Wednesday, April 4, 2007

sun in nerja




Time for a break, time for a rest. We are in Nerja, a smallish beach town about 100 miles east from Gibraltar. Although the weather has been “partly sunny” (Oregon language), we have gotten plenty of sun, sleep, and playing around on the beach. Also, we are hearing more British accents in Nerja than anywhere else in Spain. I guess they get about as much sun there as we do in Portland in the winter, and where do they come for sun? Spain, of course. Our hotel is run by a very nice couple named Ian and Jane who just bought the Hotel 2 weeks ago. There are several bars in town showing nightly football games (last night Liverpool 3-0 over PSV Einthoven, tonight is Manchester United vs. Rome), and even an English candy store down the street from us (vegetarian candy of course). In fact I am typing this using the wi-fi in an English style pub with a very large screen TV. Liam made the observation, "we got TWO vacations, to go to the beach and to go to Spain." Our plan is to rest up for the 10hr drive to Barcelona where we will be on Easter weekend.