How do you fill in 2 weeks in a small town on the Costa del Sol in Southern Spain? At about 8am the sun gets up closely followed by the industrious Miranda. After a cup of tea she is off for a run or swim. An hour later Sally surfaces, followed by the lazy and now feeling guilty for sleeping so long, Tony and Debs. Over breakfast Miranda returns and lunch or brunch is taken, depending on the time and food consumed. The pool is visited by everyone with books ...

In Spain you get meat in a cone. True. Chopped up, cured meat in a cone. Meat is everywhere. I've never seen so many pork products in all of my life. Spaniards love their meat. And their meat is delicious. Beautifully cured, finely cut and available everywhere. Not so good for Debra and Sally but Tony and I were happy. Nom nom.

In order to see the city as a whole we set off on an open deck bus tour. In the process we found out that the next day was a region wide holiday and everything would be closed. Armed with this we powered through the bus tour stopping only to see the Miro exhibition and then a late lunch in a random café. Even more random was singing happy birthday to a 6 year old boy in the café. Our attempt at harmonies scarred the poor boy for life and brought the rest of t...

We meandered the nearby streets until we found a local for breakfast. Then we wandered even more trying to find our way back. The streets are labyrinths of shops, cafes, and sights. Wonderful. Fuelled up on coffee and cake we braved the metro and armed with our T-10 pass we negotiated the subway to Sagrada Familia. This was essentially a trial run for later that day and to try and book tickets. With a queue hundreds of meters long we were told to book online t...

Mini Cab to Gatwick. I was glad it was a fixed price as at one point I thought I saw France. Anyway it was a nice trip and we saw some come English countryside. At Gatwick we were cruely denied Gin and Pimms. Duty free considers travelling to Spain from England not 'international enough.' Miranda was so distressed that she tried to throw herself in front a Spanish airplane. OK it might have been throw herself at a Spanish airplane pilot, but we are talking det...