel 5 television. Also that is were Happy Days works, you would know who i am talking about if you had been a regular watcher of that program.

Granada

Granada Cathedral viewed from Alhambra Palace

Alhambra Palace

Alhambra Palace

Alhambra Palace

Granada

Views from Alhambra Palace

Alhambra Palace

Bell tower

Spain

Alhambra Palace Granada

View towards Sierra Nevada Mountains note the snow capped mountains

Benidorm

View of skyscrapers in Benidorm from Villamar Camp site majority of them are holiday resorts and hotels one of them was on comedy series "Benidorm" as Solana guise resort.

El Chorro

Railway coming out of a tunnel going into the Gorge enters another tunnel further on

Spain

El Chorro Gorge

see where the railway goes into a tunnel at end of girder bridge, board walk is just above the tunnel this is before they replaced the board walk with a new one

El Chorro Gorge

Crossing the bridge and negotiating the walk not for the faint hearted.

El Chorro Gorge

Board walk

Spain

El Chorro

  Hydro Electric Power Station fed from a lake behind that mountain

El Chorro

  Hydro Electric Power Station lower dammed Pool

El Chorro

 El Chorro village view from mountain above Hydro Electric Power Station

Tabernas Spain

Mini Holywood

Almeria desert location where the Spaghetti Western films were produced, Western Film sets are now used as tourist attractions. This is the only area in Europe designated as a desert.

Mini Holywood

During the day the actors perform cowboy type mini Stories.

Mini Hollywood

Mock-up of old spirit still

Tabernas Spain

Mini Hollywood

One of the actors having a break before next performance. 

Mini Hollywood

Indian Reservation

Mini Hollywood

Another view of the sets.

El Rocio Spain

Strange Town

The streets are just sand. Outside all the houses are the bars to tie up there horses have Fiestas with horse carts and horse parades various times in the year

This is real business not just for tourists

Traditional Spanish Flamenco dress shop for local residents tourists are welcome to browse and buy goods.

Strange shops

This is also a real business for the local residents to use fascinating to see inside these shops.

El Rocio Spain

Church Alter

El Rocio Spain

Town church

beautiful building inside

More sandy streets, the children are so used to there environment that they ride there bicycles on the soft sand where others cannot I know from first hand experience tried riding my bike there with no success.

More lovely buildings

Spain

Alora

Houses perched on cliff edge, you would think that because of the vast size of Spain that the Spaniards would not build houses in such a place.

Santa Maria

Vast sandy beach at Santa Maria this place is near Cadiz which is across the water in the distance.

Santa Maria

Bull ring venue

Spain

Santa Maria Church

Storks nesting high on the church parapets.

Santa Maria Church

 Storks nesting high on the church parapets.

Santa Maria Church

 Storks nesting high on the church parapets.

Santa Maria Church Parade

 Do not know the significance of the costumes

Video Church Parade Brass Band

Impressive Brass Band

Spain

Santa Maria Church

These Spanish churches always very decorative architecture with there carved stone work.

Santa Maria Church Parade

 Parade float appearing at the entrance 

Santa Maria Church Parade

You would think that this was KKK with there pointed headgear

Spain

Santa Maria Church Parade

Massive impressive religious structure at least a dozen beefy pall bearers underneath 

Santa Maria Church Parade

Pall bearers inside unable to see which way to go assistants outside speak to bearers  through those yellow grills giving directions. The men in the funny head gear are relief pall bearers, take it in turns to carry the float. Do not know what the ladder is for. Perhaps he is a window cleaner who has lost his way LoL.

Santa Maria Town hall

Ayuntamiento is Spanish for town hall Like many Spanish towns the town hall is a grand structure. 

float leaving town hall square

nearly at parade end.

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