{"id":3061,"date":"2022-03-16T14:43:18","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T14:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tappstravels.co.uk\/?p=3061"},"modified":"2022-03-16T14:43:18","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T14:43:18","slug":"spain-9-sunday-lunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tappstravels.co.uk\/?p=3061","title":{"rendered":"SPAIN 9. SUNDAY LUNCH."},"content":{"rendered":"

The weather forecast hereabouts is either very accurate or wildly wrong.\u00a0 Sunday was predicted to be wet all day.\u00a0 It turned out to be a lovely day.\u00a0 We drove to Olvera and parked sensibly at the entrance to the old town – but quite possibly in a residents’ only space.\u00a0 Still it’s Sunday, and anyway the residents are parked on yellow lines, on the pavements and on roundabouts.\u00a0 I think the local police are generous in their interpretation of the rules.\u00a0 Fingers crossed!<\/p>\n

The town is very quiet…<\/p>\n

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… until we get to the little square just below the church and castle.\u00a0 This is where we find all the locals in the Bar La Plaza presumably having just been to church.\u00a0 Twenty minutes later they all disappeared and left the square to us and a couple eating lunch.\u00a0 Religion and socialising done, it’s time for a siesta!<\/p>\n

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It was just a short walk from here to the Plaza de la Iglesia.\u00a0 About 100m north and 100m up!\u00a0 The church is snappily named El Iglesia arciprestal y parroquial Nuestra Se\u00f1ora de la Encarnaci\u00f3n!<\/p>\n

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… and with a name like that it has to be visible from miles away!<\/p>\n

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… and, immediately adjacent, the castle with its 2500 steps to the top (actually only about 175, but it felt a lot more!).<\/p>\n

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Phenomenal, 360 degree views from the very top…<\/p>\n

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After all the excitement of minute spiral stairwells with treads the size of slices of twelve inch pizzas and of dungeons in the sky, it was time for Sunday lunch.\u00a0 Well, it was nearly 4pm!\u00a0 Unusually, the tourist office gave us a couple of recommendations.\u00a0 Bar restaurante El Puerto was certainly a great suggestion.\u00a0 By 5.30 we were on first name terms with Diego a three year old on the next table.<\/p>\n

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Now, here are a couple of useful facts:<\/p>\n

Overall, British golf courses are calculated to cover an area almost the same as that covered, in total, by housing.\u00a0 And secondly, surprising though it may seem, peat bog covers almost seven times as much land as all of Britain’s buildings.<\/p>\n

Just thought I’d mention that!<\/p>\n

Oh, and our parking spot was fine, by the way!\u00a0 But we did have to wait ten minutes to reverse down the one-way street onto a roundabout, because it was totally blocked by a police car while the officers bought cakes in the local patisserie!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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