Day trip to Setenil De las Bodegas and Bye to Paul and Paula

Portrait on the wall at Monolo Leon we all admired.

Paul and Paula are leaving Sevilla for Montpellier, France in a couple of days so I organized a lunch at Monolo Leon’s new location at the Gourmet Experience in El Cortes Engles to say bye for now. We were them, me, Ryan, Angela and Pepe and Marta, Marta was brave to come having run the half marathon that morning, but she was bright, cheerful and had sore legs. We had excellent service and food, as we have had before at the signature location I’ve been to about three times. That is one thing you never know, isn’t it, if the quality stands up in a new location, and it did here. It is slightly higher in price of food to other restaurants but justified in my opinion. Good times and it was good to get the gang together again.

Ryan, Angela and I drove to Setenil De las Bodegas, Cadiz province to see the weird and wonderful houses built into the rocks and caves there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setenil_de_las_Bodegas

It is definitely a unique town, and a true tourist destination, and well why not, it's not something you'll likely see anywhere else! After walking around and taking pictures we lunched at Bar Zamudio, which is at the top and corner of a steep main road so the cars and tour buses come very close to their outdoor patio where we sat. 

Here are some pictures, it was a cloudy day so the quality isn't the best but will give you an idea of what we saw and "awed" about. 

Close up on the very large tomatoes that appeared around town.

We wondered about the foliage hanging down, does it get trimmed? In the stores and restaurants you see the walls and ceilings are rock, part of the caves.

I don't think I would park there! The rocks also drip constantly, walking through this passage was a bit of a wet experience.

From above, the town sits along a river gorge.

Another great day trip to a very unique town in Cadiz province.

Cheers, Bev and Lexi Cat who stayed home again