Over 15,000,000,000 Served

 

Fuengirola will be our home for the next three weeks. We will use it as a base to visit as much of Southern Spain as we feel like seeing. It has great rail and bus connections, making it easy to visit Malaga, Seville, Granada, Rhonda and Cordoba and still sleep in the same bed every night.  

 

 

 

The area has been occupied for well over 2000 years.   The remains of a Phoenician settlement (1550 BC-300 BC) were found on the grounds of a 10^th Century Moorish castle that overlooks Fuengirola.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Once the highest point in Fuengirola,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

it is now dwarfed by the many high rise apartments that extend along almost 7 kilometres of beautiful Mediterranean beaches. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now home to 75,000 inhabitants of which 25% are from Great Britain Ireland and Northern European countries, all drawn here by the moderate climate and lower cost of living.

 

 

Fuengirola sits at the bottom of the Costa del Sol. The Costa del Sol is a tourist playground that extends 70 kilometres north, all the way up to Malaga, attracting over 15,000,000,000 visitors every year.  Make that 15,000,000,003.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our apartment is about 100 metres off the beach and there are over 30 restaurants within a one block radius.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Everything from a couple of British styled pubs to a Punjabi restaurant so close that on occasion, we returned home to an apartment smelling of curry. Why there are even a few Spanish restaurants serving paella and parillada.  We are not in any danger of starving.

 

 

 

The city centre is small for a city of this size but only a 25 minute train ride from Malaga and several high end resorts with huge shopping malls to keep the tourists busy when they are not enjoying the beaches and restaurants. 

 

 

 

 

 

The town has filled their plazas and roundabouts with some pretty unique art. So much, I lost count of the statues and fountains that we have passed in our travels around town.