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Zagan the motorhome is backed up against the white wall of the Estadio El Maul\u00ed<\/em> football ground in the new town area of Antequera north of Malaga. We’re in the town’s area de autocaravannas<\/em> (motorhome aire) opposite the grey walls of the juzgada<\/em>, the Magistrates Court (N37.02139, W4.57184)<\/a>. It’s free to stay in the parking area here and there’s also a free service point. Both have been built since we first visited Antequera back in 2012<\/a> and made do with a car park suggested by the tourist office. We’d come here to a Fiat dealer back then, hoping to get a worrying clonking noise with our van Dave’s ageing leaf-spring suspension fixed, after a month in bumpy Morocco. The aire is full every night, so an accepted overflow has developed in another parking area just around the corner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The motorhome aire in Antequera, Andalusia, Spain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It only took us an hour or so to drive here, including nipping into a petrol station after a few miles on the road to check the hot-wheel problem we’d had on the way to the reservoir had gone, which it had, phew. We’ve seen the inside of a few Spanish garages over the years, and they’ve always been very helpful, sometimes spending hours trying to sort an issue which didn’t exist (see ‘leaf spring problem’ above). That said, it’s always a relief when a problem resolves itself and you don’t have to head for the garage to mangle to poor local’s language! Once we’d checked the wheels, we spun round and brimmed off our tank with diesel, or at least the attendant did: it’s still attendant service at some fuel stations here in Spain: useful tip: ‘full please’ is ‘llano por favor<\/em>‘ and ‘llano’ is prounounced dyarno<\/em> here. Diesel was less than \u00a31 a litre. After that the road rolled through low hills covered in rows of olive trees, finally spiralling down through a pine forest and opening out onto the plain below Antequera, rounding the town and avoiding its tiny narrow streets before depositing us here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Looking north over Antequera. The motorhome aire is in the area to the far upper-left of the photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Antequera’s a lovely old town, well worth a visit if you’re travelling in the hills to the north of the Costa del Sol. This is our fourth visit here, having nipped in a couple of times in more recent years after the leaf spring issue, while we were house sitting at Valle de Abdalajis<\/a> to the south. There are a couple of significant local(ish, you’ll need transport) attractions which we’ve already seen, but are well worth a look-see if you’re around: <\/p>\n\n\n\n