Spanish Vacation Pt I- Estepona: wow, fantastic, great

Sadly, I don't have any pictures from our vacation until the last day.  Our luggage and John's computer (with our pictures) was stolen on the way to the airport (more on that later).

John and I arrived at the Marriot Playa Andaluza:  http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/agppy-marriotts-playa-andaluza/  late on Sunday April 19, 2009.  Our room was really a 2 bedroom apt in a time share resort.  It was great.  We were right on the beach.  We went to a lovely little tapas place in Estepona.  The next day we explored the area around the hotel.  It was pretty touristy.  We also explored nearby Marbella.http://www.andalucia.com/marbella/home.htm I heard way more english than spanish.  I think a lot of british people vacation here.  We also had our time share spiel to get us to buy a time share at that resort.  our short 90 min presentation lasted 5 hours!  Our salesman was from Belgium and kept saying wow, fantastic, great.  

Following our presentation we took a trip into the interior of Andalucia.  We went to the small village of Ronda.http://www.andalucia.com/ronda/home.htm It was about a hour drive on really curvy hilly roads.  The village is split into 2 parts, the old part and a the new part.  The parts are connected via a huge bridge spanning a deep gorge. We ate dinner at a great place that over looked the valley.  The trip back was very exciting (for John) and terrifying (for me).  We had to descend from the mountains to the coast via very twisty narrow roads in the dark.