{"id":786,"date":"2015-05-13T11:18:19","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T11:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/?p=786"},"modified":"2015-05-14T20:19:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T20:19:00","slug":"2015-europe-spain-eurotrip-3-2015-day-22-el-rocio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/?p=786","title":{"rendered":"Eurotrip 3, 2015 &#8211; Day 22, El Rocio&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The main reason for visiting El Rocio was to explore the Donana National park. We expected it to be somewhat like the New Forest which it is and it isn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Firstly, much of the National Park is not open to the unaccompanied public &#8211; so the idea of exploring the area on the bikes isn&#8217;t an option.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, it&#8217;s just so hot that the only time of day when it&#8217;s cool enough to walk or cycle is between about 08:00 and 10:30. Now I know why the Spanish enjoy their Siestas.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_797\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-797\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20150513_151302.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-797\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20150513_151302-300x156.jpg\" alt=\"El Rocio Sanctuary of the Virgin\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20150513_151302-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20150513_151302-1024x531.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20150513_151302-767x398.jpg 767w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-797\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">El Rocio Sanctuary of the Virgin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Today we visited the church in El Rocio which is home to the Virgin El Rocio. The Virgin is the reason 1 million people and 30,000 horses will descend on this village of\u00a0900 residents\u00a0&#8211; next week!<\/p>\n<p>Dinner was the 10 Euro three course menu of the day at the campsite restaurant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The main reason for visiting El Rocio was to explore the Donana National park. We expected it to be somewhat like the New Forest which it is and it isn&#8217;t. Firstly, much of the National Park is not open to the unaccompanied public &#8211; so the idea of exploring the area on the bikes isn&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/?p=786\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Eurotrip 3, 2015 &#8211; Day 22, El Rocio&#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-786","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\/786","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=786"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":804,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions\/804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}