What a good title for this short piece! "Pons" is the Latin for "bridge", in Spanish"puente". And two nights ago, on Monday January 20th, was the last night of Venta El Puente ..... ..... not for ever, of course. The family that runs "The Bridge" is taking a well-earned break. Two weeks.
Read MoreThe Ronda Valley Hotel at the bottom of the valley just outside Ronda (known to us locals as the Hotel Don Benito) shut suddenly the other day without notice. Nobody seemed to know why. We knew it was going to close on January 15th for reasons which weren't quite clear, but why all of a sudden in early December? Something must be afoot …..
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