Marbella, Espana

 

Marbella, Spain was more beautiful than I could have ever imagined making it the perfect place to spend Spring Break.  Southern Spain reminded me a great deal of Costa Rica with the beautiful combination of clear blue water and tree covered mountains.  The town of Marbella was very charming with a lot of character, i.e. the alarmingly high number of stray cats that seemed to appear out of thin air....or dumpsters.

The week was filled with spending time at the nude beach (also alarming at first), laying by the resort's pool, taking the bus into town for flea markets, and of course tapas!

 

I realize each time I travel that there are many things I take for granted in Paris, one being the ease of transportation.  Paying 9 euro to get to the airport or having to wait any longer than three minutes for the metro seems trivial after spending a week outside of the city.  Each time we needed to go into town from the resort, it usually included a 20 minute wait for the bus and then another 45 minutes on the bus.  Let's just say we were a little impatient with Marbella's transportation system at times.  But who can really complain when the view from the bus looks like this:

 

This trip left me very curious about what the rest of Spain is like.  Unfortunately, there will not be time to explore any more Spanish cities but I did recently discover that next Spring, my brother Kyle will be studying abroad in Barcelona!  He may be the single hier to "Same Girls, New Continent", that is if he is up to the challenge....

More to come on my trip to Marbella tomorrow!  Bonne weekend tout le monde!

Bisous bisous,

Mary