Ronda y Alhambra

This week my brother Sven is visiting me in Seville. He spent few days in Barcelona with my sister and nephew first, and then he came down south to stay with me. As you are lost in Andalucia without a car, we had to rent one. We booked an ‘economic’ car at Hertz. That turned out to be a little mistake as initially we could not find our assigned car on the parking lot, and when we fnally found it we were shocked: this was the most ugly car I have ever seen!! A Lancia with a shit brown colour that I would not even drive if they payed me to do so. It was a new car, but boy whoever constructed this creature definetely does not have an eye for esthetics. Luck was on our side as turned out it had a flat tire. We ran back to the office as fast as we could, demanding a change of car as we could not wait for this car’s tire to be replaced. We then got a blue Peugeot, much better.




















On saturday we drove out to Ronda, about an hour drive from Seville. Ronda is built on a mountain, which looks like it is split in two. I’m not sure how to explain it., but the views are beautiful, especially from the bridge they built to connect the two parts.


















On sunday we went to visit the famous Alhambra. We were just in time to book tickets the week before. We had high expectations of this place, as about 6000 people visit it every day of the year. And its true: it is a gorgeous place, a palace built on top of a hill in the city of Granada. The weather was not that great, had some clouds coming our way, but it definetely was hot enough to cool down with a beer.