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Cycling the Via Verde del Aceite, Spain
I had a nice and long stay in Torredonjimeno but did not succeed in finding a place to rent for the upcoming wintertime at Spains most popular immobilaria-website Idealista. Not here and not anywhere ...
The first, the middle and the last reason for that is that southern-european people hardly ever (never)
answer emails.
The "succes"-rate is some 5%, only some 5 out of 100 persons reply to your email.
Regardless being them written in english and/or in spanish, or in both languages (as I always do).
So they advertise on specialized websites to rent their pisos (flats etc) but have no interest
in someone showing interest.
Something I know for many years now and all one can do is find some spanish (native) person and ask
to make a call for me.
Second problem is that they feel no need to disactivate their add(s) once they got what they were looking for. Very many adds are very old and "updated for the last time at xxx" is a good indicator for that. If that date is long ago (ie several weeks or even much longer) it is very likely that piso is not available at all anymore.
In Torredonjimeno I had personal contact on this matter four times. Unfortunately one appartment was to remote (in a very small town at 10kms and many vertical meters away) and one appartment was to dark inside and would probably bring me into a winterdepression. Two appartments were oké but their owners both tried to change the principal deal the next day by demanding all the rent cash for many months within two days. Those appartments were not even furnished but "you can be sure they will be on time". So within two days, but first I had to pay all the money, yeah, dream on , manana, manana ...
And since winter is nearing I only had one option left and that is to cycle south to the Mediterranean Sea to follow the sun. It will be (and stay) warmer there and most likely there are more appartments to rent. Hopefully also of foreigners, so people who do speak english and do answer emails.
And in the meantime2 I had replaced my stolen gps and powerbank by secondhand ones from the spanish Wallapop website. They operate in cooperation with Correos, the Spanish national mailcompany, charge only €3 for shipment and delivery is fast. But the gps was much more damaged then shown at the (missing) pictures. And even more worse was that it did not function since it did not manage to get into contact with the gps-satellites. I got frustrated more and more of that since I can not travel without a real gps. So I was actually sold a non-functioning secondhand article for € 105. That would cause me a huge problem, but I had no idea what caused this problem.
In the meantime3 the valvecaps of my OnTheRoad 4.0 🖱️ where stolen. Yes, really, the valvecaps ...
A dutch saying is "Je hoeft niet in een boom te hangen om een eikel te zijn." Which I don't know how to translate ...
I also bought a new tent online in Germany for €175 allin ( a huge promotion) which was delivered fast by DHL. It is the Stoic LysvikSt II tent (review here) 🖱️ of which I actually have no idea about and had not ever even heard off. But it has all the (very) important details that make a traveller happy. So far for the theory, the first night somewhere along the Via Verde del Aceite will be it's maiden test. And so of me ...
Very helpfull was that someone I met in a cafe offered me to use the adress of his workshop for my deliveries, thank you so much for that !
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This is the small map of the entire Via Verde del Aceite. Click it to open the large poster to see it in relation to the Cordoba and Malaga area.
Oké, here we go !