Andalucia Day 61 Back home

We are in the car from eight o'clock and it takes us an hour to do the last 66 kilometres home. We left on 13th September 2028 and arrived home on 12th November, after covering 6807 kilometres by car and 727 kilometres on foot. We brought home just a handful of shells, some almonds to shell given to us in Arcos de la Frontera, a candle from the monastery Cartuja near Jerez de la Frontera, e tiny tiger's eye polished stone I bought for 1 euro at El Torcal, two oven gloves from AleHop with writing in Spanish to the effect that food prepared with love nourishes the heart, 2 jars of Ali-oli, two jars of Andalusian olives, a  couple of kilos of dried figs, a kilo of dried ginger and half each of almonds and fried salted almonds, a quantity I prefer not to disclose of bottles of Fino, Vermouth and Pedro Ximenez, hundreds of photos and memories, awe for the many spectacular places we've been so lucky to visit, gratitude for the fact that all the people we came into contact with were friendly kind and welcoming, that we had no real problems and were able to do the trip, a little nostalgia, romantically for some of the beautiful places and prosaically for the excellent food and drink and light, a lot more confidence in getting outside our comfort zone and doing something a little different from the daily routine, and, especially an enormous well of experiences to mull over, talk about and also learn from over the coming weeks.

If you are following this blog, I'll be adding some more 'impressions' and practical information about our Andalucía trip and then posting our shorter holidays over the past three years in Malaga and then in Bari, Brindisi, Sardegna and Sicily in Italy.