Last day of touring! We are doing the spirit of Andalusia today.

We left the hotel at 830 to pick up our guide. He told us we would be trying churros and the bus cheered as Connie has been wanting those babies all week and we have been having a churro drought! We cheered and the guide was surprised by our enthusiasm for churros!

We are travelling north of Malaga to farms today. We stopped in Colerma (sp?) for fresh churros. Sampling with plain, sugar and chocolate. Pretty neat to watch the lady pour the mixture into the oil and make the circle with the long piece of dough.

Olive farm. We saw the processing which is very similar to how we would take grain to the terminal dumping in the pit, augering up and getting weighed. We had a taste of pure olive oil plain and one with garlic cloves in the oil. Very good! Olive facts: 350 million olive trees

We then had a walking tour of the wee little town where we were definitely the only tourists and everyone else was a local. Very quaint, peaceful and calming which is a huge change from everywhere else we have been.

Lunch. Our adventure includes being invited into a home for a typical Spanish lunch for company. We started with salad with oil and vinegar and meat and cheese with bread. Then the lentil stew arrived which had hints of orange in it. We were full. Then the pork and potatoes with homemade aioli showed up 🥴Custard for dessert was eaten but everyone was definitely slowing down. Then the dessert of anise cake, coffee and quinze liquor (for the adults) was offered. It was all so good, but man alive are we full. It will be a very quiet bus back down the mountain to the beach for the last few hours of our tour.

The last two days of our tour were spent without our consolidated school as they choose not to tour Gibraltar or do the Andalusia experience. Our group feels that they missed out as the last two days have been very different from the rest of the tour – minimal crowds in Gibraltar, absolutely no crowds on the farm, and the food has been delicious! We also prefer to travel with our group of 9 plus the tour director. We are built for speed with only 10 people.

Tomorrow morning will have us leaving the hotel at 3 am (7 pm home) time. Hopefully, all flights are on time so we arrive in Regina at midnight on Friday night.

It has been another good trip for YgTravellers! Stay tuned for our next adventure!