Spain Part 1.....

As my regular readers will know we spent a week in southern Spain recently, we had a wonderful time. We shared an apartment with our good friends K&T, though they stayed on for another week (lucky so and so’s!).

Our flights with Easyjet from Liverpool were, as always, stress free and we arrived at Malaga airport approximately 7.30 p.m. local time. There is a superb train service from Malaga airport straight through to Fuengirola so, after collecting our baggage, we hotfooted over to the station and caught the train to our destination of Arroyo de la Miel, Benalmadena, from where our apartment was literally a five minute walk and as it cost only 7.5 Euro for four of us, compared to 30 Euro for a taxi, it had to be a good deal.

It was 9 p.m. when we reached the apartment so we quickly unpacked and descended on K&T’s favourite restaurant, JJ’s, where we were assured of a delicious, substantial, reasonably priced meal. K&T have many friends in Arroyo, as they have been staying there for many years, so we had many introductions on the first night.

We awoke the following day to bright sunshine but when we looked out of the window everyone was wearing coats, scarves and gloves! Undeterred we clad ourselves in cropped pants and t–shirts with a cardi (Just in case) and set off for the supermarket to get some supplies. Thankfully the kind owner of the apartment had left us a carton of milk, teabags, sugar, a loaf of bread and some spread so we could have some breakfast. Once we’d dropped off the supplies we set off walking along the coast in the sunshine. It was a little windy but we honestly only needed our cardis.

We walked quite a long way then stopped for a sandwich and a drink overlooking the sea, where we were serenaded by ‘Dos Amigos’, a couple of guys playing guitars and singing who were, surprisingly, quite good!

After a leisurely lunch we set off again along the prom to the marina at Benalmadena

There are lots of boats here (obviously because it’s a harbour) and lovely little shops and many apartments overlooking the marina. After a walk round we headed up the hill to catch the little Tivoli train that runs through the resorts back to Arroyo, unfortunately the train wasn’t running so we hopped in a taxi instead. 

Once back in Arroyo we went and arranged hire of a car for Wednesday and Thursday, as T had offered to drive and we wanted to visit Ronda and Nerja whilst we were there.  

We decided to go to the Chinese Restaurant for dinner, which was really lovely, then called in a couple of bars for a drink on the way back, which somehow turned into quite a few and it was 2 a.m. before we got back to the apartment!

Spain Part 2 coming soon.