Apartamentos Vistamar Benalmadena

After days at sea we had a short stop in Malaga before docking the next day back in Savona. I have decided that I am not crazy about the days at sea. Even though I really enjoyed all the ports, I don't think I would do anther big curise. The fact that there were only small number of people who spoke enlgish on the ship was interesting. So wanted to speak another language .. any lanaugage. Even when I told the Germans I did nto speak Germann they kept talking!

... winning again, 900 euro to be exact) or playing golf. Perfect!

One of our day´s we drove to Gibraltar, which is only about 1.5 hours drive away, but actually a part of England(?). I absolutely loved it, not because of the English-ness (Marks and Sparks, etc) but because of the MONKEYS!! I LOVE MONKEYS!! We drove up the side of the "rock" and visited a cave (pretty cool, but nowhere near as good as the ones down south ...

... la Constitucion. Then on my walk home tonight I noticed a large plastic tree they are putting up. Tomorrow night is the lighting of everything and I think it should be awesome. It's so cool seeing how another country celebrates Christmas. While they don't have lights on individual houses the public displays of decorations are incredible.

For lunch today Maria made a soup and a plate with three different kinds of meat ...

Malaga is the major city near Frigiliana (where the train dropped us off). We spent a day there when we picked up Jaime and Rob at the train station. Some highlights:

• Watching Jaime and Rob come off the train and meet us in Spain
• The Picasso Museum – a wonderful ...
  Málaga, Andalusia, Spain and Canary Islands jennyandpaul2

... in English. She was very nice. I really enjoyed this bar, it was so refreshing to hear Spanish songs for a change. The night ended on a down note though…Juan’s bike got stolen. : ( It’s ironic because I had a conversation earlier about if I should get a bike and my friend from the intercabio that is from Malaga told me no, it would get stolen. It sucks that Juan’s bike got stolen. All in all tonight was a good night.

... ill but it was cheap and filled us up.

We went to a place called Montys bar where they had a live act on we thought it was going to be really cheesy but it turned out to be ok. Steve the man who was playing was really good and played lots of old classics man rock songs so Ian liked it and I enjoyed it to. We then stagered back to our room around midnight a little drunk again. Looks like we are fitting right in with this holiday.

... drive along the coast through Marbella and we even saw the rock of Gibralter as well. As we where travelling though you could not help but notice the strips of english bars and restaurants and we laughed about what we have got coming up.

We got the the centre of Torrimolinos and got a taxi to our hotel. Its ok the hotel is clean and we have a large kitchen and balcony not overlooking the pool but its ok ...

... is heavier than i normally travel with, getting around the london train stations is challenging at best especially when there is no escalator or elevator.on two seperate occasions during this trek i was surprised to get two seperate offers from complete strangers to help me carry my luggage down the stair. i look at this as nothing more than good karma, if you put it out there it will come back to you. i guess helping the lost tourists in san francisco paid off?
Málaga, Andalusia, Spain and Canary Islands cruiseone2003

... well, I don´t think they really ride camels anymore in the city of Tangier anyway. After a couple more bus photos, it was back on the ferry to Spain.

All in all, here´s the verdict on Tangier. It is definitely a changing city, filled with construction of new hotels and lots of places trying to spruce up their looks. I wish we could have spent more time to actually see the real Morocco, instead of getting hustled around on the tour bus, but it was worth it none the less ...

... Indian food. We also did a little shopping. The town has a hippie/arabian feel. Everyone seems really friendly, but very chill at the same time. The views from almost every angle of the city are amazing! Then on Weds we spent most of the day at the Alhambra. This place was worth the long trek. Scott and I had a little hang-up at the beginning bc we could not find where we were supposed to pick up our tickets that we had preordered. After running ...