{"id":2316,"date":"2018-02-14T22:13:39","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T22:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/?p=2316"},"modified":"2018-02-17T12:14:20","modified_gmt":"2018-02-17T12:14:20","slug":"eurotrip-7-2018-day-18-arcos-and-valentines-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/?p=2316","title":{"rendered":"Eurotrip 7, 2018 \u2013 Day 18, Arcos and Valentines day\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s Valentines day today. It hadn’t occurred to me before we left Blighty that finding cards over here in Spain might be equally as difficult as finding a wedding anniversary card in Croatia (last year)!<\/p>\n

Moe of course had apparently brought one she purchased last year, claiming that it wasn’t the one actually given last year but just an unsued one. Hmm. Work that out.<\/p>\n

Fortunately Amazon Prime came up trumps with a nicely deisgned, hand-decorated card, boxed with our new travel kettle. Bit of a cheek really because I had to pay about \u00a36 additional postage on each item for delivery to Conil and Amazon just popped them into the same outer box.<\/p>\n

The campsite laid on a four course meal in the evening which was excellent.<\/p>\n

During the day, we had visited another of the white Spanish villages.<\/p>\n

Arcos de la Frontera<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Arcos de la Frontera…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

One of Andalucia’s most dramatically positioned pueblos blancos (white villages), Arcos balances atop a rocky limestone ridge, its whitewashed houses and stone castle walls stopping abruptly as a sheer cliff face plunges down to the river Guadalete below.<\/p>\n

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Limestone ridge home to Arcos de la Frontera…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As it was still siesta time, we stopped at the terrace at the Parador Hotel on Plaza del Cabildo – this is the place to go for a leisurely drink and enjoy the best views in Arcos. It doesn’t look like it will be too long before the crumbling limescale ridge becomes a real issue for the monuments.<\/p>\n

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View from Hotel Parador terrace bar…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Castillo de Arcos (11th-15th-century castle), is a medieval castle of Moorish origin having been rebuilt almost entirely in the first half of the 15th century. Currently it is private property and not open to the public.<\/p>\n

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Castillo de Arcos de la Frontera…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Iglesia de San Pedro is a 15th-17th century church built on the site of a 14th century Al-Andalusian fortress or watchtower. Different styles can be observed here in its tower and facade.<\/p>\n

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Iglesia de San Pedro…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Arcos Town Hall…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The Spanish courtyards are simply stunning…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Andalucian Garden in Arcos…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Another view of the Town Hall…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Theatre Olivares in Arcos…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s Valentines day today. It hadn’t occurred to me before we left Blighty that finding cards over here in Spain might be equally as difficult as finding a wedding anniversary card in Croatia (last year)! Moe of course had apparently brought one she purchased last year, claiming that it wasn’t the one actually given last … Continue reading Eurotrip 7, 2018 \u2013 Day 18, Arcos and Valentines day\u2026<\/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":[47,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2018-europe-spain","category-2018-europe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2316","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=2316"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2335,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2316\/revisions\/2335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}