Spain week six, day four

Tuesday June 3rd 2008

Hacienda, Villamartin, Spain

Yoga first thing after a day off for the Seville trip. Zoe participates, but Nigel thinks better of it. He remains more of a Pilates man! Shortly after, my modem seems to stop working and that is why so much of this blog is being uploaded a week or so later now we are back in the UK!

Then off to Ronda for another day out. The weather has now been really good for a few days in a row and the photos are so much better than my previous visit with Fiona


The north entrance to Ronda's bullring - the oldest in Spain

The view towards the Grazalema National park from near to the New Bridge

Looking down on a cafe overlooking the river gorge

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Nigel has a relative who they think used to work at one of the cafes that is adjacent to the New Bridge, and so we settled in the first one we came to and had some tapas to set us up for the walking round. But it turned out this probably wasn't the cafe he had worked at

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Looking back at the cafe we ate at close to the edge of the gorge by the New Bridge

A famous Ronda walkway starts in front of the building above and travels round to the left.

As we made our way up the main street we passed a museum that Fiona and I had somehow missed on our epic trip round Ronda last week. This was a shame as its main current feature was about the Spanish Inquisition and that would have been really good to see I thought.

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There were also several art gallaries that we also didn't find last time and we would have enjoyed. One had lots of oil painted copies of famous works which were very interesting.

Restaurants in a back street

Julia and Zoe outside one of the best looking houses in Ronda

By mid afternoon, we were due another stop for a drink and a snack. Julia and Zoe each ordered lemon juice and received a glass made up of just the squeezed juice from several lemons - a quite extraordinary drink. Nice cakes to go with drinks as well

Last picture of the New Bridge for this visit - still haven't made it to the floor of the gorge for the classic views.

Bullfighting postcards - odd how these events feature in the sports section of tv news each night.

Back for paella night at the hacienda - always one of my favourite dishes, both to cook and eat. It was warm enough to sit outside reading this evening before dinner. I have just finished Naomi Wolf's "Promiscuities", a book I had intended to just dip into but then found far more interesting that I had expected.