{"id":1206,"date":"2016-03-13T23:09:55","date_gmt":"2016-03-13T23:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/?p=1206"},"modified":"2016-03-15T10:11:40","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T10:11:40","slug":"eurotrip-4-2016-day-29-to-day-30-rosaleda-rugby-and-medina-sidonia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/?p=1206","title":{"rendered":"Eurotrip 4, 2016 – Day 29 to Day 30, Rosaleda, Rugby and Medina Sidonia…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saturday was another rest day and an opportunity for Mo to take care of the laundry and to familiarise herself further with the additional duties she’s been assigned following Joe’s injury. Such fulfilling tasks as emptying the chemical toilet and ensuring the water barrel is fully topped up!<\/p>\n

Late afternoon and a packed bar saw England take on Wales in the six nations rugby and secure a thoroughly deserved win.<\/p>\n

Sunday and we decided to visit one of the local Andalucian hill-top towns. Wikipedia states: Medina-Sidonia is a city and municipality in the province of C\u00e1diz in the autonomous community of Andalusia, southern Spain. It is considered by some to be the oldest city in Europe, used as a military defense location due to its elevated location. Locals are known as Asidonenses. The city’s name comes from Medina (Arabic for city) and Sidonia (of Sidon), meaning “City of Sidon”.<\/p>\n

First of all, upon finding a car park, we were directed by a “local” in fluorescent jacket to our spot and charged 2 Euros. After leaving the car park, a true local stopped us and told us not to pay the guy in the yellow jacket – car parking was apparently free. Mo seemed to think his actions were somewhat entrepreneurial – I on the other hand think he deserved a good slapping… So beware who you pay for car parking in Spain!<\/p>\n

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Medina Sidonia was a fascinating place to look around and at this time of year, reasonably devoid of tourists. In fact, the town was very quiet until we found the main square around mid-afternoon. Every bar and restaurant was absolutely packed (mainly locals, no doubt some spending their car park fees) but we managed to find a table and enjoy a beer and Tapas for lunch.<\/p>\n

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We arrived back at Camping La Rosaleda just in time for the Rugby – Scotland vs France, followed by Lamb chops cooked on the Weber.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saturday was another rest day and an opportunity for Mo to take care of the laundry and to familiarise herself further with the additional duties she’s been assigned following Joe’s injury. Such fulfilling tasks as emptying the chemical toilet and ensuring the water barrel is fully topped up! Late afternoon and a packed bar saw … Continue reading Eurotrip 4, 2016 – Day 29 to Day 30, Rosaleda, Rugby and Medina Sidonia…<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2016-europe-spain","category-2016-europe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1207,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206\/revisions\/1207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}