So Here's Our Vacation Blog...

Drove through Puerto Banus on the way out of Marbella this morning, hoping to see the 1000 yachts moored there.  Unbelievable.  This place is locked up tighter than a Republican Presidential Convention!  Guards at both ends of town with electric gates, not letting anybody in unless you’re a member.  This is one exclusive club - I guess I’ll need to work another 47 years to save up for a yacht so I can see what’s on the other side of the buildings!

Drove through the mountains to Seville (although n Spain it’s spelled Sevilla and pronounced suh VIH yuh), on a winding road - very interesting.  Aside from the fact there were a huge number of bicycles training up and down the mountain, and a huge number of motorcycles flying by around the blind corners across the solid double line, inside leg out, knee almost dragging on the ground, aside from the fact that there were numerous police in unmarked cars backed into roadside turnouts clocking speeders and sending the  radio message to their brethren in the chase cars below, we could actually see the Rock of Gibralter and the coast of Africa from up there!

We were up a little, between 3,000 & 4,000 feet, when the treed terrain turned to solid rock.  Interesting how they carve roads into the rock.

A few miles later after we crossed the mountain range into the interior, the hills began to look like Wisconsin - complete with hay rolls.

We made it to Sevilla and had lunch in a place on the river downtown, with a view of some of their monuments.

The city is much more cosmopolitan than any we’ve been to in the last month - you’d think you were in Chicago except everybody talks funny.  Not much in the way of old European tradition here.  Marge made a new friend while walking through town

on the way to the Catedral de Sevilla, which we didn’t stop in.

There were very long lines for every monument, and the line for the beautiful gardens was probably a couple hours long!  So we then stopped at a couple beaches on the way to Carvoeiro, where we are now.  The coast here is like Pictured Rocks in Michigan’s UP, except there are many coves with beautiful sand beaches all over.

and rock formations, which are very cool.

Tomorrow we’re going on a quick ride in a small boat to see the caves that form in the base of these cliffs  from the water and take photos.  Had a nice dinner tonight, watched the sunset against the rocky cliffs while eating a traditional Portuguese dish of cod and rice in a cream sauce, topped off with Pasteis de Nata gelato - two taste treats in one!  All for now, will have photos of the cliffs and cave tomorrow, then off to Lisbon for our last hurrah!