Los Dolmenes Antequera

After days at sea we had a short stop in Malaga before docking the next day back in Savona. I have decided that I am not crazy about the days at sea. Even though I really enjoyed all the ports, I don't think I would do anther big curise. The fact that there were only small number of people who spoke enlgish on the ship was interesting. So wanted to speak another language .. any lanaugage. Even when I told the Germans I did nto speak Germann they kept talking!

... ham, and beef. She said it was very traditional and that you mix it all up and dip your bread on it. It was so good. It reminded me of Thanksgiving. Then tonight the ISA group had a dinner at a restaurant (they rented it out) it was so good. Wine, salad, mashed potatoes, pumpkin pie, gravy, cranberry type sauce, and some kind of meat. We later found out that the meat was turkey with stuffing. It was really good. I can't remember ...

Malaga is the major city near Frigiliana (where the train dropped us off). We spent a day there when we picked up Jaime and Rob at the train station. Some highlights:

• Watching Jaime and Rob come off the train and meet us in Spain
• The Picasso Museum – a wonderful ...
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... Alex, Maria, Juan, and two friends from an intercambio) were all super proud of me. No pasa nada!

Afterwards we went to a bar where they played a lot of older Spanish songs…very good and upbeat even though some were from the 60’s. Also, after I left the bathroom in the bar I saw Maria standing waiting for the girls bathroom and she called me over. She had met a girl from Jaen in the line and I talked a little bit to ...

... and went for a walk along the strip again but the most of the places where closed up now so we had a pint in an irish bar again and then we went looking for food. We decided to stop off in another english place called Rumours and could not believe it when they put on all the soaps. We caught up with emmerdale and eastenders until I could take no more and we went off to get some chinese food. It was horrid and made us both feel a ...

... only problem is that the room really smells of smoke its making me feel sick. We dumped our stuff Ian had a quick shower and off we went to look for something to do. Straight into an english bar Browns had a glass of wine and a beer for 4 euros ha ha then went on to another place. Where we are staying is a large area full of english bars and irish bars and we ended up in the smugglers irish bar taking shots of ...

... high up overlooking the town. - great municiple market we found the after we'd done our cooking in the pension. - nice, cheap, friendly pension, had a bit of a doggy odour unfortunately. - 22 degrees on the day we flew out; beatifull.... onto london - greeted by drizzle and a 2 degree afternoon in london, but Eric (mark's cousin) picked us up from the airport, great to see him and great to be in london (minus the weather).

The same day we got back from the Aché tribe in northeast Paraguay to Betania... we left left again, on another week long outreach trip to Antequera, a little town on the banks of the Paraguay river that would be our base of opperations for a boat ministry called the Angel Del Rio (river's angel), which actively ministers to the people that live along this river with medical and dental needs. In going... I actually took wet {but clean} clothes with me because ...

... Parroquia de Santa Maria 229 Lookout point which looks straight down the cliff 230 Julie and I at the lookout 231 A long way down 232 Driving the very tight roads 233 Julie and I with Arco in the background 234 Another view leaving Arcos 235 Driving into the country 236 The Parque Natural Sierra de Grazalema 237 Julie in the national park 238 The 1500-resident village of Zahara in the distance 239 Narrow road of Zahara 240 Zahara with lake in background 241 Julie ...

... rents for €735 per week. When she realized that I knew that she knew that I knew, she offered to provide a courtesy refund for the one day so there would be no hard feelings. We spent the rest of that day roaming the streets of Antequera seeking futilely for something of the remotest interest. That night it rained, so the dogs had the evening off and we were able to catch a few winks.