it had come to the last day in spain. (i love how they paint horses very...meaty)

we had gone through quite many bottles of legendario through the week.

but it was time for us to seel the litre bag with 100ml of liquid-bottles and get going. but lets have a look inside the suitcase first.

in the local supermarket there was loads of swedish product (hard bread [knäckebröd], even two different brands! [wasa & leksands], two flavours of pickled herring [abbas] and swedish chocolate [marabou]), also I found german sachets of bearnaise sauce, which I haven't found in London yet.

and a nice, leather bag I found on a flee market, some shells and a stone Paul picked up for me, with a 'P' written on it. <3

but before we drove to the airport we had to make one last stop, for the famous 'churros' with chocolate..

WOW! deepfried dough that you dip in hot chocolate. MMM! unforgetable!

also, we had quite bad churros-experience before so we were happy we finally got the real deal.

And that was all from Spain for this time. Buenas noches

the next day in Spain we decided to go to a small town called nerja, known for some historic sights and lovely climat. On our way there we stopped at a gas station and I snapped a photo of the cutest dog I've ever seen. Look at that face!

when we got there it was hot and, very quiet and all houses were mediterranean-white.

after we had a cup of coffee we decided to go with the towns' tourist-train, all very excited as you can see. Although it wasn't really a tour unless driving around in your own neighbourhood, chatting to all your mates, is the new type of tour. A different type of tour, for sure.

so many lovely balcony-inspirations.

in general the people of Nerja were very friendly and I think they were all a big fan of the 'tour'-train.

and kitty cats of Nerja also seemed to have a good, laid back life, having siesta all day long.

and then we came to 'the balcony of Europe' which is an amazing viewpoint over the mediterranean sea.

the ocean was unbelievably postcard-turquoise

<3

then it was time for next sight in Nerja: the Aqueduct of Nerja. Unfortunately they've restored it a month before we came and it lost it's old, antique feeling to it.

anyhow it was a lovely view even there and all in all the town was very picturesque and beautiful. A lovely day!

Underneath the balcony there was loads of different fruit trees, and we spotted a golden pomegrante, staring at us, screaming 'pick me pick me, eat me eat me' (which we did the day after, mmmmmmm!)

and as many day started in spain, we went down to the beach for a couple of hours.

and the cuddly housecat saying goodbye to us :)

then we went home had a siesta and caffe con leche

then we went for a walk along the sea

we found a outdoor gym!

the crew

and tiny dogs seemed to be the most popular genre of dogs.

oh no save the parasol!

and the plane almost crashed in to the moon

and then we got home and started cooking a big, lovely, spanish feast, including sausages, spanish omelette, lovely salad and other bits and bobs. Mmmmm!

and later it was legendario and midnight dip in the pool-time.

the next day we decided to do a road trip, though we've rented two cars. Our goal was the small town called Ronda. The way to get there was quite adventures, crawling up on tiny narrow roads, next to big mountains.

when we got there we sat down to have our regular 'caffe con leche' [coffee with milk] and waited for the  members of the other car to arrive.

and then we were off to Rondas biggest attraction...

...Puente Nuevo! A big bridge which divides ronda with a huuuge gorge. The bridge took 42 years to build and a part of the bridge was also used for prison.

and just beautiful views where ever you looked

gabdave!

and if the tree to the left on the picture were a cork oak this would be a typical place for the bull 'ferdinand' (walt disney character) to sit at. In fact, the oldest bullfight ring in Spain, is the one in Ronda, and is still in use once a year. (but I think i prefer to watch walt disneys ferdinand)

we found a humangous pot that cracked as we tried to enter it...


and just where the bridge met the ground there was a lovely waterfall.




opa!


then, when the local was taking their siesta, we needed ice cream!




we found a big jasmine tree/bush/whatever that smelled 3 streets down. Oh how I wish they would be easier to take care of. (keeps dying within 2 weeks.) maybe it doesn't like england.


this was our next goal: the cave of the cats. Apparently the opening of the cave should look like a cat.. Any how, the path/bridge was broken so we didn't really wanted to risk our lifes for it and decided to go to another cave.


but that was easier said then done, when the signs just disappeared and left was just lonely roads in the mountains. We found a small village and luckaly Gabby and Dave are spanish speeking so we asked the locals how to get to the cave. But before that, we needed more ice cream!



ahh! a sign! [cueva de la pileta]


and finally we found it! by luck more or less.


this is just outside the cave. unfortunately you were not aloud to take photos inside the cave (I'm very happy for that, otherwise the millions of bats would have killed me!!!) but it was amazing with ancient rock paintings and incredible mineral formations.




and then the rocky mountains home and the spanish sun, setting at our back.

So this was the view we had from the balcony in Spain.

so we got beach-dressed and ran down to the beach. The waves were humangous because the tide was so high and I almost got washed away (luckaly my fish on the picture helped me back on land again..) and after 4 hours of beaching and relaxing and drowning incidents and book-reading and sunbathing we went to the pool area and did the same thing for a couple of hours.(but without any drowning incidents)

And when the sun had set, it was time for the legend: Legendario, a sweet rum you can drink 'on the rocks' and wow what a lovely drink! I don't like rum usually, but this is something else!

Mr. Nick

Dave n Gabby. And we listened to some spanish music which all made us very light hearted.

<3

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