Córdoba, Seville & El Rocio

Here are some pics of our last few days in Spain (about 10 days ago) Córdoba, bullring in Seville and El Rocio. El Rocio is near the boarder of Portugal and what a place!!!! A town full of horses, celebrations and sand, never seen anything like Thank you Gail Becker and ColnRo Koenig for suggesting we go there.

Bridge at Cordoba

Another view of bridge at Cordoba

Seville Bull Ring, the arena being prepared
for its first fight of the season on 27 March

El Rocio, a town where the roads are all sand and
there are more horses than cars

The children get around the town in horse
and carts

We felt like we were in the middle of a Wild
West Country movie scene!
Dust and horses everywhere

The streets of El Rocio were full of sand,
 horses, carts, wagons, people, pilgrims
and lots of celebrating, fun and happiness

The marshlands at El Rocio, a lot of people
come here to bird watch - I think John might
have been doing some other kind of bird watching?

Over a million Spaniards and foreigners visit this
 small village, El Rocio each year on a pilgrim trail
to see the shrine in this church. They come by foot,
 horse, horse and cart, carriage and vehicle. It
was quite an emotional experience watching the
 pilgrims arrive.

The Wild Wild West!

I'm not sure what we were thinking when we rode
our bikes into town? We didn't get very far in the
sand, we chained them up and walked in. We
 laughed, as last time we rode our bikes we were
caught in a sandstorm in the desert, this time we
got caught in a sandpit !