Artola Golf Marbella

... Spanish holidays. Most of them seem to be related to the church. It's interesting how today it seems like the church plays such little role in peoples lives but in the past it is what dominated most aspects of society. Back to today. I knew it was Thanksgiving but it sure as heck didn't feel like it. At school the teachers didn't bring up the subject or cut us any slack. The weather was kind of rainy today so that helped. It didn ...

... have it replaced, but in hindsight I believe that is an American mentality (a tradition of America). I asked Alex if he thought it would be wrong for me to ask and he replied, "What have you got to lose?" which is the state of mind I like. So I went in and asked the bartender if I could exchange it and she was a little surprised and she asked her boss, and they exchanged it. When I went out of the bar with a beer in my hand the group ...

We woke with hangovers again and decided to go to the smugglers bar for a full english fry up. We have not ate bacon for the whole time that we have been away and I have been dreaming about bacon buttys lol. It was a really nice breakfast and just the thing for a hang over. We then went for a walk down the famous strip of the Costa Del Sol. Its ok and really pretty the beach is lovely and there are lots of bars and even spanish ...

... was very tasty and I feel better that I can at least eat again without being so paranoid about where the food has been stored all day. We had met an english lady on the train that was so ill by the food in morroco that i felt really glad and relieved that we had come off so lucky.

Ian was feeling much better as well thankfully and we go on the bus to our final place the Costa Del Sol rodney! It was a ...

... for an affordable holiday. torremolinos tends to have more belgian, dutch and northern europeans.

terry and i travel well together, we usually don't go out to eat and prefer to shop for our own groceries, stay in and cook. we usually rent a time share or in this case an apartment/hotel which is like a time share only the kitchen does not have an oven, just a stove top. there is a hybrid microwave with convection oven that i am afraid of using after my toast ...

... I saw a bullfight my first week here and it really wasn't my cup of tea, but it was interesting to be where all the action takes place. I then proceeded to go exploring on my own, which I actually do quite frequently. I love people but I find I really enjoy some things better when I make my own experience not surrounded by what everyone else wants to do. I started by going down into the Ronda Gorge, which literally looks like a city built on a cliff. It is just ...

After breakfast and nice stroll on the beach, we head out to see the next city in the list which was Malaga. Malaga is very big compare to its size on the map :)
The trick is to head out to the old part of town to see the actions. Lots of architectures are dated back few years.
Cathedral as like the other places, is a must see in the old city. Small cobble stone alleys make it very nice and easy for walk.
The best ...

... whose foundations are Roman although the superstructure has been rebuilt over the years. Not far outside Cordoba we saw a fine Moorish palace, now in ruins, the Medina Azahara. It was built by Caliph Abd el Rahman in 936 and named after his favourite wife (there were 6,000 of them in his harem so he was spoilt for choice.) It was built on a grand scale using vast quantities of marble, ebony, ivory and ...

... Portugal. This was reason to celebrate or at least get off the bus. I grabbed my luggage and I found a seat in the bus station and immediately began my H2Os( Handy 2 O's (Orientation and Organization)) I ripped the two Marbella pages from my "Lets Go" guide and decided to call the listed hostels to make sure they had room before wandering into the night. Now, for those of you who have never made a phone call in Spain, let me tell you its a little different, Therefore I have ...

... t really talk to us. Most of her time is spent in front of the TV, and we donīt usually watch it. Although i did watch Anistasia in spanish with her yesterday because i love that movie and i didnīt have class for another like 4 hours. It was awesome. Mamaīs husband, Jose, is a camera man for a news station so he is always running off to work at strange hours of the day. We donīt really talk to him either. But we do talk to mama a lot. Every meal we ...