Oh Hey, From Europe – Day 5: ANIMALS!!!!
Nerja has beautiful beaches, a fun beach town touristy vibe, and, oh yes I forgot, a G.D. DONKEY PETTING ZOO!!! Seriously, this morning probably made my whole trip. I was afraid to write about it ahead of time until my dream actually came true, but now it has – for 2€, we got to spend the morning feeding giant buckets food to a bunch of donkeys, one particularly amazing Andalusian Donkey named Conan (see today’s photo), two incredibly frightening-looking but awesome pig-beasts, a boring sheep with dead eyes, and five horses. Clearly this was heaven for me. Unfortunately there were no goats so our plan to recreate my award-winning goat show 4H picture with my goat Daisy was not possible.
In all seriousness, the place is called Nerja Donkey Sanctuary and it is located right on the edge of Nerja, just a mile away from the beach center. This wonderful little place subsists entirely off their own dime and from visitor donations (including selling buckets of food to feed the donkeys, which we happily partook in because why on earth wouldn’t you) and cares for abused and neglected donkeys and other farm animals.
We spent a really long time there and I pet EVERYTHING, and was really dirty when we left. Rebecca somewhat got over her fear of horses and touched a few, and then gave her entire bucket of food to one donkey with whom she forged a very special bond (obvs Conan).
It’s hard for me to even write anything else about the day besides the donkey sanctuary. We slept in again, then slept at the beach for 4 hours (it was amazing), ate some pizza (we know we are in Spain, shut up), slept again for siesta, ate more at this sweet tapas bar called 34 which seemed to be the only place not overrun by tourists in the entire area and was also very good, got some tough love Spanish lessons from our nice waiter, and then went home to sleep more.
Off to Seville early in the AM!
XOXO Chicas Del Gossip (need to learn how to say this in Portuguese soon)