Devall Travels

Monday already. Day 3 of 8!!  Time seems to go much more quickly when you are on holiday!! It's our 13th wedding anniversary today. Today we had another leisurely morning. Breakfast and reading over coffee and Bimbo toast! It was gone noon before we stirred ourselves to get washed and changed to go out. I set the TomTom for Playamar (Torremolinos ) and we aygo'd there.  Once again the TomTom route is a little different to the way we normally go. Yesterday we missed the Marbella arch over the road, twice. Today we avoided the coast road that we usually grind along. Our first stop was a Mercadona supermarket where we wanted some lunch stuff, maybe bocadillos? Thwarted we bought some beer snacks and set off. Exiting the car proved a Challenge. Capital C challenge. To get out you need a bar code to show you have shopped. We didn't have a bar code... Reversing back down the slope and re-parking we were able to get the tic...

Here we are again in Spain. Almost a year after our last visit and this year we are staying in Torrenueva near Mijas Costa. We stayed in this resort a few times before and have always enjoyed the quiet and calm. The resort has very little in the way of amenities and that is pretty much okay with us. How it actually scores 3* on the RCI site I have no idea.  This year we have apartment 510 overlooking the pool area. We have stayed more often in the 700 block a little further around. Our flight over with Norwegian was pretty good, arriving Malaga about 15 minutes ahead of schedule.  Once we had retrieved the big case we were off in search of the car hire rep.  A couple of laps of the exit area and we eventually found her. A short walk to a minibus and a very short drive off-airport and we picked up a Toyota Aygo. A little tin box with four doors and a boot area that would be a tight fit for a chihuahua. The big ...