Princess Costa Del Sol Estepona

... Real Andalucia), Marbella won´t spring to mind at all.......... Ronda for sure and maybe nowadays Malaga as well, as they have done up the City center!

In all the building boom over the last 15 years, the Quaint Old Town of Marbella has not been
touched at all and this beautiful authentic small Andalusian fishing village, called Marbella, still remains in tact!

One can feel the new rush into the Old ...

We decided today we would stay in the area and just go driving. We wanted to check out some wineries and take a cave tour. But we didn't get a chance to do either one. The cave tours were 5 hours long. The caves are amazing but not sure Shae would be able to hang that long. my guess is not. And we drove and drove and didn't find one winery. I think we got close one time. But anyway the ride was beautiful and there was a great restaurant in a white village ...

We got up and headed out to the tourist office in Montejaque. We didn't have a plan for the day but we thought we might head down south to Gibraltor. Mike spoke with the tourism guide and he said "don't waste your time. It's just a rock". He suggested we head inland a bit and hit up a town (one of the white hillside villages) called Grazalema and then head over to local lake in another hillside village called Zahara ...

... Mum napped, I checked email, sent photos of the hotel to Paul. Around 7:30pm, we drove into town for dinner. Found a parking space near a small pedestrian walkway. Many of the bars and cafes were open, but few people were out and about as it is so damn cold! Could easily imagine walking along this street on a balmy summer night - it was be ideal. Found a small pizza shop - just a few bar tables with high stools - but tasty pizza and lasagna. We chatted a bit ...

... is. NOT. Tom- The Weather, so unpredictable. Shaz - No Cadbury chocolate, the expense of everything, the really unpredictable weather and feeling isolated at times not being able to understand the language or the rules.... Pete - The pain- in- the- ass weather.....unpredictable, forecasts always wrong, crowded marinas and anchorages and the way the marinas extort ridiculous amounts of money for tying up. Best Food Harri- My Mothers homemade cooking.. Tom ...

... denying themselves access to ¾ of Gibralter. Apart from Ape's den and actually seeing a little monkey jump up and scare the **** out of an English lady as it stole her hotdog and ran off my favorite part of Gibralter was the 'Scooter Rage'. It seems that people in Gibralter don't like waiting and aren't afraid to tell people if they think they're slowing them down. Funny stuff!!!

... for getting up and surfing. I hope that the beaches back home aren't as crowded with kites as these so he can keep it up. Tarifa town is a cute little place as well, sitting at the eastern end of the beach/bay. Aside from the 50 or so kite-surfing schools there's a couple of Spanish language schools, a nice selection of ...

M: 'The air-conditionings on..' D: 'Quick, close the window!' S: 'Why?' D: 'It makes the air-conditioning work overtime..' It's worked out well having made our last overnight in Estepona. Another glorious start today saw us dawdling along its lengthy promenade as the sun followed slowly behind us. We passed joggers, dog walkers, cyclists and people exercising on the beach. It was most ...

For such a small country, the surreal and mostly quite beautiful Gibraltar sure made an imprint in our memory. First of all, it took us forever to get there. A bus to Algeciras, the Spanish port town on the other side of the bay. Then a bus to La Linea, the smaller town literally next to the country. Finally, the border crossing, where people simply walked back and forth. We should have known it would be bad when we crossed the border. After making the ...

... 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 ...