Torremolinos
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In
the beginning of June 1994 my friend Ralf and I decided
to go for holidays by car to Torremolinos (near Málaga).
After a trip of 13 hours we stayed overnight in Lloret de
Mar. The next day we still had to drive for another 9
hours to safely reach our destination, the Hotel
Cervantes in Torremolinos. Although my car was broken in
an accident by another german tourist on our second day
over there, and always having to drive in a rented car,
our holidays became really interesting and we saw a
beautiful landscape.
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The food in our 4-Star-Hotel was
disappointing, but it's closeness to the centre of Torremolinos (100m) was very agreeable. To get to the
beach we had to walk more than ten minutes indeed. The
Hotel Melía Torremolinos is situated much closer to the
beach, but it's really expensive. We didn't find the real
disco-nightlife over there, but went to the pubs with the
very nice Belgium girls Miranda and Hilde for many times.
The highlights of Torremolinos surely are the fine sandy
beach, the promenade of La Carihuela and the pedestrian
precinct . |
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Visited
destinations in the surroundings
| Being
PRYCA(now Carrefour)-fans, we were really happy finding
our most favourite "Hipermercado" at the
entrance of Málaga in the shopping center "Los
Patios" (including a Mc'Donalds). The planned
destination of this trip was the Castillo de Gibralfaro
where you have a beautiful view all over Málaga and the
nearby coast. To visit other sights our time was to short
because we wanted to visit many more other places . |
Ronda
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famous "pueblo blanco" (white village) of Spain
is really worth to be seen. Above all the streets near
the famous bridge Puente Nuevo where you can look
down in the 200 meters deep Tajo-canyon, you really feel
like being on a holiday. You feel that you are in Spain.
You won't regret your trip to Ronda. |
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| View out of
the Tajo-canyon up to the bridge |
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The
shopping street of Ronda (at high noon) |
Nerja
| ... is a
holiday destination for many tourists, above all from
Germany. The most famous place of this village, the Balcón
de Europa is beautiful situated and really worth to
be seen. Even more famous are the Cuevas de Nerja.
This about 20,000 years old stalagmite-cave is really
worth a visit. |
| Balcón
de Europa |
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Balcón
de Europa |
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| View from
the Balcón de Europa |
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Former
inhabitant of the Cuevas de Nerja |
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El
Torcal
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impressing landscape of rocks visitors can find in the
Sierra de Torcal near Antequera. These strange shapes of
rock could be regarded for hours. And there's no doubt;
many of them look alike some big pancakes. |
La
Garganta del Chorro
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is also situated near Antequera and means "Chorro's
gorge". It should be a breathtaking gorge, with
masses of water falling down making horrible noise. After
searching for a long time, we finally found the entrance
of the gorge. But even if we didn't found a waterfall, we
were very impressed indeed. Above all we liked the
dangerous parts of the way without a railing on the
border of the gorge. May be we could have found the
waterfall walking on and on, but there was so little
water in the gorge, that we couldn't image to find a real
waterfall. At all we were very impressed of the gorge and
one day we'll return and find the waterfall. |
Garganta del
Chorro
Reservoir near the Garganta
del Chorro
Alhambra
in Granada
..., has to
be seen!!! A large castle including a palace and a beautiful
large garden with many flowers. Really impressing!!!
Part of
the castle
View at
Granada
House
situated inside the castle
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there's much green to be seen
... and
many flowers
The part
of the garden called Generalife...
... is
very beautiful.
The
walls full of frescos
... and
of course the famous Lion-court
... and
there's much more to be seen, but now it's going on with:
Marbella
On our trip
to Marbella we were accompanied by Miranda and Hilde. After a
short sightseeing-walk at the famous port Puerto Banús,
we went for supper to the centre of Marbella to the wonderful Plaza
de los Naranjos. This is a place in the middle of many old
Spanish houses with many outdoor restaurants and some
orange-bushes in the centre. The feeling over there is
indescribable great.
Puerto
Banús
... closer
... with Hilde
and Miranda
Plaza de
los Naranjos
Los
Pueblos Blancos, Gibraltar and More
One day we
made a trip to Gibraltar and were astonished. Police
controlling each person leaving it, what took a long time. No
view to Africa, because of the bad weather and nothing really
interesting at the foot of the big rock. May be it's more
interesting having a good sight and driving on top of the rock
but this day was a bad day.
the Rock of
Gibraltar
View to Africa
Los
Pueblos Blancos
After leaving
Gibraltar, we passed some of the famous white villages. The
highlight surely was the beautiful situated village Casares, but
also the bulls and the storks we saw were very interesting to
see.
The other pictures I made somewhere in the landscape.
"Pueblo
Blanco"
Casares
Landscape near
the white villages
a Finca (ranch)
... and some
lonely flowers
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That was all I can
tell you about the Cost del Sol (sunny coast) and it's
surrounding. We didn't get to Mijas (not enough time); and there
are no interesting pictures from the Sierra Nevada because the
mountains looked very grey and a little bit disappointing
(without snow). |
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The End!!!
Translated in April 2001
