Bonnie & Bill's Adventures: Cómpeta

We were on a road trip to the Costa del Sol Thursday-Sunday. I did not take the computer so did not post to the blog. We got home last night so I will catch up over the next few days.

We left last Thursday to drive to Malaga on the Costa del Sol. This was a two hour trip. We had been invited to meet and visit with Rose Ann and Bill Keller. Bill is the brother of Sue Byerly, a good friend of ours from church and our Roadtrek buddy, along with husband Don, in Key West.

We spent a delightful afternoon with the Kellers. They graciously showed us around the historic center of Malaga where they have been renting an apartment. Most of the streets in the area are pedestrian only - shopping and eating and historical sites are the main attractions.

We drove from there to Cómpeta, a village known as the pearl of the Axarquía region of Andalucía. It is about 15 kilometers from the coast, approximately an hour east of Malaga. It sits high in the dramatic hills and mountains of this area and enjoys a spectacular view of the Mediterranean. It is a town of 3,000 folks plus a community of English and Scandanavian expats. The village is a labyrinth of narrow cobbled streets that date back to Moorish times. We spent two nights and our time was filled with meandering the streets and being charmed by the quaintness of this old village.

Malaga, Costa del Sol, Andalucía, Spain

Rose Ann and Bill Keller

Bonnie trying to get Picasso to talk to her. He was born in
Malaga in 1881

Roman ruins in Malaga

Cómpeta, Andalucía, Spain

Blue dot locates Olvera

Cómpeta

View from our room in Cómpeta

Closer look at Mediterranean Sea

Plaza Almijara with La Asunción church tower
from the sixteenth century

Great eating and relaxing in square

Gallery of fantastic tile art depicting life as it once was
in this Moorish village. This is NOT painting onto tile. It
is hand fabricated ceramic art