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Life and living in Southern Spain by David Robson. July 2007 The adventure begins It was January 2002 when my wife Anne, and I, set off in our slightly dilapidated VW, towing our vastly over-loaded Ifor Williams box trailer, replete with our life-long possessions, heading for southern Spain. We had visited Spain the previous January and 'sussed out' the country, by taking an Easyjet flight from Liverpool to Malaga and hiring a Daewoo Matiz, which is similar to a dinky toy car, for those of you unfamiliar with the vehicle, and proceeding to drive 2500 miles around Spain in 10 days. Needless to say Georg, the car hire tout at the airport, who rented it to us, said on seeing the speedometer when we returned the vehicle: "Ze nes' time senyor, mebbe you rent ze larger car", (or words to that effect). He was probably starting to regret accosting us in the airport forecourt, where after the flight arrived late, and the car hire office had closed, we were stood looking non-plussed. His vehicle had probably depreciated in value by 20% with the additional mileage alone, let alone the wear and tear. It was only our second visit to the country, and our previous visit to Spain had been in August 1993 to Barcelona. The year after the city had hosted the Olympics. |
For anyone
interested in photos of these travels, and various other. and subsequent
jaunts around Spain, - Watch this space for up-coming various links to places
as diverse as Motril and Cordoba to Valencia and Seville.
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