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Travel Blogs from Ronda
Relaxing In Marbella-Tim
... to be an overdeveloped tourist resort town and it IS very developed but in a mostly tasteful way and the old town in really very charming. So we were pleasantly suprised. Just a 20 min bus ride from the campsiteinto the centre of Marbella. Had a lovely paella in a beachfront restaurant one night after walking along the boardwalk. A day of heavy rain gave the boys an excuse to have an indoor day watching old episodes of Tin Tin and playing board ...
Help me Ronda, help help me Ronda!
... safe here in Ronda and in fact, Spain has felt like a safe place to be. We get chatting to Raoul, the owner of our hotel who is well travelled and speaks English very well. He spent a lot of years in the States where he married and has kids. I think he is on to wife number three and she is considerably younger. He is a funny guy and he recommends some leather shops we should visit in Ubrique, which although it is only forty ...
Rain in Spain doesn't fall only on the plain
... by our friendly hosts in search of some fancy cowboy boots for Paul. Turns out we are chasing a bit of a red herring and waste the morning getting there and then back to where we want to be. Eventually after battling with traffic, but worse, the ridiculous lack of parking, we find a parking station and leave the car so we can get to the Picasso museum. Malaga is the birthplace of Picasso and although he left the place when he ...
The road to Ronda
... and forth. We took a different route this time and passed through a couple of other small towns. We also saw this huge pig crossing the road, lucky we did not hit it. It was black and white, like a cow - and almost as big.
Back at Dona Lola, we had our ham and cheese and wine and chocolate. It doesn't get much better than that.
And, those who know the family can guess who sang "Help me Ronda' first....
Tomorrow, Gibraltar!
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Round abouts and Turn abouts
... NCIS in Spanish while we wait for the car.
Evening:
Let me start by saying that driving in this area is an adventure. It started when we picked up the car. The man at Reception, when giving us directions to Mijas said, "we drive very fast, you don't need to do that." There is a very (very very) busy highway (very fast very busy highway) with very limited exits where you can turn around if you need ...