Disaster, disaster, disaster!! May 2006

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Well, we're back from Spain, but not yet recovered! We had the most accident prone holiday ever. Three of us fell over and injured ourselves (no, we were not drunk!), the worst affected among us getting a really hard bang in the mouth and badly injuring her teeth. Lots of time (and money) were spent at the doctors and dentist, followed by R&R instead of gadding about as planned.
We did get to see the Alhambra, which was just as wonderful as we hoped it would be, but it did rain all day and we were like drowned rats! We wouldn't have missed it for anything (but seeing it in the sunshine would have made it even better!). www.alhambra.org This was typical of our luck this holiday, it was the only time it rained, the rest of the time was very hot. We also liked Mijas village, which while it is on the tourist trail is a very striking place with wonderful views, see the picture above of the view from the restaurant.
Club La Costa, Marina Del Sol village was great and the apartment lovely, and two of us stayed at the Hotel El Puerto, (try www.expedia.co.uk for good prices) right on the seafront in Fuengirola and gave good reports of it. All in all a most odd holiday, but we still enjoyed it in spite of all the disasters. Roll on the next one!

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