Marbella and Windmills

Marbella and Windmills

This post will catch me up on our travels and news over the last couple of months.  

This is a view of Marbella from a hill in Mijas.

Looking over Mijas, with Marbella in the background.

Marbella is a beautiful seaside town about five hours south of Madrid.

The old town of Marbella is pedestrian.

The streets are narrow, and shady.

Most of the shops are very pretty, but very upscale and pricey.

It's a classy town with classy buskers.

So many inviting sidewalk cafes.

A little church that is storing some of the floats that will be used during Holy Week.

Here's my store!

These were some really good, and very unique buskers.  Their music was beautiful.

The used this instrument a couple of different ways.

Inside another church getting ready for Holy Week.

One of their floats.

Children of the Parish getting ready for a little processional of their own.

Preparing another float.

Castle wall.

My favorite sculpture in the town.

A horse bidet.

We were driving along the highway, and saw some windmills on a hill.  We decided to pull off and see if we could find a way to get to them.  We drove through this cute little town.

This little church was on Main Street and decided to take a look.

Guess what they were working on?  Yes, Holy Week.

Big fans of Don Quijote.

There they are.

We found the road.

We got back on the highway, drove a few miles, then saw more windmills.
 These we weren't able to find the road to, but I got them with my telephoto.

We had such a nice time on this trip.  The weather was perfect.  

The sights were fantastic, and the spontaneous aspect was exciting.