Sorry for the delay in posting – summer has been busy.

After we sailed out of Barcelona, Málaga was our first port. It’s a fairly large city on the southern coast of Spain. We actually didn’t spend any time in Málaga itself; we instead spent the day exploring small villages in the area and the mountains that surround the city in a jeep. Our first stop was the washed village of Frigiliana – it was a maze of little alleys and roads built into the hillside. Next we drove deeper into the mountains to the small village of Acebuchal, which actually feels more like a collection of houses, rather than a village. It’s situated in a valley, in the National Park Sierra de Tejeda. We stopped for a drink and then climbed back into the jeep and rode up the mountains. We took a tiny, windy dirt road, literally driving though streams and on the edge of cliffs, up into the Sierra de Almijara mountains. At the top, the views were unbelievable. Our last stop was Cómpeta (pictured in the photo above), a larger white washed village, also built into the hillside. In Cómpeta we had an opportunity to have some local meats and cheese, Becki tried the local sweet wine and we also did a little shopping before heading back to the ship. Click on the photo above to see all my pictures from this day.