Map <> Territory

[tamaranth]

Exhibit A is from the map provided by Avis, who foolishly let us hire a car for the day.
Exhibit B is from the map provided by the rep.


The Scenic Route
Refer to the lower highlighted area on both maps, marked in green.

Having ascended an excitingly iterative road, we decided to head east and look at Embalse de Soria -- a scenic lake with Photo Opportunities, as can be seen from the camera icon -- before rejoining the main road. We found El Baranquillo San Andres more or less where we expected it: there was a gang of women attacking roadside vegetation, and a lorry with a skip that, after it'd stopped blocking the road, provided an excellent vanguard -- everything else moved aside, and we zipped along after it.

Then the road ran out. That camera icon on Exhibit A? I think it means 'Here Be Dragons or Maybe a Road, Not Sure, Oh What The Hell Put It In'. Exhibit B, by contrast, clearly indicates that there is No Through Road. (Google claims we were imagining the luxuriously wide and unbendy road to El Baranquillo.)

We gave up on lakes and headed south to the motorway, which was (a) vile but (b) exactly where both maps said it would be.

Show me the road to El Chorillo
Refer to the upper highlighted area on both maps, marked in red.

Later in the afternoon, after crossing the centre of the island and stopping for petrol, we were ready for an hour on the beach. As you can see from Exhibit A, one can head west from El Espinillo via El Chorillo to rejoin the main road near Embalse de Parralillo.
Or not.

Finding ourselves in the middle of nowhere, about half an hour down a narrow and twisty road (which, to be fair, had featured a dead-end sign right at the top: however, our Hierarchy of Belief was the wrong way up) we consulted Exhibit B, which clearly shows that there is no bloody road at all.

Back up the hill ...

The Road Less Travelled
unillustrated

Opinions differ as to whether there is a road to Playa del Veneguera. Having driven it, I am inclined to agree with Google (beach not marked, nearest point is Tabaibales) that there is not. However, there are many interesting sights: troglodyte dwellings, banana plantations, a hedgehog and -- at the beach itself -- a plethora of forbidding signs.

Luckily it was too dark to read any of 'em.

Moral: the map is not the territory.