It was time for a weekend break … we had found an amazing company who would deliver a hire car to us. Alvaro duly arrived at our boat on Saturday morning, apologising for being early with our car. A ridiculously small amount of paperwork later and we had the keys.
We drove to the beach resort of La Herradura for breakfast, stopping to admire the views along the way.
We stocked up on essentials before heading back to the marina (via the scenic route if course). As we arrived back at the resort we got stuck in a traffic jam. A bus had got stuck at the bottom of the hill so it just stopped short and started dropping off all it’s passengers. One of them was then dispatched to come and walk along the traffic queue telling us we’d all have to reverse as the bus had to reverse back up the hill !! It was a nightmare but luckily we were only second in line and we managed to get out of it’s way fairly easily. I must say though, reversing up a steep hill in a hired Fiat Panda with a coach hot on your heels is quite an experience.
We spent the afternoon relaxing before the next day when we were super excited to visit our lovely friends at their new villa.
Their place sits high on a hilltop above Competa and it is stunning. But more stunning was the fact that we got to spend time with Poppy and Judith. We had lots to catch up on and we spent a wonderful day relaxing together.
After our afternoon swim we went off exploring the land, trying to identify the myriad of fruit trees that they have. We found an apricot tree laden with fruit and ate them straight off the tree, delicious – time to find apricot recipes methinks 😉
As the day turned to evening we enjoyed a celebratory drink (or two) and a lovely meal.
Tines had great fun trying to catch gekkos
All too soon it was time to say goodbye – or hasta luego since I know we’ll be back.
We drove back down the hill on Monday morning and took the coastal motorway back to the marina.
We handed back the keys to the hire car and paid the bill – then headed off towards Motril – the conditions were forecast to be around 1m – 1.5m swell with 10-15 knots pushing us along our way.
When we actually got out of the marina once again we found the sea to be a bit choppier than anticipated !! So virtually no photos were taken, I was on the helm all morning trying to stave off slight seasickness !
To be honest that soon subsided as the sea picked up to 3m plus on the swelly side!!!! Luckily Motril is not far as the wind picked up again to 25 knots. Skipper Nigel did another excellent job of getting us on berth in extremely gusty conditions and we could relax….
We went to the club náutico for a delicious lunch and fell asleep ridiculously early after an absolutely wonderful weekend.
The Adventures of Gemini J 