Malaga
Today we hired a car and headed for the fabled Ronda, and it didn't disappoint. Amazing bridge, architecture and views only spoiled slightly by the thousands of tourists that have headed up from the Costa del Sol for the day - read that as the English people that fly into Gibraltar on cheap fares and stay at Queensland type resorts (the best people stay in Malaga of course!).
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We decided to take the scenic route back through the lovely town of Grazalema. Not so many tourists here, and along with the whitewashed buildings, there was a guy in the the main square who had a number of birds of prey, including a massive owl. We could have our photo taken with a bird on our arm (for a price) but decided to give that a miss.
There were many small artisans shops but being between 2pm and 6pm they were disappointingly all closed. This area of Spain has huge unemployment problems .... we had been told that the only thing keeping the economy going was tourism, so you'd think they could stay at least stay open when there were tourists in town!
From there we drove through Ubrique and the Serrania de Ronda Mountains joining the coast at Estepona. The road was very winding and narrow until we reached the coast, we then decided to take the Costa del Sol beach route back to Malaga to see exactly what this area that attracts so many Brits was like ... all we found was lots of high rise and apartment blocks and beaches of gritty grey sand.
What really annoyed us as we drove into Malaga was all the double parking - people just leaving their car on the road with hazard lights on while they went shopping! They were everywhere, in the street some or on street corners, the whole thing was bizarre.
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