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CARMONA (not a back-seat driver)
Advantages: More history than you can shake a centurion's spear at
Disadvantages: May be too quiet for some
Carmona sits on an elevated piece of land commanding sweeping views of the Corbones valley, around 30km from Seville. This is a very fertile region so it's no surprise that this strategic site, one of the few high points in the area, has been settled by humans for a long time.
How long?
I'm not going down the road of historical time-lines, but let's just say that there is evidence of human settlement from the neolithic period.
It was during the ...
...town still follows the original Roman urban plan. The defensive gates, Seville and Cordoba, are Roman, but the most important Roman site in the town has to be the Necropolis (more on that later).
The town's prosperity continued under almost 500 years of Moorish occupation, and indeed, was a major player during the reconquest of Granada.
But enough of the past, let's explore the town in the present.
The reason we had decided to stay here was two-fold, ...
 proxam 06.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Carmona, Seville
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Location , hillside campsite
Advantages: Location, facilities
Disadvantages: None
...http://www.campingvallderibes.com/english/preuseng/preusacampadaeng.htm.
As well as camping places for tents and caravans there are some wooden chalet bungalows available. The price peak season 599 euros for 7 nights for 4 people in a chalet they will sleep 6 you pay a little extra for the 5th and 6th person.
The is campsite is on a hill overlooking the valley but there are flat terraces for the camping, the tents on two lower terraces. The places ...
...between the camping places. We choose to camp in the lee of the mountain so we would be shaded in the morning the camping placings the other side of the track got the sun earlier. We did not need electricity but there are points to hook up to electricity. The camp site is not crowded and noisy
This campsite has good facilities. No need for a big supermarket on site there are supermarkets 5 mins walk away, but I seem to remember we could buy milk ...
 mumsymary 23.12.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Camping Vall de Ribes
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Souvenirs of Paradise
Advantages: Beautiful
Disadvantages: tourists found it!
San Pedro, in the natural park of the Cabo de Gata, along the Costa de Almeria, in Andalusia, was such an exceptional place that I kept it to myself for over 15 years! But the inevitable has happened, and people will always talk about good things, which has lead to a profound and sad change of this, what used to be, paradise on earth!
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...that I first heard of San Pedro, 20 years ago. It was during my holidays in Mojacar, not so far north from San Pedro, that my curiosity got me there. To get to San Pedro, I took a bus from Almeria, to Las Negras. Once on Las Negras beach, I turned left and walked over the cliffs, for a good 3 of 4 kilometers along a sometimes very narrow path, by the sea front. Now this is at the same time the advantage, and the disadvantage of San Pedro. It's a ...
bodsquidge 05.02.2008 · Read full review
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Review of San Pedro, Spain
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A beautiful City
Advantages: Beautiful city
Disadvantages: None
Today I'm going to write about the city where i have lived all my live: Valladolid.
Valladolid has more or less 320.000 inhabitants and is the capital of the Spanish state of "Castilla-León" It's in the north part of the country, less than 200 km from Madrid.
It's both an industrial and cultural capital and presents a very well preserved historical center with very significant buildings and churches from the Golden Spanish Age, many of them from ...
...Spanish Empire during the XVIth century (until 1559 and again from 1601 to 1606, precisely). It was as well one of the cities where the Castilian writer Cervantes (the writer of "Don Quijote de La Mancha") lived.
The city is crossed by several rivers, the most important is the river Pisuerga, which flows into the river Duero few kilometers far from the city (which flows into the Atlantic Ocean in the Portuguese city of Porto), and the surrounding ...
Blancag 18.02.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Valladolid, Spain
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I'll be back!
Advantages: cheap shoppig
Disadvantages: a very ugly place
...away to be precise.
La Jonquera is the border town when you pass the customs from France into Spain, and more precisely, on the east coast, that is, mediterranean side. It is known for its cheap shopping, and is pretty much always crowded all year around for this reason.
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When you get there, the first reaction is that ...
...couple of stops before leaving La Jonquera.... Diesel at the petrol station, which cost 0,10cents less than in France per liter, and last, but not least, the tobaccos.... Now this is where we queued the most... a good 10 minutes before reaching the counter, where at least 5 people served their clients at a time. But it was worth the wait... we bought a pack of Golden Virginia, that is 10 packets of 50 grams each, for 43€ (£28), and 3 cartons of Camel ...
bodsquidge 29.12.2006 · Read full review
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Review of La Jonquera, Spain
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Acer Aspire 6920G
 Blu-ray, full HD, built in 5.1, HDMI, performance, media controls, battery life (*)
Sony Vaio PCG-SR31K
Notebook - 10.4 in - CPU: Pentium III - 750 MHz - RAM: 64 MB - Battery run time: 3.5 hour(s)
Samsung LE40B530
Great HD picture, great black levels, good size screen for the price, nice remote control (*)
Gear4 Houseparty 4
Audio Home System - 15 Watts - Channels: 2 (Stereo) - without CD Player / Recorder - No
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