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Malaga Street Art

Grant Williams — Thu, 24 Jan 2019 21:10:43 +0000

Plenty of art on the streets of Malaga, also the local ‘council’ have painted the beach huts (mostly toilets)

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Estepona street art

Grant Williams — Tue, 11 Dec 2018 09:44:31 +0000

One very noticeable thing in Estepona is the street art, well they’re more like deliberate murals, I can only imagine the town has paid to have these done, and in fact have a look at www.andalucia.com where you’ll see a list of them all, their locations and what it’s all about.

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Estepona

Grant Williams — Tue, 11 Dec 2018 09:05:24 +0000

Parking in Estepona is at the marina, great spot, even did some more fishing. The town itself is realy nice, a long promenade lined with restaurants, cafes and bars. There’s a great older part with the usual narrow streets that lead to squares with more cafes, all very relaxing.

One very noticeable thing is the street art, well they’re more like deliberate murals, I can only imagine the town has paid to have these done, and in fact have a look at www.andalucia.com where you’ll see a list of them all, their locations and what it’s all about.

And some othere I found on the way:

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Tarifa

Grant Williams — Tue, 11 Dec 2018 08:30:56 +0000

After my city break in Cadiz I was in the need of a bit of beach time, I’d seen a place called Bolonia beach so off I went. The drive was great, nice roads that ended in a drive over a small mountain and dropping down into the village of Bolonia.

I can imagine when there’s some wind or waves this would be a surfer of kite paradise, parking is as close to being on the beach as you can get and the beach is fantastic, clean golden sand.

Just off the sand there’s a Roman archaeological site with buildings, roads and squares and the pis de resistance, an amphitheater, not quite good as Side in Turkey, but certainly a fantastic site.

On the headland is the quarry where the Romans got the stone to build their town.

After a couple of days exploring in Bolonia I moved a couple of miles along the coast to another great beach, again parking right on the beach. Spent a couple of days here, even did some fishing! There was even some beach art.

Tarifa town itself was quite busy, good place to do shopping, laundry, empty the necessary and get some water, all the above done I carried on to Estepona.

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Lagos to Sagres

Grant Williams — Mon, 03 Dec 2018 16:46:04 +0000

After having visited the top of the world: well it seemed like it driving there: I zoomed back to the coast, it was getting late so I headed for a paid for parking place in Lagos, only 3 euro but I knew there’d be space. Parking is at a sports stadium with showers and laundry, so a good choice. Lagos itself is a great place to visit, plenty of shops, a marina and public spaces. It’s quite a touristy town, which means plenty of restaurants etc and boat trips taking you along the coast, and everywhere you look around here there’s a stork sitting on a nest!

After a night of r&r I pushed on further West along the coast, aiming for Sagres, not sure what I was going to find but I’d read it was an area worth visiting, turns out it was everything I’d hoped for and more.

Rugged coastline, sandy beaches, surfers everywhere, a lighthouse and an old fort, so plenty to see and do, in fact I spent 2 nights here, really I just wanted to see another sunset like this one.

An old library van from …. Wales

Click here for a video of the blow-hole

This weird looking thing is a kind of spiral building sitting on top of a blow-hole that leads down to the sea, and every time a wave comes the sound is amplified, you can go and stand on the grate above the hole, it was a calm day when I visited and I can only imagine what it’d be like on a rough day!

Look closely and you can see 2 blokes fishing from the rock face, and this must be called boot rock, or shoe island!

The difference between street art and graffiti, some idiot graffitied on this street art

A catch these fishermen are about 100ft up on top of a cliff, there were loads of them all along the coast, one slip and they would have been fish food themselves. Oh the wave, they were making rainbows as they broke.

Some fishing spots were a bit safer.

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Aviero street art

Grant Williams — Fri, 23 Nov 2018 14:56:38 +0000

There was quite a bit here, either one prolific artist or lots of them:

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