By the time I left Jimena de la Frontera every single item of clothing I owned had been worn at least once, not everything had dried from my search for the Moorish Queen’s Bath, I was starting to get sick, and it was still raining.
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Jimena de la Frontera
Following Ronda, I stopped in another one of the “White Villages”, Jimena de la Frontera. The train ride between Ronda and Jimena is breathtakingly beautiful. It’s worth doing just for the train ride alone! Unfortunately it’s not so easy to take good pictures from a moving a train, so here’s the best one: Jimena clings […]
Ronda
After Sevilla, I headed onwards to Ronda. By this point the rain had picked up and it was raining heavily and steadily across the entire Iberian peninsula. Ronda is one of the “White Towns of Andalucia” – a collection of mountain villages in and around the Sierra de Grazalema Natural Park characterized by their whitewashed walls […]
Sevilla (Take Two)
Jumping back in time a bit, after Córdoba, I had intended to go to Ronda. However, Jeanne, one of the people I met in Córdoba, convinced me that it would be more fun to divert to Seville with some of our new mutual friends. (As she put it “It’s up to you, but you have […]
Beach Therapy
After all the traipsing about in the rain I did (see Soggy), I caught a fairly nasty cold. It hit me the day I landed in Gibraltar and was still in full swing by the time I arrived in Cádiz. Fortunately my arrival in Cádiz was well timed with the end of the rain (at last), […]
Soggy
It’s been raining across the whole Iberian Peninsula since May 6. I’ve lost track of the number of times I’ve been drenched. I’ve now purchased an umbrella and a poncho, which haven’t kept the rain at bay but have kept me from repeating the soaking I had walking to the bus station in Sevilla (and […]
The Rain in Spain
It started raining heavily sometime during the night. I kept waking up during the night as I kept dreaming that the apartment was being flooded. (Note: my apartment has no notable risk of flooding.) The mere threat of rain tends to send granadinos into hiding, so my walks to and from class were very quiet […]