{"id":34135,"date":"2019-03-08T15:44:43","date_gmt":"2019-03-08T15:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourtour.co.uk\/home\/?p=34135"},"modified":"2021-06-14T16:04:13","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T15:04:13","slug":"about-turn-to-badajoz-when-plans-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourtour.co.uk\/home\/about-turn-to-badajoz-when-plans-change\/","title":{"rendered":"About Turn to Badajoz&#8230; When Plans Change."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Zagan the motorhome is breathing a sigh of relief. After a three hour drive, he arrived to find one solitary space left on the free aire in Badajoz (<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"N38.88462 W6.97796 (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=loc:38.88462,-6.97796\" target=\"_blank\">N38.88462 W6.97796<\/a>), Spain. He&#8217;s squeezed himself in between a mix of nationalities, and is settled for the weekend. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"612\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/badajoz-1024x612.jpg\" alt=\"Badajoz Motorhome Aire Spain\" class=\"wp-image-34141\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/badajoz.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/badajoz-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/badajoz-768x459.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/badajoz-705x421.jpg 705w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/badajoz-450x269.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Badajoz motorhome aire &#8211; perfectly placed next to a park and river with a short walk over a bridge to the old town<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The eagle-eyed among you will realised that this is the opposite direction to where we were going as of yesterday. Our plans to head north to Madrid for a few days seeing the city have been put on hold. After realising how much a couple of hours walking (hobbling really) around the Mezquita in Cordoba took out of me, it was time to reassess our plans. Realistically a big city like Madrid probably wouldn&#8217;t be a great place for us right now. When we visited <a href=\"https:\/\/ourtour.co.uk\/home\/paris-by-motorhome-camping-de-paris\/\">Paris in our motorhome<\/a> last year, we were walking around 10 miles each day, my still <a href=\"https:\/\/ourtour.co.uk\/home\/a-coffee-with-the-doctor-dona-mencia-cordoba\/\">bruised and bandaged knee<\/a> just isn&#8217;t up to that. So, it was time to get the map out and fire up our <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Park4Night (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.park4night.com\" target=\"_blank\">Park4Night<\/a> app.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite the wind and driving rain in Montoro, Jay managed a 21 mile run in the hills, while I shuffled to the pharmacy twice for dressings (didn&#8217;t get the right stuff first time &#8211; doh!). I have to confess that I am finding it a bit hard to cope with not being able to get out and run. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I never really like the idea of going for a run, but I always feel great afterwards. Having that taken away, if only for a few weeks, is hard. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"546\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/montoro-1024x546.jpg\" alt=\"Montoro\" class=\"wp-image-34142\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/montoro.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/montoro-300x160.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/montoro-768x410.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/montoro-705x376.jpg 705w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/montoro-450x240.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Montoro in a break in the rain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>After quite a lot of head scratching, we crafted a new plan &#8211; that&#8217;s the beauty of motorhoming, you can go where you want. The border between Spain and Portugal has many interesting cities and, as they aren&#8217;t big cities, some have aires close to the centre, which makes for easy exploring. So, it was about turn and set off back along the motorway in the opposite direction to the way we had driven just a couple of days earlier. After two hours a tower came into view on the horizon, not a medieval castle tower, but more like a factory chimney. The strange thing was we could see lights pointing up in the sky next to the tower. At this point Jay got a little bit excited, he&#8217;d read about what we were seeing the other day. We were driving past the Gemasolar &#8211; a new kind of solar power plant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"490\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/gemasolar2-1024x490.jpg\" alt=\"Gemasolar Tower, Spain\" class=\"wp-image-34138\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/gemasolar2.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/gemasolar2-300x144.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/gemasolar2-768x368.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/gemasolar2-705x337.jpg 705w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/gemasolar2-450x215.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Gemasolar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Fancying a closer look, we came off the motorway and followed the road as close to the base of the tower as we could get. You see the tower is surrounded by over two and a half thousand mirrors, or <em>heliostats <\/em>if you want the technical term. The mirrors move around to reflect and focus the sunlight onto the top of tower. Molten salt is pumped up to the top of the tower and the sunlight heats it up. The hot salt is then used to generate steam, which drives a turbine to produce energy. It puts Zagan&#8217;s solar panel to shame as it can generate 17 Megawatts of energy, enough to power 25,000 homes (or the same as around 170,000 of our solar panels!). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"638\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/gemasolar-1024x638.jpg\" alt=\"Gemasolar\" class=\"wp-image-34139\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/gemasolar.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/gemasolar-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/gemasolar-768x479.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/gemasolar-705x439.jpg 705w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/gemasolar-450x280.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Up close you couldn&#8217;t see the light beams.