King Juan Carlos in Ronda

The King of Spain, Juan Carlos was in Ronda today, and knowing the crowds and traffic would be terrible we decided to stay away, I mean the chance of actually getting a photo of the king would be next to nil with all the crowds.

So having made the decision to stay out of town we immediately forgot all about his visit, then realized this morning that we had to go into town to do some shopping and catch up with friends for a coffee.

Silly us, imagine making a conscious decision to avoid town today, and then forgetting all about it and ending up in town after all. Worst of all we didn't see the king, but we did get caught up in the traffic.

When we finally left town to come home we got to the bottom end of town and came across several cops keeping an eye on traffic and no doubt the surrounding area, so we asked them if we'd be able to see the king on his way out of town.

Sure they said, just wait over there, ie not where they were, so we did, and were rewarded with the king's car speeding past with a police escort, unfortunately the windows of the car were all dark, so after all of that we still didn't see his highness. How disappointing.