On our tenth day, we left Arcos, and drove towards Granada. As we left the city we saw one of the infamous (to us, anyway) “No more Arcos” signs. On the way to Granada we were going to stop at Ronda, the place where Hemingway used to live and which inspired him to write about bullfighting.

The road to Ronda was very narrow and windy, and Theresa was too scared to leave the car sometimes. There were great views of mountains and the reservoir from the road, and on the way we stopped at a town called Zahara which had an old church and castle.

In Ronda, bullfighting is big. When we got there we went to the bullfighting ring. Outside was a statue of a bullfighter. Inside, it was pretty cool.

Ronda is split by a new bridge (200 years old), aptly named Puenta Nueva which splits the old city (”La Ciudad”) from the new. We took a walk around, and saw some interesting trees on the sidewalks. We walked to an old Prince’s mansion, Palacio de Mondragón. It was a beautiful house; some parts had water flowing through it. When we were there, they were exhibiting some art, including the interesting hippo sculpture below.

SHUPER HAPPY!!!