Spain day one -- the flight and the landing!
we had a 5:30pm flight to malaga, spain via paris. i requested the bassinett on the plane (air france) so ely would have a place to sleep. that worked out pretty well except for the poor large man who got the seat right in front of the bassinett which was hanging on the bulk head. we were on the top floor of the 747 right behind the cockpit. i kept kicking the captains seat. it was very spacious. it took ely a while to fall asleep. i think it was the excitement or maybe he just was over tired. he's typically very good on plane rides. falls asleep after we take off and sleeps most of the way. about 2-3 hours into the flight he finally fell asleep. the flight was 6 and a half hours with a 6 hour time change (forward). sadly neither jes nor i slept much on that flight. i don't typically sleep on planes and she was too worried about ely in the bassinett. we did however, all three conk out on the second flight which was 2 and a half hours. needless-to-say we arrived tired at 1pm friday spain time. we got our car, a stick shift diesel ford focus hatchback. it was spunky and had great torque. btw, diesel was about $4 a gallon. (.93euro cents per litre) $1.60 = 1 euro.
shockingly we found our resort with little trouble. it was in a town called calahonda. it was filled with condos and i suspect it's a big vacation city. the resort was really quite nice. and our condo overlooked the pool area. we went to the market and then settled in for what turned out to be a four hour group nap. we woke up at 10pm and starving. fortunately restaurants don't open for dinner until 8pm in spain so we had good timing. we made the poor choice of going to the restaurant at the resort. not bad but limited choices for dinner. there were several decent establishments down the hill from our resort.
we made it to bed by 2am. which was only 8pm our time.
it was overcast when we arrived and i worried it was going to be a bad week. i was very wrong!
waiting at the airport in france. ely sporting his new travel pj's.
ely checking out the patio furntiure on our deck.
Ikea! the first thing we saw after leaving the airport in Malaga, Spain. we felt at home.
shockingly we found our resort with little trouble. it was in a town called calahonda. it was filled with condos and i suspect it's a big vacation city. the resort was really quite nice. and our condo overlooked the pool area. we went to the market and then settled in for what turned out to be a four hour group nap. we woke up at 10pm and starving. fortunately restaurants don't open for dinner until 8pm in spain so we had good timing. we made the poor choice of going to the restaurant at the resort. not bad but limited choices for dinner. there were several decent establishments down the hill from our resort.
we made it to bed by 2am. which was only 8pm our time.
it was overcast when we arrived and i worried it was going to be a bad week. i was very wrong!
waiting at the airport in france. ely sporting his new travel pj's.
ely checking out the patio furntiure on our deck.
Ikea! the first thing we saw after leaving the airport in Malaga, Spain. we felt at home.