Days 318-321, 26-29 Apr '15, The time has come... the end is near, it's time to take... the final curtain... Believe it or not, our time in Spain has drawn to a close and the lovely people of Fuengirola put on a fair to celebrate (commiserate?) our departure. OK. Might have been a coincidence - but the Fair of International Places started the night of the 29th. First off we enjoyed a long, lazy day with sunbeds, parasols and fish & chips on the beach (recove...

Days 297-303, 5-11 Apr '15, Home to Fuengirola & Malaga Day Trip. We finished up our two week sit in Alhaurin el Grande on Wednesday 8 April and headed back down to the coast for a housesitters holiday. The equivalent of an out-of-work actor "resting". Quite blissful actually - in an inexpensive studio apartment with ocean views, less than 5 minutes walk to the beach and a stroll to the centre of town and all our favourite restaurants and tapas bars. We'd ha...

Days 290-296, 29 Mar-4 Apr '15, Semana Santa / Holy Week (AKA: Easter), Alhaurin el Grande, Spain. We have been lucky enough to experience Christmas in a few different countries and always enjoy the inevitable differences in climate, decorations and of course, food! We've spent Ramadan in several different Muslim countries (easy to do since it's a month). This year we have experienced Easter - Spain Style. Very little chocolate. No bunnies laying eggs, choc...

Days 283-289, 22-28 Mar '15, Owners Home, Outings, Travel Day to Alhaurin el Grande, exploratory excursion to Estepona. Well that may well sound like pretty disparate stuff - and you'd be right. After getting blue prints, wood and nails ready for building a new Ark, the rain finally stopped on Tuesday - just in time for our lovely owners to return from their cruise vacation. We picked them up at Malaga airport and headed out for a late dinner in Calle Moncayo -...

Days 276-282, 15-21 March 2015, Day trip to Ronda (16th), final tapas outing (21st), Hugely Important Solar Eclipse (unseen due to clouds), Nigh-on miraculous six odd days of constant rain (unheard of in southern Spain and contributed to non-sighting of eclipse). Obviously a very big week. We had taken a squiz at the weekly weather forecast and it did look a bit dodgy, so we took the Toro by the horns on Monday and hit the freeways for a day trip. Lucky that -...