From the Bario de San Francisco to Alameda de Tajo. In the Alameda de Tajo good festival foods were waiting us. The show continues today…
Come to see the old style ancient Andalusian city…
Editor´s comment: OMG, 101 km is more than double >Marathon…
Here the MTB final push ( last 1 km ) dron video:
This year La Legion based in the compound very closed to Ronda organizes again the 101 km challenge in run and mountain bike category. Normally more than 3200 competitor in different categories starts from the football stadium on Saturday. The time limit for the runners 24 hours. The weather… hm 28-29 C.
Here are the brossure include information´s about the probe dowloadable:
Update: officially revealed appr. 8.500 attend the XXII La Legion 101KM 24H..
All over the christian World prior week of the Easter is a grand holiday. Beginning just the prior Sunday, in spanish “Domingo Ramos”. The traditions used to change in different countries, even more stunning event may seen in Spain and Andalusia. There is very spectacular marches days and nights. The original tradition dated anno the time of inquisition the every days procession by the different catholic community. This processions are talking about the repentances and expiations. Duration of the marches taken from the churches the very heavy relics.
Those who wear hoods and shrouds are accompanied by reprisals with relics every day, with another throne, accompanied by an orchestra composed mainly of winds and drummers, playing painful ecclesiastical music.
Most of the thrones are heavy, ornate, with some carrying up to 50 people.
On the streets, there is a great deal of preparation, along the path of the procession, there are stands, the balconies are covered with red drapes.
Usually, the larger number of roundabouts are the nights when the temple leaves the church in the early afternoon and arrives back at dawn or the next morning (entrada). The whole city participates in the tours (small children are also active participants)
The events of Semana Santa are confusing in their effect and attract a lot of interest through their specialty.
Finally there is the schedule of the all celebration relating Semana Santa in Ronda.
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Some times in November we decided to start looking for another apartment to purchase in Ronda. The main goal what we described among us it has to be very different style than Calle Sevilla. Other words we keen to do a very modern style, very fresh, like minimalist apartment.
The other goal what we appointed and emphases that new apartment has to be very close to city center but not too close, hence parking with car shouldn’t be such a big issue than in the downtown. ( even we offer a free garage but really tight )
Overall 4-5 weeks we spent to looking for, and we have seen a lot of options were really bed conditions. However we have had a limited budget, we skipped any apartment should have been 100 % destroy inside and there after rebuild.
Right after we found the best of our knowledge target we split the project. Heni has had the interior design and I have had the construction and project management.
We established a detailed BOQ ( block of quote ) and invite a few construction company / guys to place offer for us. Because of Christmas was coming in a month we didn’t have too much time for planing, as from 15th December until 7th January nothing happened in Andalusia.
As soon as we selected the construction resources the first things was remove the doors, the frames, and dig some channels in the floor for additional electric cables.
It had to be luxury but minimalist style, Heni decide 2 shade of grey as wall paint, white doors, and white grey Saboya laminated floor.
As in Ronda any construction ( and design ) materials are 50 % higher price than for example in Leroy Merlin in Marbella, we tried to avoid any purchase here and used to go down to Leroy. The guys as well talked down about how shit the quality of products from Leroy …
– Ne pasa nada, es barato 🙂 – I said.
All construction works ( with Sergio ) kept about 2.5 months. We changed the doors, setup new electric networks for a/c and heatings, change all lights, all plugs and switches, setup 4 cool and heat a/c units, setup cornices, and paint the walls in two different colors. Finally we place a new floor. In the bedrooms set up new town heater radiators, small things why the apartment looks like luxury.
Finally arrived the new furnitures, setting up curtains, flat TV, high speed internet, and featured the kitchen with a large dining table with 6 chairs, and all necessary equipments for cooking, including microwave, cafe machine, toaster, fridge, dish washer.
Heni ( always ) took her attention to be luxury the bedrooms, two have large beds, led lights with music streaming options. The saloon got a really big L shape sofa, with additional two other seatings, especially fitted for 6 persons.
Today we have finished the project. I would say we ( Heni and me ) are happy even the construction guy Sergio was really proud the result.
The apartment is ready to book, we have already couple of new booking…
Muchas gracias para Sergio y su equipo, obras calidad son muy muy alto.
*360 pictures can find in Holiday apartment/360 images section.
Robert & Henriett
