Taste the adventure, then taste the paella – in Spain.

[taiwan_girl]

But wait, there's more!!!

Gibraltar. Interesting that you have to walk across the airport runway to get into town. Long ago, I was there, and there was more car traffic going back and forth, but not as much now. Kind of fun to stand on the runway. Also, walked to the "Top of the Rock"! Definitely felt it in my legs!!!

Gibraltar

The story I heard was the PM Churchill said that the British would be in Gibraltar as long as the monkeys were still there. Well, the monkeys are still there and so are the British!!

Gibralter Botanic Garden

Back in Spain, went to a friend of a friend who had us make paella. Yummy!!!!

[taiwan_girl]

Spain is quite famous for "white villages" especially in teh south of Spain. Here are a few

Casares

Casares

Famous town of Ronda

Famous Roman bridge in Ronda

Grazalema

Grazalema

Grazalema

[Wim]

Nice pics!
Did you visit the stairs in Ronda? If not then you have a good reason to visit Ronda again
BTW: the plastic caps attached to bottles are mandatory in the EU in order to avoid plastic littering.

[Horace]

Very cool pictures! I particularly liked the Toledo ones.

[taiwan_girl]

@Wim said in Taste the adventure, then taste the paella – in Spain.:

Nice pics!
Did you visit the stairs in Ronda? If not then you have a good reason to visit Ronda again
BTW: the plastic caps attached to bottles are mandatory in the EU in order to avoid plastic littering.

Did a lot of walking and took a lot of stairs in Toledo, but not sure if one set was more famous than another. They were all pretty cool!!

Re: bottle caps. Makes sense!!

[AndyD]

Love these! Makes me want to go back, this time see Gibralter.
Madrid and Toledo look exactly as I remember from my travels over two Easter weeks in 1985!
Memorable Toledo was medieval except for the railway station. I stayed in a pension near the castle, sharing a room with a young army lad; very hot weather and you could reach out the window and literally touch someone reaching from the bedroom opposite.
Spaniards siesta for 3 hours to avoid the afternoon heat, finish work at 7 and go for a walk & eat in the cool of the evening. Good life as I recall.

[jon-nyc]

Ha, we cross posted. I’ll have lunch in the Plaza Mayor tomorrow.

Bottle cap thingy is a mandatory annoyance in the EU. That’s what counts for innovation there these days.

[AndyD]

You don't lose the bottle cap, and can reuse the bottle for water. It's good.

[Wim]

@AndyD Yeah, but if you like drinking from a bottle, these caps are a nuisance.

[Renauda]

Lovely photos TG!

[Tom-K]

Great pictures!!!! That was really lovely. (You take really wonderful photos.)

[taiwan_girl]

@jon-nyc said in Taste the adventure, then taste the paella – in Spain.:

Ha, we cross posted. I’ll have lunch in the Plaza Mayor tomorrow.

Great minds think alike. First evening there, had lunch in the Plaza. Nice to sit there, but I was told that the restaurants are nothing special.

If you get a chance, try to have dinner and see the flamenco at Corral de la Moreria. Well worth it.
https://www.corraldelamoreria.com/en/

[Axtremus]

@Renauda said in Taste the adventure, then taste the paella – in Spain.:

Lovely photos TG!

+1

[Klaus]

Very cool photos! I've been to some of these places but not Gibraltar!

[Jolly]

Pretty girl, beautiful scenery, great pictures.

[Mik]

TG, your life is nothing short of spectacular. Fantastic pictures! And paella over a wood fire? Wow.

[taiwan_girl]

@Mik said in Taste the adventure, then taste the paella – in Spain.:

And paella over a wood fire?

One thing I learned is that the traditional meat in paella is rabbit. I was offered to have it made with rabbit, but I turned it down. LOL

Taiwanese eat some pretty weird things, but rabbits seem too cute to eat. 555

[Mik]

And delicious!

[taiwan_girl]

@Mik

[NobodySock]

they sure made pretty buildings back in the day!