Marbella and Nerja

We spent two nights in Marbella and this is our third day in Nerja.   Marbella was OK. Nerja is better.

The coastal area near Marbella is flat and the beaches are long.  The beach walk, known as the paseo extends for 26 kilometres along the beach. On our full day in town, we walked from Marbella to Puerto Banus along the paseo.  16K round trip.  

Our hotel (Hotel Lima) was nice and in a good location... a block from the beach and one block from the edge of the old town. We had a nice big room with a balcony and good parking for the bike on the street below our room.  The old town area are interesting. There is a selection of stores and restaurants, mainly aimed at the tourists. We found prices a bit higher here than in the less touristy inland towns but still reasonably priced.

Marbella was a fun place to visit but not a location we would want to stay for too long.  We had a hard time leaving though.   Not because we wanted to stay but because I lost the key to disc lock on the motorcycle!   Normally I keep all the keys together but when we went to leave the the disc lock key was not with the others.  After spending a half and hours searching and not find the key we spoke to people at the hotel desk and they called a locksmith for us. 

The locksmith arrived in 10 minutes and 10 minutes later we were set to go.  The locksmith was very nice. He cut the lock off with a disc grinder and charged us 15E  (about $22C).  As we were loading the bike and getting ready to leave a women approached us and told us that the day before she had found a key on the ground by the bike.   When she described it we know it was the disc lock key.  We showed her the lock cut in half and had a good laugh about it!

Hotel Lima, Marbella

Nerja is located about 100K up the coast from Marbella, on the other side of Malaga.  The topography here is a little different.  There is no coastal plain. The hills extend right to the coast.  Instead of a long beach, there are several small coves. 

Nerja has a much different feel than Marbella.  To us Marbella felt upscale. Nerja feels more  bohemian.  We could see ourselves staying here longer.

One of the cove beaches in Nerja

Breakfast sandwich

Coffee with complimentary muffin 

I think that we might stay one more night here before continuing up the coast towards Valencia.  It is cloudy to day and there was a little drizzle while we out for a walk this morning.