Albayalde Estepona

... Real Andalucia), Marbella won´t spring to mind at all.......... Ronda for sure and maybe nowadays Malaga as well, as they have done up the City center!

In all the building boom over the last 15 years, the Quaint Old Town of Marbella has not been
touched at all and this beautiful authentic small Andalusian fishing village, called Marbella, still remains in tact!

One can feel the new rush into the Old ...

... Benalauria. The restaurant was an old converted olive mill. It was very cool inside and had 3 levels and an outside terrace for dining. We started off outdoors, but the bee's were scaring us so we moved indoors and sat next to a woman who was in her late 70's holding court with her 3 friends. She spoke 7 languages and was really interesting to talk to. It was nice meal. Again, great salads! We headed back to town and decided to eat in and pack up our things ...

... took us about 30 minutes to get to Grazalema and we fell in love with it as we were driving in. It's set in the hillside but is surrounded by national forest land. I've said it a hundred times about how beautiful the scenery is, but this by far was our favorite. It was breathtaking. The village was so cute set up a bit more for tourists than where we're staying. It has a great square where everyone was meeting. Monday ...

... drinking 750ml of yogurt drink i tried to eat 2 further kilos of yoghurt (Thats 15 pots to you and me). Some how I managed to finish them, keep it down, then cycle ten miles. Although, looking back, its never a good thing to do when you rely on using the woods at the side of the road as your toilet. Nearly 3 kilos of yoghurt man. I think you get my point.

... turned around and pointed his bum up at us... hahaha charming. The little babies were mischievous little buggars but sooo cute. Running around chasing each other, jumping onto wires and hanging upside down, hugging and fighting each other until their mum came along and gave them a whack across the head sending them flying. Hahahaaa Cable car back down we ran into some of the others so headed for a pint before ...

... their cannons from within. This made them invincible because the enemy could not attack them for they where inside the rock. There was also a large community of monkeys living in the trees on the rock and we all found these most entertaining. Although we are enjoying the English speaking town it is frightfully expensive when converting Aussie Dollars to Pounds, so we must keep our visit brief. Perhaps we will return briefly on our way out of the Med.

... as we got out of the shuttle that we touring the colony in, one of the monkeys opened the drivers side door, jumped into the drivers seat and proceeded to wail on the horn until our tour guide chased it out. We were laughing hysterically! They are notorious for snatching food out of tourists hands and even take hats and sunglasses if they can. Our tour guide was clever too. He had those monkeys trained. Normally they don't like to be touched by people but he ...

... the inland heat on the one hand, and what seemed like hundreds of young college students streaming in to learn some Spanish over summer break on the other. Scary stuff indeed, but it would have been one mellow place in the weeks and months before. Tarifa is basically one long beach, around 10km of white sand ...

... had experienced a deluge of rain with at least 30cm falling in 24 hours. I was beginning to think I needed to swap my bikini and suncream for a pair of wellies and a rainmac, so when we arrived a clearing up operation was in progress. We had already decided what we intended to do with our week and spent the rest of the afternoon and evening planning our day trips around the area.

... a rock? I later heard about monkeys that live on the rock and that it was owned by England...so then I thought, why am I going to see a rock, monkeys, and some British people? Well, lets just say it was completely worth it. I discovered a very interesting colony of the England, with very interesting people, history, and monkeys.