Pisa --> Barcelona --> Cabopino
The ferry trip to Spain went smoothly and we spent a night in a camp ground just south of Barcelona, near the airport. After putting the car in long stay parking we hopped on a plane and flew to Malaga, on the south coast of Spain. Here we met up with Geraldine for the start of our holiday within our holiday.
Geraldine's folks have an amazing apartment in Cabopino, a coastal town about 30 minutes from Malaga. It would be hard to imagine a more idyllic and relaxing setting. Amazing apartment, beautiful grounds, stunning pool, perfect weather, and cheap food and grog to top it off. The apartment number was 601 and it has now become our benchmark for any place that we stay, for example ... "this place has a nice pool, but it ain't no 601!".
The original plan was to spend 9 nights in the south of Spain, using Cabopino as a base for day trips and a couple of over night forays into the country side. However, the longer we stayed in 601 the less we wanted to leave. Our days comprised of late starts, fruit salad breakies, a few hours by the pool, Wimbledon on the big screen, book reading, napping, beer drinking and dreaming up what we were going to eat for dinner. Geraldine and Yvonne are both great cooks and we had some of the best seafood meals of our entire trip in 601. Mussels, calamari, tuna steaks ... yum.
There were a few rare occasions that we managed to tear ourselves away from 601, dinner at a local restaurant and even a couple of days on the road, but it seemed as if 601 was always there, like some drug or the call of a siren beckoning us home.A big thank you to Geraldine and her folks for spoiling us and letting us stay in their little piece of paradise. Not only have you given us the "601 accommodation rating scale", but also some of the most memorable and relaxing time on our holidays.
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