Our Days in the UK

On the second day of our beach trip in between skiing days we went to Ronda, a beautiful mountain village about an hour from Marbella where we were staying. If I want to go back to Gibraltar to see more of the history (which I do), I really really really want to go back to Ronda! Although the village itself is small-ish, there is SO much history: prehistoric cave paintings, Roman ruins, a very large Arab influence, including 13th and 14th century Arab baths, and the famous 18th century Puente Nuevo ("nuevo" being a relative term here, especially for the Americans among us.)  We saw only a fraction of the sites since we only had the afternoon. Here are some of them! This is the Palace of the King of the Moors, which actually probably wasn't his palace, but does have features dating back to the 13th century, and which houses what was originally the only source of water into the city. This is the breathtaking Tajo canyon that the famous Puente Nuevo spans. You

We are back in Spain now for a final ski vacation before the snow season is over. We decided that this first season it would be good for the kids to have one more trip to consolidate their skills before they have to wait until next year. So we came last week, skied for a few days, and then took a break on the coast over the weekend while the resort was really busy. While there, we went to Gibraltar for an afternoon. We all enjoyed it, if we ended up walking a bit more than the kids would have liked. (We parked the car on the Spanish side, having heard the traffic over the border could be bad.) To get across the border you have to actually walk across an airport runway. Justin thought that was pretty fun. As we got closer to the English side we could see the iconic rock of Gibraltar looming ahead. We didn't have very much time there, having gone swimming in the morning at our hotel. So we walked (a somewhat circuitous route) to the cable cars and got one of the last