Andalusian Adventure is a horseback holiday outfit in the Sierra de las Nieves National Park - Monda, Spain. We leave Malaga for the 30 km drive up into the foothills of Sierra Nevada for a private 2 hour ride at 3:30pm. A truck rear-ends a car on the A-355 and after 40 minutes of wreckage clearing we show up a 1/2 hour late. The proprietor is a Brit named "Lee" who very politely gets us saddled up and going (not sure he buys our story or just thinks Yanks ar...

Easter Monday is noted as coolest day of week - 65F so we decide to placate Mom and head to Malaga for some art and cathedral viewing. Doesn't sit well w/ the girls until I promise to book a horseback ride through the Sierra in afternoon.     We get on the A7 and its a traffic jam all the way...90 minutes to go 45 km. Girls are nauseous from the stick shift motion. I try to take side roads , but only adds time.   We arrive at the Malaga Cathedral with...

Easter Sunday and everyone's finally feeling the 2nd day lag. I haul out of bed to fix traditional Easter fruit crepes and by the time we get to point of eating, it's 1 pm. Ugh....! We were going to see the week-long ending procession of Semana Santa in Marbella, but the sun is shining brightly and we turn to the pool & beach. Quite busy w/ newly arrived families and few rowdy groups of mostly American & Brit travelers, but great scene and we all lay ...

Although sunny...was windy and high of 65. So instead of the beach/pool, we pick up groceries at local Sol Supermarket and head up into the mountains for Ronda...a medieval / Moorish picturesque town about 30 km from Marbella. Fresh warm baguettes, sliced meat/cheese piled on in the car for lunch.  The drive is curvy with precipituous cliffs. Lots of memorials and markers from past guard-rail raptures and I have 4 backseat drivers screaming at me the whole w...

Cuevas de la Piletas is famous for its pre-historic cave drawings of hunters, bison, etc...but en route Lyn reads in the guidebook at 6:30 that they take last tour at 7 pm until April.  With risk of driving 30 minutes further beyond Ronda in threatening darkness/rain for no-admittance, then having to back-track we spy the Cueva del Gato hotel/bar and pull in.   Hey..there's a cave and its impressive!! There are no guides. We don't dare venture in too...