Ojen – turnrightoutofportsmouth

Today was my favourite day so far since we arrived at this location. The day dawned bright, warm and sunny – perfect for a walk up into the mountains (on the trail that we found a few days ago in the rain).

We booted up, packed a drink, an apple and our wet coats and set off (via the bike shop to try to get a chain for Calv’s bike -no luck unfortunately).

It was busy up the mountain today, unlike last Thursday, because it’s a bank holiday over here. It started off quite fresh, but we gradually shed our layers as it warmed up.

There are 2 viewpoints to walk to. The first, del Cruzo, takes you off the main path on a loop (the viewpoint ‘entrance’ is shown in the main photo of this post – sloping steps, my favourite!) Continue reading “Walk to the Miradors – del Cruzo & Macho Montana. Monday 27th Feb 2017”

We knew it was going to rain today and had already decided to visit La Canada, a Centro Commercial near to Marbella. Not that we’re really into shopping – we just wanted to have a look really.

The centre is situated at the point where the A7 and AP7 converge – you head onto the road towards Ojen and come straight to the entrance. It’s very impressive, and new, and very much aimed at the British. Having said that amongst the well known British High Street names there are plenty of Spanish stores. It is a bit expensive though in some stores.

I did buy a top in H&M and we got a few bits in the, small but perfectly formed, M&S Food ‘Hall’ (Hall is pushing it a bit…)

Calv did have a couple of complaints though. The workmanship (this is a recurring theme) and the fact that the female cleaner had no qualms about mopping around the urinals whilst they were in use!

We’d also decided to go on a little drive up into the mountains culminating, hopefully, in a visit to Mijas Pueblo, one of the whitewashed villages in the hills above the resorts.

So we headed off towards Ojen on what turned out to be a really good road. We stopped at a viewpoint above Ojen itself, which afforded rather lovely views, despite the murky conditions.

Continue reading “Thursday 23rd- a rainy day on the Costa del Sol”