Of course that doesn’t mean there aren’t many more beautiful beaches. But the Tarifa beach is the most beautiful one I’ve ever seen. (Click on photo to enlarge!)

The most wonderful restaurant owner in Marbella!
The most wonderful restaurant owner in Marbella!
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Spain: Andalusia Coast line
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This is the second addition of our trip to Marbella Spain. Hope you enjoyed it, and if so … let me know. 🙂
This is my last report on Lake Constance in autumn. We were expecting a warm golden October, like the October’s in the last three or four years. We were planning to travel from Lake Constance to the North Sea and eventually Holland, but unfortunately, October was freezing this year. And no matter how high we turned up the heat in our caravan, it couldn’t fight the cold, clammy, morning, fog, which seeped in under the door, through the roof windows and into our clothes, blankets and under our skin.
One morning after cupping our hot coffee, Hubby and I compared who has the coldest hands. Not even our coffee cups could warm them up. We decided to pack up and go back home. And we aren’t sorry we did..
But still … we spent wonderful weeks hiking through abundant fields, overflowing with ripe grapes, plums, apples, pears, and even late strawberries. Sweet sour apple aroma filled the air, teasing our taste buds, till we gave in (like Adam and Eve) and took bites from the wide assortment, as distinctive in flavors as the colors on a painter’s pallet.
Harvest festivities took place in every village. Tractors pulling trains of small wagons, piled high with fruit, slowed down the commuter traffic to a pleasant crawl, allowing children to jump out of their parent’s cars and gaily walk alongside the farmers’ tractors by the fields.
People looked so healthy: ruddy red cheeks, windblown hair, laughing eyes. Folks stopped to sniff at the fruit cupped in their hands and they took deep breaths of crisp, fresh, red and orange October air.
“Enjoy a woman and a glass of wine
without any misgivin’.
But if your’re not a drinker nor a kisser,
Your life just ain’t worth livin’. “
You’l find quotes ( that you’ve never heard of before), everywhere: on houses, street signs, park benches, hidden in restaurant gardens, engraved on store fronts, printed in menus … even on sewage canal covers. I picked just a few for you to see… and of course translated them for you.
Every smartphone has a translator ab, so you can still enjoy — no matter what language you speak.
Don’t need a boat… if I can read a quote! 🙂
“There are many more old wine drinkers than old doctors.”
“You want to talk about me and my family? First go back home, and tell me what you see. Only if you find there is nothing wrong at all Then go ahead, gossip … go tell ‘em all.”
Marriage is like going to a restaurant. You always think you have made the best choice, till you see what your neighbor got.
If you don’t do something for your health every day, then one day you will be sacrificing a lot of time for your health.
At an entrance to a cafe’ with delicious pastry. …. The more you weigh, the harder it is to kidnap you! Protect yourself! Eat cake!
That’s all for today folks! Let me know if you enjoyed yourselves.
The advantage, or maybe it’s a disadvantage − however way you want to see it − but we change our travel destinations as often as the billowing winds change directions on a mountain lake.
“Okay,” I said to Hubby. Let’s just drive to our most favorite place in the world, and we’ll decide from day-to-day what our next stop shall be.
“You know, that’s the best idea you’ve had all week.” he said, and gave me a big happy kiss.
I have written about Lake Constance, in Germany, before. Where else can you breakfast in Germany, take lunch in Austria, drink an afternoon coffee in Liechtenstein and enjoy a glass of wine in the evening on the Swiss side of the lake? This is only possible in the four-country-region- Bodensee… or known as Lake Constance. It’s like a second home to us, and only a good hour and a half drive from our house.
We just love our trusty camp ground, and this time we even got a space that allows a narrow view of the lake between tall trees.
But before I say anything more, I have to admit — one of the reasons we drove to a camp site so close to home was because we were exhausted. Yes, exhausted from all the zillions of little pre-vacation things that had to be done. Packing our caravan has become a marathon of carrying laundry baskets full of clothes, medications, blankets, pillows, food, cell phones, laptops, Kindle, chargers and storing them all away in the caravan, so that nothing, not even a bra strap is caught hanging out between the hinges of the cabinet doors. Maybe we are getting old, and maybe the need to take everything in question with us has increased with age. Gee, I can remember going on vacation with just a little handbag. Ha ha − that was about a million years ago.
Nevertheless, the vacation started off with a bang… or better said with a click. I was waiting patiently in the car, eating one gum drop after the other, while Herbert, my hubby, was in a gas station’s men’s room. The car radio was playing some cool music, and not till after the fourth or eighth song − or maybe it was the empty gum drop bag, but I suddenly sat up in alert. What is taking my dear Hubby so long? I got out of the car and marched to the gas station, when suddenly my husband approached me.
“So how long were you planning on waiting before checking up on me?” He asked a bit disgruntled.
“What took so long?” I said, while suppressing a sweet sour taste of gum drops coming up my throat.
“The lock broke on the bathroom door, and I banged and knocked and yelled on the door till someone finally let me out!”
Hubby suddenly began to laugh, saying the people at the gas station and even some customers, who urgently needed to use the bathroom, were in a tizzy trying to get the lock open.
“Now that would have made a good vacation shot!” I exclaimed. We both laughed, and then I knew − when stupid things like that strike one as funny it’s a sure sign that vacation time has started.
That evening we ate in a lovely restaurant by the sea. But even better than the food, were all the little signs, stuck between roses and weeds, with wonderful wise quotes written upon them. I took some snapshots of them, and am more than happy to translate the quotes for you. So in this first of the latest travel report series: this is quote no. 1.
The practical thing about vacation is that it not only renews your strength to start
working again, but it makes you so damn broke, that it really gives you no other
choice in the matter.PS….The header photo I just took this evening.
I swear! No photo shop!PPS…I will be writing soon again. Hope to see around, and I would love for you to leave a comment. Thank you!
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Writing, Poetry & Creativity | Angela T Carr, Dublin, Ireland
A daily selection of the best content published on WordPress, collected for you by humans who love to read.
Love, life and literature - all the way
www.lexjahnel.de - deutsche Rechtsanwälte in Spanien
When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race. ~H.G. Wells
Echoes of Life, Love and Laughter
Tales & Travel Tips from a Rambling Renegade
World Travel
SHEER HUBRIS PRESS
Livin' the Henchlife
Latest work releases, preview cover designs and reviews of other authors
A fine WordPress.com site
Handcrafted - Hand-Painted - Unique -AHHHH!
Life is Messy. Send Coffee and Posh.
the literary asylum
self-publishing tips for authors