Originally from Germany, she has made her home in Cardiff Bay, via spells in Canada and Glasgow, but she doesn't know Spain at all and loved every minute of her visit to Andalucia. We tried to give her a varied taste of the region with our new found local knowledge. So as well as local delights we took her up into the mountains to Ronda.
Nothing like the Rhondda Valley in Wales, the Spanish Ronda is an ancient town perched precipitously above the 100m El Tajo gorge and famous for the amazing Puente Nuevo bridge, which is certainly not new, and spans the drop to connect the old and even older halves of the town. At that height in the mountains we knew the weather would be a bit colder but the clouds did not obscure the fabulous views.
By contrast we had a great night out in Malaga sampling a couple of traditional tapas bars. Cortijo de Pepe felt authentic with great food but the very grumpy camarero gave us the giggles, he clearly didn't approve of tourists.
So Tapereria Cervantes made up for it with extremeley attentive staff but was maybe too touristy. And we caught the last bus home!
Friday was our girly day out in Malaga town; Martin had elected not to join us and gone out on his bike. After a respectable amount of walking, sightseeing and shopping we repaired to a bar Marty & I had found before, Los Gatos ( The Cats) for a light lunch. We were lucky to nab a table as it is extremely popular. A few tapas and one tinto verano later we were about to ask for la cuenta when the waiter brought us 2 more drinks, on the house. We asked for the bill again and he brought more drinks. Then he moved us to another table .... and brought more Cava. At this point I did text M to warn him we might never escape!!!
There is no doubt that the Spanish are generally very hospitable and have a different attitude to serving food, it's all about ensuring you enjoy the experience. Anyway it was a fun lunch and I think Kathrin went back to to Cardiff with some good memories.
No comments:
Post a Comment