On Saturday night we had to move our car from its usual spot because of the procession. We left it until Monday morning when we had planned to explore the hinterland and another dam. However, we found that the local vandals (probably a contingent of Spain's 40% youth unemployment) had done a fair job on the new Citroen. Both windscreen wipers bent beyond repair and a nice 'keying' across the bonnet and the offside mirror plus the offside front door. We have ordered the new wipers and are having them fittted tomorrow. Nothing to be done about the scratches but whilst it has been glorious weather here I certainly did not want to tempt fate and risk a downpour with defective wipers (it's dicey enough driving around here without any additional handicaps).
We had an uneventful drive through the hills to a small village called Iznajar on the banks of the Embalse de Iznajar. Did not do enough research and assumed (silly me ) that the village would be on the banks of the dam. It turned out to be the classic Moorish village centered on the top of an inpenetrable hill. Well it was inpenetrable for us anyway because no way could we find the way to the top. The only option was to go to the bottom and park and shank's it to the top. But we gave that option a miss seeing the temp was mid 30's and it was mid day. The pic below gives one an idea of the problem (and you can't tell how narrow the streets are).
We plan to do a trip to the coast soon and will certainly do more research and may even stop over for a night even though it's only about 100km.
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