Hotel Perla Marina Nerja

Enjoyed nice breakfast of fresh orange juice with a ham and cheese toastie and coffee. As soon as I stepped outside the door I realised that the wind had shifted around from the west and was now blowing from the north - very good news. The satnav device had real problems finding me a route out of the town and I completed a bit of a circuit before I finally got going - uphill of course! Exchanged waves with a group of cyclists gathering for their Saturday morning ...

My adventures have included being down with a cold, but I'm feeling much better now after a day's rest. But time is going by, and it is now 10 days since I started out. I am in front of a computer in the local university library (don´t ask me how I got here!) and am on a borrowed password to get into the system. So far so good, but it still won´t let me download pictures from my camera without yet another password! Another ...

... cuantas galletas María, es la dieta que seguimos hoy para mantener nuestro "tipazo". Tenemos la cena preparada pero necesitamos de un lugar muy acogedor donde poder disfrutarla, si encima fuese en buena compañía y con un buen fondo musical, mejor que mejor. Un montoncito de piedras que los trabajadores de Renfe nos dejaron estratégicamente colocadas sirven para asentar nuestras posaderas... Las vías a dos metros, son las preciosas vistas que tenemos ...

... in all of Europe that requires everyone to get off the bus when it stops during the middle of the night. Our plan was to rest on the bus so that we wouldn't have to get a hostel. Unfortunately, we were rudely awakened twice to climb off the bus into the cold to wait for twenty minutes. I even asked the Spaniards around us if this was normal procedure and they assured me that they'd never had this sort of problem before. We got into Malaga at 7:00 in the morning ...

... rains stay away. The weather has been very agreeable. What else... We made some great new rowdy friends in a small village in the fruit orchard valley. The kids were all drinking cheap watery wine from old timey flasks, beating on home made drums, marching through the street causing a ruckus. they were rocking the bleached out mullet mohawks and they wanted us to drink with them. normally this would have been a perfect opportunity for them to tease and heckle ...

Rented a really nice car (peugeot 205 which means nothing if you are not into cars like me) so C. was happy as we did about 600km. Had a great time, we flew into Malaga late and had to stay overnight in 'Hotel Las Vegas' (why its called that I dunno)in city centre as Malaga "don't do airport hotels", then back to airport next morn where it's not to easy to get to the car rental desk if you haven't just stepped off a plane, weird, not like perfect Dublin! Anyway an hour later we hit the ...

... the next day. As you can see from our map pin, that was not the case. The night train was very uneventful and we brought our own wine and cheese on the train to have a little picnic in our private compartment. All the travel books say, "..be rocked to sleep by the steady rocking of the train". Don´t know what train they rode, but let me assure it was not a Portuguese overnight train. So, when we arrived in Madrid the next morning we were a little worse ...

Hello to all, I want to apologize for not updating the blog until now. We have been extremely busy trying to figure out everything Spanish. Ok, where to start??? I guess from the very beginning. The flight from Dulles to Heathrow was very uninteresting. The plane was not full at all so it was quite a nice plane ride. Once we got to Heathrow and had to change planes it got interesting...in a sort of Alice in Wonderland rabbit hole ...