Spain and Beyond

Daily Drena: Out of the city!

We are headed to Ronda for the week, because many people have told us it’s a beautiful place with lots of hiking around. We decided to rent a car because even though there is a train to get there, a car is the only way to get to trailheads. So we take the bus to the Malaga airport and spend all morning dealing with that. Eventually we exit with a little black Hyundai i30 and immediately get lost trying to get out of the city. However, lost is always a relative term nowadays (there really needs to be a new word for this modern lost), because we know where we are on the gps, we just can’t get to where we want to go. No streets allow a left turn, a lie told multiple times by the gps.

Once we are out of Malaga, our smiles return. The drive is a pretty one. We arrive at our B&B with excitement, but find it’s a quite a bit different than we were expecting. Even though we secured the place through email with Maria in English, she doesn’t actually speak it, so we bumble around as much as we can. It is really just like renting a room in a house. Our room, her room, and her son’s room (who is in college in Malaga) is upstairs in the same area. She gives us the bathroom and they use the one downstairs. It’s in a modern row house area, about a 15-20 min walk to the cool parts of town. This is going to be interesting for an entire week. We debate about bailing out early and finding a more private place, but decide to embrace it (or just adjust to it).