It isn't far from Granada to La Linea de la Conception (near Gibralter) but it might as well be a world away. We chose to take the highway along the Sea rather than the inland route (well I'm not sure if we chose or the GPS 'cause it was pretty hairy getting out of town). The road we took was, by now, now pretty familiar as we had used it to access the Sierra Nevada mountains as well as drive to Granada. So we went in to auto mode thinking this wou...

Our beach holiday is behind us with Easter memories of one last procession, Paella & calamaritos for lunch & yummy steak for dinner as well as the white capped Mediterranean blowing salty sea sparay goodbye kisses. (that was cheezy!!)  The drive to Granada is short and sweet so we decided to lengthen it a bit by driving up to the local ski hill. With a 30cm base (just heard Big White back home got a 30cm powder snowfall) the hill didn't look too appealing ...

Got a very early start leaving Ronda in the sunshine just as the coffee shop owners were putting out their displays of sweet, mouth watering pastries (which so far my expanding body has avoided). Taking the A367 our first goal is Garganta del Chorro. This immense chasm is 180 meters deep and only 10 meters wide in places. The limestone rock strata runs perpendicular in steep slabs that defy gravity. Beautiful, terrifying view on a sunny day. Unfortunately we coul...

it was a drizzly morning as we tried to make a quick exit from Cordoba. Turns out our GPS had other plans. Again the 'recently updated' convenience knew nothing about the new cloverleaf bypass. Eventually we were spat out of the roundabout heading in the right direction for a scenic drive to Ronda. Rolling hillsides covered in yet more olive trees and sheep yielded to steeper, rockier terraine as we drove along a secondary road (A8126 - A2302) to our de...

Three days in a family run villa in a quiet, peaceful neighbourhood. Close enough to walk to town that we could (and did) walk but far enough that we can avoid tour groups and touts. Ahhhh!First day we overachieved. Arrived around 1pm, checked in & found (again way toooo much) food. Think the plate of the day could be shared & we'd still be full. Who can eat a whole leg of lamb and survive??  Had to walk off the overstuffed feeling ( and the cervezas) e...