The grim reality

We drove out of the mountains towards the sea, just to get a glimpse of the coast, and as we hadn’t read anything about the towns directly south of the Sierra in our guide books, we thought they may have been miles of unspoilt beaches free of British tourists.
What we found though was the answer to one of our constant questions on this trip. The Spanish like to eat so well but live in such an arid country, so where do they grow so much food? Answer: the coastline of Andalucia between La Rabita and Almeria, 70 odd kilometres of greenhouses. Is this the farming of the future...?



Click on image for bigger map. All the white squares are greenhouses. And if you want to read up on it, here is an article from the Guardian that goes back to 2005