Ronda

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After nearly a week recovering in Tarifa we drove to Ronda. The road is very pretty passing through the pueblos blancos, white painted villages in the hillsides. Ronda is situated in the mountains on the edge of precipice, I am not sure how high up it is, but it is considerably cooler than Tarifa.

We cycled into Ronda from our (quite nice) campsite – lovely downhill ride with the kids on the bike seats. The town is quite pretty with the main feature being a bridge crossing the river gorge. It is very high and apparently they threw prisoners off it during the civil war. There is a lovely garden along the front (precipice side) of the town and there were lots of tourists around.

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We cycled back to the campsite which was nowhere near as much fun as on the way :-) As Claire was struggling I swapped my 27 speed lightweight mountain bike for her 5 speed heavyweight ‘city bike’ – which is now known as our other truck…