Calella
a lovely church,
My Spain adventure started in Malaga, where I met Ralph and we rented a little car.
I marked the places with red arrows.
We drove along the coast and had an ice cream and look around in Benalmadena Puerto where many yachts are ankered.
A bit further up north we looked at the Stupa Buddist Temple, and the view from there was breathtaking.
We stopped by a Butterfly house with amazing beautiful butterflies.
The next day we visited Ronda, a bigger more touristy town.
Another day we were visiting friends and having a party. More of the party here.
We drove amazing very winding mountain roads and visitied typical Spanish villages and a cork forest.
On my last day we all helped with the grape harvest.
One of Ralph’s friends has a vineyard and the grapes were ripe. It was so much fun! More here.
My favourite chair:
The mountain view
The beautiful road into Ralph’s village
and again such beautiful flowers everywhere.
I saw places, tourists see, I saw sleepy little villages, I went through roads not many tourists drive and could mix and smile at friendly Spanish people, as well as meeting and mixing with friends of Ralph.
I enjoyed being part of the community there and saw how life is in Spain.
All in all a wonderful holiday and I loved everything!
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When you arise in the morning,
think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive
to breathe,
to think,
to enjoy,
to love.
Marcus Aurelius .
First impressions of Spain
very clean !!!
beautifully white painted houses with well looked after flowers in front. Everyone cleans the streets and houses in the mornings.
So much fruit !!!
I have seen so many fruit trees, which I have never seen in my life like lemon, orange, walnut trees, also olive trees, quince trees, nispero, which tastes beautiful as jam.
What a beautiful fruit!
Then the wonderful friendly people, all say “ola” straight away and all always smile. My sort of country.
I do not have expectations usually but there were 3 things I did expect….. of Spain
my beloved palmtrees
Cacti
and sun!
This was the sunset flying back home out of Malaga, so beautiful!
So here my first impressions,
after sorting some more photos I shall give you a little tour.
I was very privileged to visit Spain and being so warmly welcomed by my host Ralph and everybody there.
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