Rain Rain Go to Spain....

Olive and Reg (AKA Ann & Tony) on the bus

 


 Sadly the weather has taken a turn for the worse, a week of very heavy rain and storms. I’m afraid to say we’ve bin spoilt, 10 days or so with some wonderful Mediterranean sunshine on our backs. We’ve been so lucky with the weather to date that we forgot the reality, It’s March, and at this time of the year even this far south, it can get cold with prolonged periods of heavy rain.

Ann catching up on her gym work out

 As might be expected, the weather has impacted on our bike tour, we’ve had to batten down the hatches, so to speak and sit it out till such time the rain abates. We’ve even resorted to using local buses and the ‘el naturale’ - shank’ss pony, when the weather permits. It’s good fun and kinda exciting using local buses hoping that you’ll finish up somewhere near to your planned destination. There is a magnificent seafront walk from San Pedro to Puerto Banus to Marbella, probably a distance of 6 or 7 km, beautiful when the sun is shining. However, over the last week or so, very reminiscent of the seafront between Rhyl and Prestatyn in December, high winds and rain with the breakers crashing over the sea wall lol.

Meet Anns new friend 'Huga Tree'





Tony trying to look cool 

During the time we’ve been here in Puerto Banus, we’ve gotten to know one or two of the staff at a local department store- Cortes Ingles (similar to John Lewis),who have taken to greeting us each time we enter the store crying out ‘Hi Antonnio and Ann, we’ve missed you’ -only joking lol, but I’m sure it’s only a matter of time.

We use the store to buy our provisions, it also has a restaurant cafe on the second floor that offers free wifi and it’s from here that we seem to spend quite alot of time accessing our computer and carrying out some of D I Cronin’s future investigative and dectective work. It’s really funny, on numerous occasions we’ve found ourselves leaving the store with the staff (it closes at 10pm), because we’ve been in the cafe that long using the computer, we lost track of time. I have to say there’s been a great temptation to stay inside the store and just retire to the bedding dept, right next door where they have some very fine beds. I’m sure they wouldn’t even notice or mind for that matter, but Ann isn’t up for it, can you believe it!!

We are now really looking forward to getting back on the bike and continuing our tour; We’re hoping the inclement weather will cease shortly, but according to the forecast it’ll remain wet and windy till next Tuesday 15th March, at which time we’re off, heading east, up the coast to Valencia - Our first destination will be the ancient City of Granada – bring it on.

We'd like to say a big thank-you toBarb and Chris for the use of their lovely apartment, which has been a great blessing and a safe haven after we aborted our planned visit to Morocco.

That’s all just now, and hopefully the blog will kick off again with our visit to Granada.

Lots of luv The intrepid Easy Riders xxx