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Travel Blogs from Ronda
Help me Ronda, help help me Ronda!
... We go up on the wall around the city and the steps are narrow and covered in moss. I'm not brave with heights and it freaks me about a bit, but I can imagine in Australia, it would be all fenced and warning signs posted everywhere. Here, you just wander on up whenever you like! Then we walk down to the old roman bridge, the Arab baths and the the towns older bridge. It quite a spectacular place as you will see from the photos. ...
Rain in Spain doesn't fall only on the plain
Day 57 Malaga to Ronda This morning we spend quite a bit of time trying to get ourselves organized to actually leave Spain next week. We hadn't booked our exit either by air or rail as we weren't exactly sure when we would be leaving. Looks like we have missed the boat on cheap flights out of Madrid, so we are scrambling a bit to figure out both where we will go and how to get there. In the end, the cheapest flights are from Madrid ...
The road to Ronda
... in to the center of the commercial area and it was not at all what we expected. We thought the town would be small like Mijas, but it's a good size city. We finally found the historic area (in the rain) after a few false starts.
We found the square honoring Ernest Hemingway, a beautiful church, the bullfighting ring (apparently the most famous bull fighters come from Ronda). There were horse drawn carriages and the biggest ducks ...
Part 2: The Irishman bites the dust
... by the of the US Smurf movie marketers and paid what presumably was a fee to good to turn down (despite all common sense) to paint the town a rather sickening shade of blue to be used in advertising for movie. Apparently it worked to a certain degree – she recently had 2 young Chinese women get on the 6 am bus for the couple hour ride to the infamous village in the middle of no where. There is no accounting for bad taste. But then again, little towns must do what they must do ...
Discovering Ronda
... conditioner until we were back to a comfortable temperature.
We went back out to explore the beautiful city. Wolfi walked close to the buildings, avoiding sunlight, as I took photos of everything. When there was no shade available, he would run from one shaded spot to another. He had to wait a long time for me on the opposite side of the bridge as I took my time, stopping at several locations across to get a good photo.
We stopped for lunch at ...