The weather was good and we probably could have ridden up to the historic town of Ronda from Granada, but there wasn't much to interest us between the two destinations, so we took another of Spain's efficient and comfortable trains to get to our next cycling point. Ronda turns out to have historical interest due to its strategic location on top of impregnably shear cliffs at the edge of a roaring river gorge, and current interest because the Rondianos are playing it up for all its worth, charging admission fees to the most mundane of attractions. I did pony-up ?6 to see their bullfighting museum, as Ronda's Romero dynasty of matadors holds the claim to having developed the "modern" technique and style of bullfighting, which made an arena sport out of what had previously been the
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