Our Friday fun-day adventure was to walk the 5km El Caminito del Rey (The King's Little Path). It’s a walkway that clings precariously to the vertical sides of a narrow gorge in El Chorro, with the Guadalhorce River churning across the rocks some 100 metres below. If you’re afraid of heights, it’s the stuff of nightmares. The walkway … Continue reading The awesome and alarming El Caminito Del Rey
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and based on the thousands of people who flock to Costa de Sol beaches every day, there’s a lot of beauty to be found on the playas of southern Spain. This beach (pictured) is called Playa-Balneario Nuestra Señora del Carmen (Beach Spa of Our Lady of Carmen) … Continue reading Spanish Beaches & Restaurants …. I Will Survive
It’s an amazing place for people watching. I love to watch the Northern Europeans and the Brits as they straggle from the beach to the bars and restaurants. They glow pinkly from too much sun or too much cerveza, or both. Their feet are sandy, the shirts are off, and they grin widely as they walk along the promenade, volleyballs and beach umbrellas held hostage under sweaty armpits.
It has been a less than auspicious start to our holiday, as the following trio of bad news explains…… uno, dos, tres. Let’s go! Uno - Swiping right with Uber and Airbnb Compared to a hotel booking, the Airbnb check-in always has some complications around it, the Malaga apartment being no exception. We had arranged … Continue reading Bad news comes in Tres? (hopefully)
Fifteen hours is not enough time to see Paris, especially when you arrive at 3pm and need to be at the airport by 6.30am the following morning. We only have ourselves and our poor booking skills to blame. C’est la vie - or as Ned Kelly would say it, such is life. Determined to make … Continue reading 15 hours in Paris & other catastrophes
When in Spain, be sure to order a small plate of pimientos de padron. They are little green peppers which taste similar to a sweet green capsicum, except that one in ten has a kick like a mule!! They are cooked in olive oil until they blister (about 1 minute) and then sprinkled with salt. It's a … Continue reading Pimientos de Padron
Despite spending 20 days in Spain, I’ve not yet eaten any churros. Churros and long delicious pastries, deep fried, sprinkled with sugar, and often accompanied with hot chocolate. Typically, you would order churros y chocolate. On our last trip to Malaga, Ross, not one for exaggeration, famously said “there’s hundreds of churros cafes here”. But … Continue reading The search for Churros
Imagine, after the 1974 floods of Brisbane, the Council forefathers went: "Right, that's it! We're going to redirect the river around the city so that terrible flooding doesn't happen ever again". It sounds inconceivable doesn't it? But that's exactly what happened in Valencia after the floods of 1957. The floods devastated the city and 81 … Continue reading It takes big balls to divert a river – Valencia
If you want a couple of hours of silence from Rosco, it's simple. Take him on a small boat in "strong" seas. In nearly three hours, he only said 12 words, and six of them were "I'm not happy about this Kari". When I say small boat, it had a rigid hull with inflatable side … Continue reading Coastal Calamities in Albufeira
I'm not a fan of cats, I'm a dog person, and I always will be. Since we've been in Albufeira, we've been amazed by the enormous number of cats, just lying around in the sunshine, everywhere we go. So we go to this lookout / jetty today, and I kid you not, there must have … Continue reading Dos Gatos (Cats) of the Jetty
The Tepid Travellers 