Brian's Rick Steves' Tour of Spain Scrapbook
We traveled on and stopped for lunch in Grazalema. It is a pretty hill town that no doubt is a wonderful place to shop for tourist stuff. Unfortunately we arrive at the start of siesta and all the shops were closed. In the plaza Annie and I had a good lunch of Spanish omelets. It was a good meal that we had first encountered for breakfast in Barcelona. It became eventually a fall back food to order when you want certainty rather than eel with abscess.
In Spain there’s the king – and then there’s Antonio.
Melanie Griffith
El VÃnculo and Grazalema
After breakfast in Ronda we made our way first to an olive oil processing plant – El VÃnculo in Zahara de la Sierra -- where the man whose family had owned the business since 1755 told us about the process of making olive oil.
The gentleman owner, who I think was also named Antonio, was, according to the women in our group, muy calliente.
Inside one of the rustic buildings was a shop with tasty samples and pictures of Orson Wells and Ernest Hemingway posing with the matador, Antonio Ordóñez selling for six and a half euros each. I did not buy either one.
A Shop At El VÃnculo
Grazalema During Siesta
