Susan Elizabeth Phillips

HIKING IN SOUTHERN SPAIN

In September 2009, I took another of my beloved walking/hiking trips—this one exploring the area between Granada and Sevilla in Southern Spain. Each trip is so different and so wonderful. This time I traveled with Country Walkers. I’ve also used The Wayfarers, and I highly recommend both companies.

My dashing appearance in this photo is purely a trick of the light. In reality, I’m sweaty and I have really bad hat hair.							I saw this poster as we walked into one of the “pueblo blancos,” the white hill towns.

The beautiful village of Antequera.							On the trail

Part of a delicious trailside lunch.							Courtyard of the Hotel Fuente del Sol.

Helen, my hiking buddy, at a shop in Granada							The Torcal’s prehistorical landscape

Sunset at Granada’s San Nicolas viewpoint with the magnificent Alhambra in the background							Courtyard inside the Alhambra.

More of the Alhambra’s breathtaking detail							Animal friends on the trail

“You can’t have my trail mix, no matter how much you want it.”							View from the bridge in beautiful Ronda.

View from the balcony of my Ronda hotel room							Matador at our Sevilla hotel on his way to the bullfight.

Flamenco dancer in Sevilla							Good-bye, Grazalema. Good-bye, Spain