Hacienda Beach Estepona

... all worth it. <br><br>The shuttle took us to the airport where we met up with 13 more overlanders. The couple from chili, Craig, Kati, Dan, Sarah, Gavin, Peter, Myumi, Dan H., ect. Then there was the most amazing European discount airlines ever and guess where my seat was? THE LAST ROW, there is already about half the normal leg room compared to a normal American airlines. Man 2.5 hours worth of hell with this weird guy who could not stop fidgeting to ...

... 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 ...

... un joli endroit où écouter de la musique live (un caveau semi-ouvert sur le ciel - on voit les étoiles!!). Trois français (2 guitares, 1 violoncelle) jouent du flamenco, de la musique des balkans et partent en live!! au final, trois de leurs amis les rejoignent et terminent en apothéose!! Je voyage pendant tout le concert, je grave ces musiques dans mon esprit pour qu'elles m'accompagnent dans les montagnes sur mon vélo!<br>

... shorter than I am to a few inches taller than I am. Along the side of the tunnel was periodic openings to allow for cannon and observation of the siege occurring below the mountain. After leaving the tunnels we headed back down the Rock to the town that lies between the Rock and the ocean. It is a small town of about 30,000 inhabitants that are part of the British Empire by referendum requested by the United Nations in 1967. The town is a mixture of a military town and a tourist ...

We officially entered the Atlantic Ocean, it was obvious because my TV started spinning, my pictures started to slam on the wall and all of my drawers and doors started to open. Who knew that classes could be canceled because of sea sickness?! Especially since it is crunch time and we only have one more day of classes. Kendel and I are perfectly fine, I had 2 ...

... if they'd make a sizable hole in the terminus wall if not the Rock itself. And then the walk to Spain - Gibraltar gets so clogged up with traffic its always best to walk to La Linea on the Spanish side to pick up the car. Often the Spanish officers seem to deliberately slow the incoming Gibralter traffic which curls in great loops on the approach to this tiny, overcrowded island..A mini England of fish and chips, pubs, M&amp;S and Morrison's ...

... inducing sunshine - I can see why this area is so popular with northern Europeans of varying descriptions! Fortunately the highly developed Costa Del Sol, located around the focal-point of Malaga, was not the final port of call. Alex and another mate Blake had set up camp about 160km westwards down the coast in the little ...

... what times the trains ran. It was last night after the Internet cafe closed that all the missing pieces of how the ridiculous Renfe (Spanish public train company) website and booking system worked. The reason I could never find the oddball trains in the booking system is that the regional trains (i.e. not expensive tourist trains running to the largest cities) can't be booked in advance and therefore don't show up on the booking part of the ...

... so no one would bother us and we were safe from the crazy drivers. left behind were some container boxes and a dump of office furniture. since it was a really windy night we made a shelter using the office tables and random sheets of plywood to make walls and keep the wind off ourselves. we slept well: hidden from the cold, across the street from gibraltar's mosque with it's red airplane visibility light ...

... car up to the top of the mountain, but when we got off we found it was closed (Sunday). We started to walk back the way we had come. It was quite a steep hike, but we managed to find the entrance to the nature reserve. It started raining harder at this point, and we were getting soaked. After we paid our "walkers fee" of 50p, we headed up to see the great siege tunnel. I ended up paying 11 euros for the attractions, while Tai seemed to ...