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Although some of the residents appear planted here for the duration it is time for us to move on from this delightful location. There is a service point outside so while we line up for that Ali pops back to the market to get some fresh fish.
From the service point it's only two miles to a Dia % supermarket where we stop to stock up on things not available in town, then it's a 75 yard trip across the road to get diesel so by the time we actually start our journey it is after noon.
The scenery heading back north is even prettier than the other day as the light is better. It is a little bit Tuscan, with chalky soil and rolling fields, but in other places it is green and dead flat. The town of Lebrija looks as if it was funded on an island the size of St Michael's Mount, suggesting that these flatlands were once an estuary.
After a short lunch stop we approach Seville for yet another trip across the big suspension bridge. Looking down we can see the camperstop of a few days ago, and in the port we spot one of the cargo ships that rumbled past us, in from the sea, at Sanlucar.
Away from Seville we head west then south through some beautiful scenery; farms, olive groves, long forests of sand pine and more farms.
We reach El Rocio and check in at the La Aldea campsite. It's a tidy site and very peaceful, and finally, four weeks from our departure we have a functioning washing machine, so Ali spends a couple hours laundering the heavy stuff like towels and jumpers which are not so easy to do in the van.
In the evening we have salmon with peas fresh out of their pods and new potatoes.
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