I'm constantly surprised by how each city (or even neighborhood) here has a distinctly different feel. On Saturday, I grabbed a bus with some friends for a daytrip to Ronda, which is about 2 hours from Sevilla. When we stepped off the bus, there was an instant gush of fresh mountain air and it felt so good. The New Mexican inside of me also leaped for joy at the sight of mountains. We really had no plans for the day except to explore and find "the big famous bridge". We got some coffee and water and began walking and found an outlook at a park. From the lookout, we saw the farming aspect of Spain.
After that, we set out for the "big bridge" that the boys kept saying Fascists were thrown off...I'm not so sure if thats true though. Once we got to the bridge, we couldnt stop taking pictures. I'm pretty sure I have seven images that are all the same, but it was so captivating that we couldn't put down our cameras.
The rest of the day we spent hiking over, under and beside the bridge. We ate our lunch on the pictured rock and watched the waterfall at the bottom of the bridge (not pictured). *Sidenote: my friend Olivia had Halloween candy that was sent to her in a carepackage and tossed me a Snickers which proceeded to fly over the edge of the mountain/rock as a huge gasp came from our friend who though I was gonna fall to my death in an attempt to catch a taste of home* One of the coolest things was that on one side of the bridge was the farms and the other was completely different. There were mountains and houses built all along the edges. The day ended with a group of us talking about how we love the history here while sipping on wine overlooking the mountains (since lunch looked at the bridge/farms). Oh, as for the title of this post...during the trip we commented how the bridge, waterfalls, vegetation, mountains - overall, everything gave us the feel of Lord of the Rings.
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