A very comfortable and unrushed train journey to Seville. Jane read and dozed while I viewed the ever changing countryside with its mountains, undulating hills covered with olive groves, grass fields for animal feed, sunflower crops and cereal crops as well as small farm hamlets scattered along the sides of the gentle valleys. Seville! A new experience for Jane and myself was the taxi ride from the station to our accommodation through the narrowest of narrow streets enclosed by high walled buildings; that no one could fit either side of the vehicle. Jane felt a little claustrophobic as the ride progressed. Our hidden but once we saw our destination all was well. This cozy, informal hotel is set in a restored 18th-century property in the Barrio de Santa Cruz district and is a 5-10 minute walk ... read more

Views of Ronda as we traipse around.... read more

The day began very bumpily indeed. We were up at 5 and reached the train station by 6 for the 6.45 train to Ronda which turned out ‘not’ to be a train but a bus to Santa Ana about halfway to Ronda and ‘then’ it was a train into Ronda. Caused the heart to speed up when, due to language constraints and no English signage, we have out tickets checked and are told, “No, you must take the bus first.” The positive was that we didn’t have to go to the bus station, which is located in another location. As the train pulled into Ronda I saw that there were literally hundreds of people of all ages standing on the platform very close to the sides of the train waiting to greet me. As the automatic ... read more

The Alhambra Palace Buildings.... read more

The vistas today were far different from our previous few days. We had chosen to travel by coach so as to see the vast amount of countryside and small towns we would be passing by and through. We weren’t to be disappointed, even though we arrived at our accommodation pretty tired out. Not having much of an idea of the landform structure or use in Spain, all of today was a learning experience. The ruggedness and aridness of the journey did surprise us. We did not see or pass over any rivers, however, we did pass over many a river bed, both wide and narrow that had not seen water in a long time. One could tell that when it did rain, it rained in torrents, as the erosion of the ridges had formed many gullies ... read more