TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD: Pictures - Spain: Malaga, Mijas, Ronda, Barcelona

Tuesday, November 15, 2022

Pictures - Spain: Malaga, Mijas, Ronda, Barcelona

Here are some pictures taken in Spain: Malaga, Mijas, Ronda. I will add more pictures, including photos of Barcelona

Malaga - photos show the Cathedral and the old section of Malaga. Our host is shown cooking paella for us.

Mijas - hillside cascading picturesque town in the Malaga area. The town has whitewashed buildings in multi- layers, connected by narrow winding streets.

Ronda - ancient mountaintop place with a deep gorge that separates the town. Rainy and chilly up here unlike sunny Malaga. Hemingway liked this place and used a local story of people being flung from the cliff in his For Whom the Bell Tolls. He also watched bullfights in Ronda.

Ronda bull ring was first founded in the 1500s

Detail, bull ring

Hemingway tribute

Oscar Wilde tribute

BARCELONA - 1 1/2 hours flight from Malaga to Barcelona. More pictures later on

Plaza de Catalunya which is mentioned in my third novel, The Newspaper Widow

View from our window

Check out my Nov. 18 blog entry which has more pictures of Spain.

Tags: #costadelsol #southernspain #catalunya

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's official website is ceciliabrainarddotcom. She is the award-winning author and editor of 22 books, including When the Rainbow Goddess Wept, The Newspaper Widow, Magdalena, Selected Stories, Vigan and Other Stories, and more. She edited Growing Up Filipino 1, 2, & 3, Fiction by Filipinos in America, Contemporary Fiction by Filipinos in America, and other books.. Her work has been translated into Finnish and Turkish; and many of her stories and articles have been widely anthologized. Cecilia has received many awards, including a California Arts Council Fellowship in Fiction, a Brody Arts Fund Award, a Special Recognition Award for her work dealing with Asian American youths, as well as a Certificate of Recognition from the California State Senate, 21st District, and the Outstanding Individual Award from her birth city, Cebu, Philippines. She has lectured and performed at UCLA, USC, University of Connecticut, University of the Philippines, PEN, Shakespeare & Company in Paris, and many others. She has served in the Board of literary arts groups such as PEN, PAWWA (Pacific Asian American Writers West), among others.