Today is a public holiday in Spain. Last night was like Christmas all over again, the streets were full of families to wach the Three Kings parade, the bars were full. It was all very unexpected.
The village of Ronda is a charming old town that has the second oldest bullring in Spain. It was here that bullfighting was first done on foot. Out and about in town the other night we were in a little dive bar and found pictures of Ernest Hemingway and Orson Wells on the wall. It seems Hemingway once lived here. Enjoying this place so well we decided to make it home base for a couple of days.
Yesterday we drove about 50 miles to the town of Jerez and visited a horse carriage museum. Here they train the Andelusian stallion´s. This place was very impressive. The drive between Ronda & Jerez is through the mountains on a little winding road. Very, very beautiful. The weather in the afternoon is great and we stopped at a few village bars for tapas and refreshments.
Last night we stumbled into Flanigans Irish Bar, of all places, the bartender was from Dublin and knew the area my parents were from. In no time we were caught up in conversation with locals and tourists, discussing North Africa and solving the world´s problems.
Today we will drive back down to Malaga and visit some of the up scale Costa del Sol¨beach resorts.
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