A bit more about Spain

Thursday saw Susan feeling a little better and the boys ready for their 3rd game of golf in 3 days. We were up fairly early as the plan was to get to Villaricos for Menu del Dia at El Mar La Mar, after they had finished their round of golf. As there was a Society booked in from 10am, they needed to get out onto the course before then or they would be in for a 5 hour game which would mean we would be too late to eat. El Mar La Mar is, without doubt, a place worth visiting to have lunch. www.elmarlamar.com

Breakfast over the guys got their golf stuff together and opened the door - which is when we all realised, it was actually raining - quite heavily. It stopped us all in our tracks, we needed a conference about what would now happen with our day.

Ever hopeful, the guys decided they wanted to go upto the course and have a coffee and see how they felt about playing in the rain.

As we drank our coffee, we discovered that the Society had cancelled due to the weather and it now looked as if Alex & Neil would be the only people playing that morning. Neil had already got a great deal on the cost of their golf but with the weather being so bad he managed to get a further reduction, so that it was just too cheap to say no to - whatever the weather, apparently.

With a hopeful glance to the south where the sky 'looked a bit brighter' the guys made the decision - they were on a golfing holiday, they would play golf. 

And off they went.

Susan and I decided we would stay dry and went into Aguilas to the shopping centre for a wander. Later, we decided we would spend a couple of hours with our books, or in my case, my kindle and I finally finished my John Grisham.

I was looking forward to lunch and had even foregone a bun with morning coffee to make sure I had a good appetite. However, lunch was not to be - on collecting the guys Alex told us he was not feeling too well and by the time we had returned to the apartment he was really not well enough to go anywhere. As we were due to fly home the following day we had to make sure he recovered enough to travel. So, he started on the same tablets that I got from the pharmacy, and which seemed to have worked so well for Susan and we left him to relax.

Neil & I decided we would have lunch up at Annie's Bistro, and catch up with a few more friends. We had a lovely afternoon visiting and I couldn't believe how quickly we ran out of time and there were still people we hadn't seen - sorry Steph, hopefully next time.

And all too soon, we were back at the apartment packing for the flight home the following morning.

Spain had been cold, very cold and wet but we had enjoyed our brief visit. All we needed to do now was see how the dogs had coped with their stay in kennels and if that had gone well, we could look to have longer holidays without worrying about them.

And so, there is no doubt, we will be back.