Welcome, Mary Ellen. I too love Andalucia, and am torn about what to do in Malaga--my husband's not been to Granada (or Spain for that matter), so we may do a tour up there. Or, rent a little car and putter around. I never made it to Nerja or Ronda when I was there years ago.

I'm poking around researching Santander at the moment. Would love to go to the Altamira site, or some other (real) paleolithic caves (you can't actually go into the Altamira caves any more), but I am finding very little information. Everybody says Santillana del Mar is beautiful.

I also am determined to do the Santiago de Compostela day, but wonder about private guides for that too--or doing it by train--apparently there is good service from/to both Vigo and Coruna. But if nobody else wants to go, I will just take the ship's tour and be very happy.