Trip to Ronda and a walk in the park

This weekend some friends and I made a short day trip to a little city called Ronda. We heard a little bit about it from some other friends and figured we'd take the short hour and a half bus ride out there and visit for the day. I honestly don't think the pictures that we took can explain the amazing views that this city has to offer but we tried our best.

Had to get just a little more sleep on the bus before our long day in Ronda. Photo credit: Kelsey Fuller

Ronda and the surrounding area was very mountainous. It was a great change of geography compared to Sevilla and especially compared to Florida.

Most cities here in Southern Spain have great bull fighting rings. Ronda was no exception.

This was a view from the far side of the city. Ronda is split between a giant gorge with a bridge connecting the divided sides. I was a little confused as to why the city was designed in such a confusing way but it makes for good pictures so I'm not complaining.

This is the bridge that connects the two sides of Ronda. It's an amazing piece of architecture to say the least

After seeing one side of the city and working up an appetite we decided on a little place to stop and refuel. I don't know why more places in America have the option to sit outside like this but I'm going to miss it when I leave Spain. It was such a nice day and especially being in the sun was a great way to spend lunch.

Unfortunately for the restaurant we had shortage of bills and a surplus of euro coins.

After lunch we took a hike down to the bottom of the bridge. The hike follows a path from the side of the city and goes all the way under the bridge. I definitely recommend this hike to anyone visiting Ronda.

This is the view from about halfway down the hiking trail. We still had a ways to go from here though.

We eventually made our way to the bridge which towered over us as we passed under it's huge supports. Under the base of the bridge is a little flowing water where the waterfall comes from.

We found a beautiful platform of rusty scaffolding to stand on and take a great picture.

When we made our way back up to the city we trekked over to the other side of the city and this was our view. Ronda was an amazing day trip from Sevilla and did not fail to impress anyone in our group.


So our trip was on Friday and on Saturday Kelsey and I went to a park and sat around for a while just people watching. Then our friend from UF, Ally, met up with us and the real fun started.

Sitting on a bench in the park just people watching. Some of the best time ever spent.

 

We stopped at this little cafe and tapas bar where one of our local Spanish friends, Gabriel, works. We got a few sandwiches and he treated us to free beer and sangria.

We probably saw 50 different groups of people having an amazing time on these bike/car things. It looked like a lot of fun dodging between pedestrians and ringing a bell all through the park.

After scrounging up 8 euros between the 3 of us Kelsey, Ally and I rented a bike/car for 30 minutes.

Typical Kelsey breaking all the rules.

After our day in the park we stopped at Haagen-Dazs to fulfill Kelsey's milkshake craving. While she sipped on her vanilla milkshake I treated myself to some chocolate ice cream and a waffle.

Ally decided on the Bruffin (a brownie cooked inside of a muffin)

We ended the night by having Ally and Gabriel over to our apartment for dinner. We cooked a big bowl of shrimp fried rice and talked about the Spanish language and how it compared to English. We also got invited to play poker with Gabriel and his friends tonight so we'll see how that goes. I'm glad I could sit down and get all this done at once. We are celebrating Día de Andalucía on Tuesday and we don't have school. Kelsey and I have purchased our bus tickets to Aracena to spend the day there on Tuesday. Hope you all enjoyed the update. Maybe I'll win some euros tonight at poker. Adios.