Malaga!

Friday was going to see us heading down to the coast around the Malaga area.  We reckoned that even though it was Good Friday, the resort would very likely be open and bustling.  Well, yesterday Kevin looked up the weather forcast for us and Malaga was due to have thunder and lightening all day Friday.  So that put an end to those plans.

No shops open and nowhere to go was a bit naff.   Simon had put on his favourite all time film - Field of Dreams so we both watched that before the girls emerged from their beds.  As usual, we were both in tears at the end of it.  It made me think a bit of Distant Warning and all the people who have come and gone through the forum there, and how sometimes we don't need someone to believe in, but to know that there is someone to believe in us, and give us the confidence to achieve our dreams.  It really is a tremendous story and made me think a lot. Again.

We did venture out in the afternoon to drive to some picturesque reservoirs a few miles away from Estepa.  I managed to get some final photos.

Castle at Teba

Random tree that I snapped from the car window

There were poppies everywhere, which was lovely to see, so I had to get the obligatory photos of those.

Poppies!

Also we kept seeing sings for El Saucejo which just made me giggle.  I made Simon drive around the roundabout 3 times until I got a photo with all of the sign in.   Holiday hysteria had probably set in at that point.It was good to get out but it wasn't really what we had wanted to do the last day of our holidays.

This made me laugh

Some of the miles of olive groves we saw everywhere

So to recap on the week no Alhambra Palace, no Seville and now no Malaga, and a case of severe sunburn for half of the week - what a disaster!  On the plus side, we had a chilled out week, didn't argue much, and have an excuse to go back again.

More rain, so I cobbled together a meal with the remnant of our food supplies - not even The Bone Cafe was open today; packed, watched a bit of telly and gave the house a good sweep out and clean around before settling down for the night ready for an early start home in the morning.

Roll on America!