Marbella etc (6)

MONDAY 6 Oct (cont'd.)

Despite Jo's lack of mobility she suggested we go out for a short walk in the afternoon so off we toddled, past the relatively new Rafa Nadal Tennis Centre:

and on to the humpy-back boardwalk:

then rewarded by a small bottle of Frappucino:

and later, dinner, beer, wine and bingo in Charlies bar.

TUESDAY 7th October

Yesterday was going to be a down day - books and pool - but today definitely was. Still, we had pre-dinner drinks back at Charlies:

WEDNESDAY 8th October

The day started, as usual, with a hot bath to ease Jo's back. Afterwards she felt able to suggest another walk - this time eastwards towards the boardwalk at Dunas de Artola where we'd been a few times before. We weren't sure we would make it all the way there but in the end we did. We hadn't previously noticed that the beach there is officially a naturist one but somebody with orange paint obviously didn't think it should be allowed:

Then it was boardwalk all the way, past the Monument and on to a beach cafe for lunch - yes, gambas pil-pil again:

We slightly lost our way on the return journey so, at the end of the day, I had clocked up almost 19,000 steps - all in flip-flops/thongs - the highest total yet.

We had booked dinner at El Med, the resort's upmarket restaurant down by the sea, but first we had to finish off the 2 remaining beers in the fridge plus what was left in the gin bottle. When we did finally get to El Med for our 7:30 pm booking we were surprised to see that the Spanish Night, which started at 6:00 pm, was still going strong - the flamenco section hadn't even started.

We setttled down for our meal anyway and took a few pictures as the sun was going down:

I chose my meal badly - whole sea bass but done in the Cadiz way where they slice up the meat and then deep fry it:

Liqueur coffees afterwards - mine was French (Cointreau) and Jo's was Calypso (Tia Maria):

Jo may have been straining to see a bit of the Flamenco dancing - but what a racket it was. Hardly a nice quiet dinner in lovely surroundings.

THURSDAY 9th October

Packed, checked out and Uber'd all the way to airport, where we now sit in the VIP lounge (as they call it). Ross is picking us up at ABZ.