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We think the tower may have been offline when we were there as the sunlight wasn&#8217;t hitting the top of it, we&#8217;ve seen photos of when it does and it really glows. If you want to know more about it as I&#8217;ll admit my explanation isn&#8217;t the best, the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" label=\"Gemasolar website (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.energy.sener\/projects\/gemasolar\" target=\"_blank\">Gemasolar website<\/a> will give you answers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"520\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/gemasolar5-1024x520-1024x520.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-34149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/gemasolar5-1024x520.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/gemasolar5-1024x520-300x152.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/gemasolar5-1024x520-768x390.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/gemasolar5-1024x520-705x358.jpg 705w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/gemasolar5-1024x520-450x229.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>It&#8217;s much more impressive from above. Image copyright Torresol Energy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>After being politely told not to take any photos of the tower by a bloke driving around the place in a car, possibly security, we headed back to the motorway. A short ten minute drive brought us to Fuentes de Andalucia. The town created motorhome parking places and a service point last year (<a href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=loc:37.47342,-5.35032\">N37.47342, W5.35032<\/a>), with a view of the Gemasolar in case it started glowing, so it would rude not to stop the night. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/fuentes-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Motorhome Aire Fuentea de Andalucia\" class=\"wp-image-34143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/fuentes.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/fuentes-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/fuentes-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/fuentes-705x397.jpg 705w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/fuentes-450x253.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Motorhome Aire Fuentes de Andalucia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Here I hit a low point. We started to walk into the town for a look around but my knee was very uncomfortable. I had just changed the dressing which doesn&#8217;t help as I don&#8217;t like the sight of blood, especially not my own. Not feeling the love for walking, I let Jay carry on and headed back to Zagan for a little cry. Frustration had got the better of me. When Jay came back he told me that I hadn&#8217;t really missed much, a few baroque-fronted churches, some bars and a Chinese shop. He was trying to make me feel better, but I was gutted I missed the Chinese shop &#8211; I love those places, and we are in need of a potato peeler so I have an excuse to go in one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"632\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/stork-1024x632.jpg\" alt=\"Stork on a communications tower\" class=\"wp-image-34140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/stork.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/stork-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/stork-768x474.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/stork-705x435.jpg 705w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/stork-450x278.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Stork on the communications tower opposite the aire &#8211; I&#8217;m not sure who was watching whom<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I picked myself up and made an extra effort for tea, learning how to make lemon butter sauce to go with our hake fillets, spinach, broccoli and mashed potato (skins on!). This morning I tied a bin liner around my knee and had my first shower in over a week. It was great to be able to wash my hair again, without having to rely on Jay, and I feel so much better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/partridge-1024x506.jpg\" alt=\"Partridge\" class=\"wp-image-34144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/partridge.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/partridge-300x148.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/partridge-768x380.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/partridge-705x348.jpg 705w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/partridge-450x222.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Spotted in the field next to the aire &#8211; along with goats, donkeys, horses and barking dogs there&#8217;s plenty to see and hear!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We left Fuentes de Andalucia under a blanket of cloud and headed towards Seville. Having <a href=\"https:\/\/ourtour.co.uk\/home\/tapas-spells-party-in-sevilla\/\">visited the city in 2012<\/a> we didn&#8217;t mind scooting around the edge of the city and blasting north on the motorway to here. We have full cupboards after a big supermarket shop and full LPG tanks as we topped up on our way here. We&#8217;ll be able to take our time to explore the city over the weekend and maybe find ourselves a tasty menu del dia. Have a great weekend wherever you are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ju x<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PS. After the big food shop we got talking about the price of food in various European countries. Jay found <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"this report (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php\/Comparative_price_levels_for_food,_beverages_and_tobacco\" target=\"_blank\">this report<\/a> which sort of confirms what we have been thinking &#8211; supermarket prices in Spain are similar to those in the UK (for food and non-alcoholic drinks &#8211; the booze is much cheaper), and prices in France are more expensive than both Spain and the UK. We&#8217;ll be stocking up again before we head over into France!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zagan the motorhome is breathing a sigh of relief. After a three hour drive, he arrived to find one solitary space left on the free aire in Badajoz (N38.88462 W6.97796), Spain. He&#8217;s squeezed himself in between a mix of nationalities, and is settled for the weekend. 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