Today we left Granada and headed to Seville with an afternoon stop at the beach at Marbella. Of course, the chance to spend an afternoon swimming in the Mediterranean was too good to pass up.
The kids woke up nice and early this morning giving us a good start to the day. Have I mentioned that it’s been over a year since we’ve used an alarm clock 🙂
It took a little over 90 minutes to reach Marbella which took us through some beautiful countryside.
Thousands of olive groves
Sergio driving to Marbella
Olive groves and mountains
Once at Marbella we found the first accessible beach with parking and nearby restaurants for lunch. As we didn’t bring a beach towel to save space we paid an exorbitant price for one, not knowing they were included in chair rentals – oh well.
We also had lunch at a beach side restaurant that charged 1.90 euros per piece of bread – I did my best to argue with their highway robbery in Spanish but failed. In case anyone I’d wondering what that looks like, it is Sergio gesturing wildly with much eye rolling followed by uttering loudly of broken high school Spanish phrases. In their defence the swordfish was very good.
Sherrie and Isabella at lunch
We then hired a couple of beach chairs and ordered some drinks – more highway robbery occurred at the bar. The chairs, at 30 euros for two, were worth it.
The kids and even the adults then spent the next four hours playing in the surf, swimming, building sand castles, and relaxing. Sherrie even saw a ray!
Sherrie, Lucas, and Isabella relaxing
Aurelia playing in the sand
Sherrie relaxing
Lucas and Bella playing in the surf
The beach
Lucas, Isabella, and Aurelia (behind Lucas) building a sand castle
Aurelia and Isabella playing in the surf
Lucas and Aurelia playing in the surf
Lucas getting sand from the ocean for the sand castle
The kids playing with an elephant statue on the way to the car
We then drove the two hours to Seville where we promptly got lost searching for the hotel and ordered room service which included the best burger Sergio has had in over a year.
Tomorrow, Seville!
