Salobrena - March 26th

Angie and I headed to Malaga the following morning to pick up Tracy and Sarah Bellavance at the airport. Tracy delivered both Anika and Vasco and shares our thirst for travel. The drive along the coast is amazing, with tiered orchards of olive, almond, orange and fig trees (I am surely skipping a few others) nestled into the hills and the towns of Almunecar, Nerja, and Torrox (among others) lining the coast. Malaga is a port town and also a gateway to the entire area (Costa del Sol and Costa Tropical). We plan to explore it later in our trip as it also has many significant remants of the time when the region was under Moorish Rule and some remnants from the Roman Period.

Upon returning home, we dropped off Tracy and Sarah to get situated and picked up Vasco and Sofia. Sofia is our nanny and we could not have found someone more ideal! She is from Rioja, speaks perfect English and is very eager to help all of us improve our Spanish. I know already, that in addition to nanny, she will serve as translator, negotiator, travel guide, culinary advisor and friend. She was waiting for us with her father in Salobrena when we arrived and they quickly met us at our home and her father Miguel brought us some great wines from Rioja.

We went to the Salobrena market and picked up fish, shrimp, lamb, vegetables, bread, olives....all super fresh and headed home for a shandy.

We headed back to Salobrena for sunset and to see the castle.