{"id":766,"date":"2015-05-12T21:42:54","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T21:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/?p=766"},"modified":"2015-05-14T11:19:05","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T11:19:05","slug":"2015-europe-spain-eurotrip-2015-day-21-winter-isnt-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/?p=766","title":{"rendered":"Eurotrip 3, 2015 &#8211; Day 21, Winter isn&#8217;t coming&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As is not said on Game of Thrones &#8220;Winter isn&#8217;t coming&#8221;. We are caught up in\u00a0the mother of all\u00a0heat waves here amidst the arid semi desert of the south western Spanish province of Andalusia. And it&#8217;s hot. Very hot.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<dl id=\"attachment_776\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 310px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20150512_155550.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-776\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20150512_155550-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"New Weather symbol\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20150512_155550-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20150512_155550-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20150512_155550-767x575.jpg 767w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd\">New Weather symbol<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p>So hot that today\u00a0we spotted a new symbol on the weather website. One which isn&#8217;t seen to often in blighty.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow we had planned a full 10 hours tramping around Sevilla but the forecast\u00a0is 41 degrees (for all you folks stuck in blighty at the moment, that&#8217;s centigrade not fahrenheit &#8211; it&#8217;s just shy of 106 F). So, trip cancelled due to inclement weather and the priority will be to keep cool.<\/p>\n<p>Today we managed to walk to the supermarket and back in the centre of El Rocio.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_775\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-775\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20150512_142158.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-775\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20150512_142158-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"El Rocio buildings\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20150512_142158-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20150512_142158-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20150512_142158-767x575.jpg 767w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-775\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">El Rocio buildings<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>What an interesting place. A few dirt (well sand actually) roads and next week, there will be a million pilgrims here.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_768\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-768\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20150512_141149.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20150512_141149-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"El Rocio transport\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20150512_141149-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20150512_141149-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20150512_141149-767x575.jpg 767w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-768\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">El Rocio transport<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The heat was oppressive, the streets are just sand (it&#8217;s better for the horses) and if one took away the cars, it&#8217;s just like the wild west.<\/p>\n<p>Mo is struggling in the heat &#8211; so much so she even went in the cold swimming pool later this afternoon. More of that to come I&#8217;m certain, but sadly no photographic evidence.<\/p>\n<p>El Rocio is famous for\u00a0its annual pilgrimage which takes place next week. Campsite places top 150 Euros per night (we are paying 16 Euros per night via the ACSI scheme presently).<\/p>\n<p>We were planning to be well clear by next weekend but, have to say, we are mildly curious about the festival. Mo has gone to find out if there are any pitches available &#8211; will report back on that tomorrow&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I think I might\u00a0create a &#8220;special post&#8221; to cover El Rocio festival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As is not said on Game of Thrones &#8220;Winter isn&#8217;t coming&#8221;. We are caught up in\u00a0the mother of all\u00a0heat waves here amidst the arid semi desert of the south western Spanish province of Andalusia. And it&#8217;s hot. Very hot. &nbsp; New Weather symbol So hot that today\u00a0we spotted a new symbol on the weather website. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/?p=766\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Eurotrip 3, 2015 &#8211; Day 21, Winter isn&#8217;t coming&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2015-europe-spain","category-2015-europe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766","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=766"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":788,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions\/788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}