Marbella etc (3)

TUESDAY 30th September

Breakast then final packing, check out and wait in the foyer for a while. We soon got fed up and wandered over to the bus station where I went up to the ticket desk and showed her my carefully researched screen shot:

"No, no, no" she said - "train to Fuengirola then bus from there". It seems this particular bus service doesn't run any more so off we trotted to the nearest train station where I went up to the desk thinking I could get tickets from there but I was told just to tap my credit card on the machine entry point - which we did - and it got us through in good time to catch the next train to Fuengirola.

3 stops later we were at Malaga airport - who knew there was a train station there? I've been to the Costa del Sol more than 20 times and was never aware of this. Anyway, 40 minutes later we were at the terminus in Fuengirola. Now the trick was getting through the electronic barriers - we tried several but none would accept my credit card. We spoke to one of the staff and he said it's ok - just walk through here - in 2 hours time your card will be charged with the maximum fare. Sounds good - except 4 days later the only charge on my credit card account is the nominal 1c card check.

Anyway we went for coffees and I ordered an Uber to take us to our resort - easy.

At the resort we were a little early but soon were in our apartment and had stocked up with food essentials from the Market Place. The second part of our holiday could now start.