2013 - Day 3

Monday already. Day 3 of 8!!  Time seems to go much more quickly when you are on holiday!!

It's our 13th wedding anniversary today.

Today we had another leisurely morning. Breakfast and reading over coffee and Bimbo toast!

It was gone noon before we stirred ourselves to get washed and changed to go out.

I set the TomTom for Playamar (Torremolinos ) and we aygo'd there. 

Once again the TomTom route is a little different to the way we normally go. Yesterday we missed the Marbella arch over the road, twice. Today we avoided the coast road that we usually grind along.

Our first stop was a Mercadona supermarket where we wanted some lunch stuff, maybe bocadillos? Thwarted we bought some beer snacks and set off. Exiting the car proved a Challenge. Capital C challenge.

To get out you need a bar code to show you have shopped. We didn't have a bar code... Reversing back down the slope and re-parking we were able to get the ticket checked and a bar code receipt issued!  Phew.

We then had a run along the beach road until we left Torremolinos and entered the scrubby world under the flight path into the airport.

Turning 180° we stopped outside Casa Paco,  where we have eaten a few times before.

Lunch was seafood plata made up of small calamari, calamari rings, Boquerones and some strange deep fried wormy things. We didn't ask, just ate them.

It was still very hot as we walked up the beachfront so we had an ice-cream? Diet?  What diet?

Another stop on the way back at Lidl at Cala de Mijas to stock up something for dinner and replenish the beer stocks. Another 12-pack of San Miguel.

Then for me it was siesta time. Kindle reading can tire you out sometimes. Especially when accompanied by a San Miguel or two.

About 5.30 we saw the pool was empty do we went to round for a dip. I'm not a good swimmer. I did have lessons at Chadderton baths when I was about seven but fifty years have passed and although I can get by, it's not a skill I can claim to have mastered. Claire is a good swimmer though!!

Once swimmed out we returned to our balcony to air dry as it was still hot. The temp in the Aygo was a comfortable 29C earlier.

Dinner was at the apartment as we ate out at lunch time. 

It was my time to cook and I did pasta and albondigas, followed by cheesecake.

The evening drink to wash it down is Don Simon Tinto Verdano. A mixture of tinto wine and lemonade at 4% ABV. 

Then tune the TV into ITV1 and watch Corrie and maybe Doc Martin.

Tomorrow we'll probably drive up to Fuengirola Los Boliches and park the car and get the train into Malaga.