Ronda.

Last week we went on a trip to a little historical city called Ronda, with our program, CEA. Ronda is located in Malaga about 2 1/2 hours south west from Granda, which meant bus ride! I can sit in a bus, or car, for a countless number of hours as long as I have music. It gives me type to think and have "me time" and also of course to look out at the beautiful scenery. When we first got there we all really had to go to the bathroom and the place we were at charged 50 cents a person for usage. En serio? I decided I didn't have to go anymore. We had a tour in Spanish of the city and all of its historical sites. This was our tour guide.

Yeah I probably had the exact expression on my face that those of you reading this have. "Wait.. you're not Irish?" Moving on, this man was the cutest little thing, he was bilingual, and the head of the tours here in Ronda. He was very informative, yet a wee- bit boring. I was very grateful that I had a brochure that explained majority of what he was talking about when I wasn't paying attention. Ronda is the fastest growing city in Andalusia. It is famous worldwide for its beautiful views including over the Serrania de Ronda Mountains,  the deep El Tajo gorge that carries the rio Guadalevín through its center, Puente Nuevo, built in the 18th century, and for being the birthplace of modern bullfighting. 

View from Paseo de E Hemingway.

Mopeds :) goal before I leave: find a good looking young man to take me on a  ride on this.

Fedrico Setnatosa Marquez , a famous Spanish writer/poet, lived here in Ronda.

Their backyard is the edge of a cliff.

Puente Nuevo

Arabic baths. We were supposed to pay to come in here and see, but by the time the lady told us we needed to pay we already saw we wanted to see, snapped a last shot, and left. Sorry :)

Jen and I were under the impression that lunch was going to be included on this excursion since this was with our program. False. It took us about 20 minutes to find a place to go to that didn't have big hams hanging everywhere or scary seafood and that was a reasonable price. Like how hard can it be to find a sandwich place? Here, impossible. There was a McDonalds but we passed that up and went to this cute little Pizza place. We ordered water in the idea of not having to pay for a drink, but apparently you have to be VERY specific with what kind of water you want because the man brought us bottled water. Our pizzas were about the size of a medium sized pizza, freshly made, and gone in about 5 minutes. We each had our own and didn't say a word to each other while we ate. Hungry much? I wish I could have taken a picture of this, but it was gone before I got the chance.