Hotel Agh Estepona

... only seven suites, Hotel Claude is a stylish little sanctuary in the bustling historic center of Marbella!
This is the place you want to go when you are looking for a quiet and romantic break in an authentic Spanish village, but also perfect for any relaxing long stays if you wish to feel at "home"!! Not a place for those "Nikkie Beach" and "Puro Beach" party animals!!!!

Welcome to the house of Claude

... order to get an early start in the morning.

Shae question for daddy: She's riding on his shoulders..."Daddy does everyone have hair in their ears? or just you? It's white hair"

Another one, Daddy is trying to get out of the parking garage in Ronda. It's very steep. He stalled the car 5 times and someone was behind him.. I'm laughing hard and Shae is laughing. She says, "Daddy you're a knucklehead." I really don't know where she gets that...;)

... ll have to take it another day. We drove back to Montejaque and had dinner in the Inn (english couple). It was a nice meal with great wine. We're really enjoying the wine from the region. It's funny - when you ask for a glass of vino you don't get a choice, they give you the house wine. it's always good though. We watched a movie when we got back and then to sleep. tomorrow morning is Sevilla (another big city)!

Well todays events were mostly based around food. Firstly, the worst food you can eat on a seriously hot beach is soup. Another important life lesson. Secondly, when we stopped for some traffic lights a bloke started talking to us out of his car window and he ended up offereing us some red liqurice. Thats not really normal is it. I mean has that ever ...

... definitely get used to. From there we drove out to the massive supermarket of Carresfour to grab things we had either forgotten or were unable to bring on the plane with us. Just to make sure we had even more **** we picked up full size pillows (oh the luxury), wet wipes, emergencies supplies of tinned meat for Oliver, euro 0.50 cartons of red wine and of course slabs of beer. Good to see the priorities are still ...

... size, but breakwalls and airports in the middle of the harbour confuse us until we stumble into the marina. Nice to hear English voices telling us what to do and where to tie up. After a quick lunch at one of the marina cafes Brett, Connie and Hannah head off in search of an internet cafe to try and sort out their return flight dramas. We head off to explore. The next morning we all head off to discover the Rock of Gibraltar and it's history ...

... a colony of the United Kingdom . Traveling there is somewhat of a culture shock because you don't feel like you have left Spain but it becomes very obvious that you are in a different country as soon as you get through immigration. The natives of Gibraltar all consider themselves British and are educated and brought up with English as their first language but speak Spanish as a native language as well. The tour guide that my group had was a proud 4th ...

... 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 ...

... into Puerto Banus and it would take us about 45 mins. So we set off around lunchtime with the hope that we could wander that way and stop somewhere for lunch along the way. It would have been okay if we hadn't been the wrong side of the sewage pipe which seemed to be pumping at full pelt into the sea. It was also quite ...

... in bird droppings. What sounded like lively chatter from the street stuttered and paused. I showed my bag and muttered "Hiked down...Seagulls... nesting?" He pointed to the WC at the back. Bag washed, hair slicked back with sweat and my face splashed with water, I came back and grabbed a stool at the bar. I asked for a pint of Murphy´s Irish Red, bummed a cigarette from some broad and watched the barkeep play with the pub Boxer.