{"id":2895,"date":"2014-05-12T19:18:24","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T18:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/?p=2895"},"modified":"2026-05-23T09:00:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T08:00:20","slug":"my-man-in-la-mancha-is-looking-for-windmills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/2014\/05\/12\/my-man-in-la-mancha-is-looking-for-windmills\/","title":{"rendered":"My Man In La Mancha Is Looking For Windmills"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"My
My man looking out over La Mancha<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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We said farewell to our Toledo campsite at 9:30am and headed south past fields of dry grass and poppies, with only occasional small hills, or should I say mounds.\u00a0 At Consuegra we pulled off the freeway looking for windmills.<\/p>\n

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\"No
No, not those windmills<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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No not those windmills.\u00a0 We were looking for the ones made famous by the writer Cervantes in his book Don Quixote.\u00a0 Two of our guide books pointed to different places, but the molinos at Consuegra were on our route south and the other ones would mean rather a long diversion; so we opted for the ones with the tourist buses already there.\u00a0 The old windmills really are a wonderful sight, not at all like ferocious giants.<\/p>\n

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\"Those
Yes, those windmills……..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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It would be a wonderful to see their sails covered in fabrics and turning in the breeze, but sadly they stand silent on the ridge of the hill with an expansive view over the plains of La Mancha.<\/p>\n

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\"Molinos
Molinos at Consuegra<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"And
And the castle at Consuegra<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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After a quick chat with some American tourists who were admiring Eileen, we carried on down the freeway, taking a short detour to creep slowly through Valdepe\u00f1os, a town that was still fast asleep at midday on a Sunday.\u00a0 Our final pull off the freeway was at San Elena, where we bought some water at a tiny shop that was actually still open at 1:15pm on a Sunday afternoon, and then we drove across the road to Camping Despe\u00f1apperros.\u00a0 We picked a nice spot under pine trees on a ridge with views over countless olive trees.\u00a0 Hundreds of olive trees, as far as the eye could see!\u00a0 It was Sunday, siesta time, so we decided to do as the Spanish do and relax for the rest of the day.<\/p>\n

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\"Our
Our view over olive trees at San Elena<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  We said farewell to our Toledo campsite at 9:30am and headed south past fields of dry grass and poppies, with only occasional small hills, or should I say mounds.\u00a0 At Consuegra we pulled off the freeway looking for windmills.     No not those windmills.\u00a0 We were looking for the ones made famous by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8337,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2895\/revisions\/8337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}