FUN-travel: Arcos de la Frontera to Rhonda, Spain Drive
August 26, 2012 by Susan Clarke · Comments Off on FUN-travel: Arcos de la Frontera to Rhonda, Spain Drive
Trip Day 42 – Tuesday, August 21 – Arcos de la Frontera to Ronda, Spain
Grazalema
What I LIKE
Ronda
- 7:30 – hot strong coffee on patio
- 9:30 – head down to main road
- at least it’s a one way lane
- drive through heart of Andalucía’s white hill towns
- beautiful & scenic through mountains
- 10:30 – 1st stop – Grazalema – postcard cute hill town
- 11:15 – drive to Ronda
- 11:45 – arrive
- find parking garage
- nice walk through town
- eat lunch of sandwich made @ breakfast
- main attraction is The Gorge & New Bridge – ravine is 360 ft down & 200 ft wide – built 1751 to 1793
- 1:30 – head to Zahara de la Sierra – tiny town clinging to side of hill with a Moorish castle on top
- aqua colored lake at base is actually a reservoir
- 3:30 – arrive back to parador
- happy hour beer with olives tapas
- 8 pm – venture out & down to cobblestone walkway (also known as “main street” & the same one we drove up on!)
The Gorge & New Bridge
- 8:15 – dinner @ Mamma Ttina – authentic Italian restaurant (owner is from Italy) – caprese salad, spicy pepperoni pizza & tiramisu – really VG!
- one of the best meals we’ve had so far
- after dinner “tapas” of Lemoncello
- decadent dessert day!
- had ice cream cone in Rhonda too
What I DIDN”T LIKE
- on pins & needles driving down from parador
- just as narrow & twisty as coming up
- locals go any direction they want on one-way streets!
FF (FUN-fact) – I have never eaten, let alone seen, as many olive types, tastes, sizes and colors as I have since I’ve been in Spain.
Zahara de la Sierra