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The Ronda Tourist Office is located in Plaza de Blas Infante, which is also where the bullring is, so for the benefit of tourists who arrive by bus and who often get confused walking around Ronda, follow these instructions.

Now, most tourists who arrive at the tourist office pass the bullring to reach it, but getting here from the bus station is something that often seems to confuse people, mostly because the central bus station is at least 600m or more away. So, for the benefit of anyone who happens to visit, when you exit the bus station you'll be facing a traffic troundabout with very few meaningful signs to anywhere.

Here's what you need to do to get your bearings. First, stand directly outside the main entrance to the bus station and you'll see the aforementioned traffic roundabout ahead of you. To your left you'll see a small kiosk selling lotto tickets, and to your right you'll see a street with a pedestrian crossing, and over the crossing, a cafe with street seating. Read More

Acinipo is literally a ruin, there is no town left to give any idea of what the place must have been like in Roman times. These days its a hillside with numerous piles of rocks and just three excavations, one of which is what's left of the Ampitheater.

We drove up there yesterday because the sky was a lovely clear blue which doesn't happen here very often. You see being up on the mountains between the Mediterranean and the Iberian plateau the clouds get stuck here and tend to sit quite low meaning we often get really bad haze even though there is no smog. Yesterday then should have been a rare opportunity to get some great snapshots.

Unfortunately, we didn't realize that the reason the sky was so clear was because the wind had turned, so instead of balmy winds of the south, we were not getting freezing cold winds from the north. And Acinipo sits at the top of an escarpment that is as exposed as you can get in these parts. I pity the poor buggers who had to live there a couple of thousand years ago when they didn't have gore-tex or central heating. Read More

I'm looking at the stats for the Rugby World Cup, and with only six teams left, Fiji are looking like they might actually have a chance. With the shock exit of Australia and New Zealand, I must say I'm sorely tempted to place a fresh round of bets in time for the remaining quarter final games later today.

South Africa are a strong team, and I think they'll get the win against Fiji, who I think just lack the discipline needed to get past the South African backs. But on the other hand, South Africa have a habit of going into meltdown just when the pressure starts. Read More

Its been a little quiet on this blog for a week or so, we finally got the house sold and have made our way back to Brisbane in Australia. The plan is to get organised from here, catch up with friends and family who we haven't seen for a couple of years, and then get ourselves over to Europe.

I won't bore you all with the details of the horrible flight, or long queues at passport control, but I will tell you about Brisbane. The city has changed a bit since we were last here, several new buildings in the CBD have changed the skyline, and a lot more apartment blocks in places where there used to be houses.

The weather shocked us getting off the plane, we had been used to about 17-18℃ with low humidity, but Brisbane is warmer, above 30℃ degrees every day with humidity up around 98%. We are not coping with the change.

We got ourselves into a short stay apartment in the city with air conditioning which lets us sleep at night, and after we've done all the paperwork like sorting out bank accounts, renewing passports etc then we'll be ready to book flights to Europe. Still not sure when we'll arrive, although my horoscope says late March to mid April is when I'll be meeting a whole bunch of 'new and exciting friends'. At least that's what Ceejay read in her latest woman's magazine so it must be true :grin:

Next week we plan to be tourists in our home town, taking snapshots around the river and CBD, I want to shoot some video on one of the citycats (catamaran ferries that run the length of the Brisbane river. Might even upload it to YouTube - which I can do now, we each bought Powerbook Pro's, so as long as I can get a wifi connection - beauty, the State library in Brisbane has several hotzones, so I'm online, yay!

If any of my readers want to see any specific photos of things around Brisbane, now would be a good time to make a comment. Can't promise anything, but I'll make an effort if we're able to.

We'll be staying with friends about 50km south of Brisbane the week after next, so should have some time to relax although I promised them I'd help with some renovations around the house so maybe not. We won't have broadband there, but they do have a dialup connection on their own PC so should be able to update the blog a bit more. Where they live is surrounded by native bush, which is very different from anything in Europe so I'll post some images for you guys. We've been told we might even get some photos of the native birds if we're patient.