The Road from Santiago

  I loved going through France on this trip because it was all new. I have enjoyed visiting familiar places and seeing how they connect. Today we are doing one of the things which means I am suddenly surprised.  I was streetviewing away when we hit a sign saying Archidona. Not having planned ahead it looked like a place to stop on our way to somewhere else.  Then it looked like a brand new settlement, built in the age of the car. Then we hit the old town. We start the day on the flat, then suddenly climb up 68m.  We will sink 200 more on the other side of the hill.  Las Rejas is the first place we get to in terms of having a coffee and a nibble.  It is mostly a morning and afternoon place for snacks. It opens at 6.30am and closes at 12.30pm.  I|t reopens from 3.30pm till 6 Monday to Thursday.  On Fridays it opens till Midnight.  Saturday is only open 8pm - Midnight and it is closed Sunday.  https://guias-viajes.com/spain/malaga/las-rejas...

  We are leaving for the west on the A-7200. I am guessing that this is the old road. It seems a decent stretch, a few modern 60kphs and even 40 for bends and the junctions with other roads. We are freeing ourselves of habitation and will have to make do with industry. Plasticos IMA SAU is a bit big.  I suspect the motorway junction is the reason for it being here.   They make pipes.  http://www.tuyper.com/   The website comes in Spanish, English, French and Portuguese flavours.  The website says ‘ TUYPER comprises two companies: Tuberías y Perfiles Plásticos, S.A.U. created in 1989, and Plásticos IMA S.A.U., which was incorporated in 1997 in order to meet the market’s strategic needs. In 2003 both companies joined Group Plásticos Ferro, GPF, with their two production centres strategically located in Lantarón (Álava) and Archidona (Málaga), to which in 2007 a logistics centre in A Cañiza (Pontevedra) was added.’ The place gets 115 reviews and 3.6  Five...