drive to medina sidonia

medina-sedonia is 20 km away from casas viejas. it may be one of Europe's oldest cities on a hilltop. there are remains from Phoenicians, Romans, Visigoths, Moors and Christian's . it is very perched up very high so you can see why everyone wanted it. you can see over to cadiz harbour! enroute we saw storks nesting in top of the light standards in one town....we saw this in Portugal too around reberdosa, .Penacova, Portugal. one stork was feeding its baby.
also some pics of plants. the blue is morning glory vine stretching way up. liaquat fruit....I dont think the few vancouver loquats ever get this much fruit. an unknown pink bell flower which was very pretty and the pines we saw a lot of. pinus Aleppo? Aleppo pine (Pinus halepensis). or is it another 2 needle pine? forms a dense umbrella and seems to be all over the place. Aleppo holds onto its cones and is temperature sensitive. likes it hot. is common in cadiz provnce....but so is Italian stone pine Pinus picea also a 2 needle pine and likes sandy soils but seeds are larger....Read more