March 31st. Cuevas de Beccero

After a wander around the Arab quarter and the old and new bridges of Ronda's famous gorge, I set off at 11am.
The GR7 was mostly quiet road walking all day. A lunchtime stop at Arriate, which would have been very hard to find the way out of without the gps app on my phone.
In fact I refer to the app regularly as there are very few signs for the GR7.
Lots of pig farms along the way and no springs or water sources.
It was very hot and I expected to have sunburn, (I didn't though).
I went off route to Cuevas de Becerro and was delighted to find a lovely spring and picnic area
After a visit to the bar to rehydrate, I cooked dinner at the picnic area and had some wine with a Spanish guy who was parked up.for the night.
Altogether a good place to camp the night.

GR7 the continuation

March 29th Ronda

I arrived in Malaga at midday, travelled to the station by shuttle bus & got my ticket for Ronda.
Only when I went to board the train, which was due to leave, did I notice that the ticket was for a later train.
I was directed to an adjacent train that was going to Seville.
The journey to Bobadilla went through the spectacular  El Chorro gorge.
Once in Bobadilla I found I had a 3 hour wait for the Ronda train.
Being a small rural town, I went to a bar and people-watched !
A better re-aquaintance with Spain than waiting in Malaga.
When I left there were 3 domino's games going.
A 10 minute walk in Ronda and I arrived at the basic, yet nice enough hostal, (cheap hotel).
Tomorrow I shall explore Ronda a little before setting off on the section of the GR7, be I missed out last year, between Ronda and Rio Gordo