Monday on Costa del Sol

It looked a bit more promising when we awoke but there were still some clouds around so we opted for a short trip to Mijas, detouring via Fuengirola to try out a specialist coffee shop for Ross. We found a small parking space for our Micra and walked round to the coffee shop, but it was shut!:

Across the road was another establishment and we had coffee and croissants on the street corner there, basking in the hot sun.

The drive to the pretty, whitewashed touristy mountain village of Mijas was up a narrow, winding road and finding a parking spot was again a struggle until we happened upon a multi-storey. Parking on the 2nd floor, we took the lift up to the 10th floor, which conveniently was the level of the touristy bits of the town. The views down to the coast are spectacular and my camera doesn't really do it justice. On a clear day, apparently you can see all the way to Gibraltar and across the Med to the Moroccan coast:

Walking round the bullring, we headed up the hill through the narrow streets to the highest viewpoint:

We had lunch in a little cafe on a side street. the King Prawns had the dirtiest alimentary canals we'd ever seen and we were a little nervous about digesting them - but we did.

Back at our resort, we did a bit of reading, snoozing and, in my case, a quick visit to the adult indoor pool before dinner at the onsite El Med restaurant.

It's now Tuesday morning and the sun is shining again so we're heading a little further afield today - up to the spectacular mountain village of Ronda. All we need is Ross to wake up.