Andy Rodker's photos with the keyword: EL Escorial

El Fraile from Collado de Entrecabezas. Granite extravaganza.

Las Machotas; the dip between La Machota Chica and La Machota Alta. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKtAhJPZS6o Sight and sound; Paco de Lucia and Cameron de La Isla. Very Spanish and matches the landscape here, I feel.

My views of this sierra last week were from a closer vantage point. I should have been there this week but an arrogant student decided that the immersion course was not to his taste and so he got it cancelled after only 2 minutes of us all meeting! I now have a battle to get paid and the academy has a fight to retain the contract. A worrying few days all round! (There was nothing wrong with the course).

Las Machotas and blackberries from the Roman road. I tried to convey the shimmering heat haze on this scorching August day.

By the Roman road - near El Escorial and Zarzalejo.