We left Las Lomas on a good clear sunny morning and stopped to take some photos of the reservoir on the way.


As the weather is still so good we have decided to continue our cultural tour, right up through the middle of Spain. We took the free A44 Autovia out of Granada towards Jaen and soon entered a very fertile area planted as far as the eye could see with olives.  The groves made interesting patterns across the hills.
 
We passed many villages and castles and soon bypassed Jaen with its big Cathedral.
 
The terrain gradually became flatter and we entered an enormous plain, planted this time with vines, right into the far distance.   This was the Valdepenas wine area, said by some to be the biggest vine growing area in the World!
 
The road, now the A4 crossed this plain as straight as an arrow. Unfortunately the road surface was that awful sectional concrete, for mile after mile, after mile - just like the M27 near Southampton. Motorhomes are not well sprung and have very high tyre pressures so it was a bumpy and noisy ride.

It was with great relief that we saw some windmills high on a hill and then moved on to the CM42  
We soon saw the town of Consuegra in the distance, famous for its 12 windmills and castle.
The windmills all have individual names and you can almost imagine Don Quixote being around

 
Unfortunately the castle was shrouded in cranes and scaffolding.  
We continued across more fertile plain, passing the castle at Mora
 
Eventually our next stopping place came into view - the city of Toledo.  On our long trip to Spain in 2014 we gave Toledo a miss, but this time we found a MH stopping place right in the centre, so we thought we would give it a go. All we had to do was find it!
 
We did find the big Car park opposite the main bus station and next to a large park.
We got settled and as it was still fairly early we went for a walk up into the town.
The way to get there was ingenious - we had to follow a bright pink line, which led across several crossings to the base of the walls and then up a series of 6 long escalators which took us almost up to the top. Then an uphill walk and we were in the main square - Plaza de Zocodover. We had a quick peek into the free bit of the Cathedral and as I was feeling a bit breathless because of my bad chest, we went back to the MH.
We were a bit relieved to find there were now 6 MH's there of different nationalities - safety in numbers!
Much later, after we had eaten ,we realised that a lot of buildings were all lit up so we went for a walk across the River Tajo (Tagus to us) to have a look