Apparently in Arboleas there's an oil plant where locals take their olives. They are given x Litres of oil for y kgs of olives - or if you've got enough olives you can have your own oil pressed!
Costa de Almeria - chilling by the Med... August 28th 2009 After a three hour delay out of East Midlands we are delighted to finally land into Almeria in the south of Spain and find that our car hire company is still open and waiting for us (they were scheduled to close an hour ago). So after handing over our credit card and signing the appropriate forms we’re handed the keys to our hire car for our long weekend - a left hand drive Seat Leon - and we h ... read more
Europe » Spain » Andalusia » Almería Spain's powerful world empire of the 16th and 17th centuries ultimately yielded command of the seas to England. Subsequent failure to embrace the mercantile and industrial revolutions caused the country to fall behind Britain, France, and Germany in ... ... read more
We've been living in the UK for four years now and have racked up some serious kilometres by rail, road and air and have enjoyed every minute of it! Luckily we don't own a car over here or our carbon footprint would be through the roof!
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