Fallout from Japan tsunami

We have been feeling the fallout from the Japanese disasters in Estepona - here is a photo I took on the beach on Monday. Horizontal rain, sheet lightning and beaches closed off, but somehow very warm weather.

Projectiles from Space Exhibition

Estepona's Palaeontology Museum presents an exhibition entitled "Projectiles from Space - Our world under bombardment". The exhibition includes genuine samples of meteorites and asteroids recovered from impact sites along with some 20 information panels in English and Spanish put together by Dr. Robert Lilljevquist, who is on hand to tell you all about the exhibits in English or Spanish.

The exhibition runs until 1 June and is open from 10 am to 2 pm and 4 pm and 6pm.

Ask your doctor about meat...

Selwo Aventura - a big waste of time and money

We went to Selwo - what an awful place - €3 to park and then a whopping 24.50€ to get in! The place is advertised as a zoo experience but the animals are secondary to the muddy old hills and rope bridges which incidentally if like me you don't want to use, you are forced to find a way through the wilderness alone. No access for disabled people and terrible signs - in fact, the map doesn't even tell you which animals are where so you end up having to chase around trying to find out where you are and what you haven't seen. You can't take in food or drink and yet we staggered starving for an hour as the lower restaurant was closed leaving us no option but to go for a 5€ baguette with bland filling, or wait until we reached the "highlight" of the top restaurant. The jeep ride was not pleasant with no accounting for safety - no safety barriers on very steep roads with sheer drops - and the lions and bears, the animals which in our opinion should be the show stoppers were down low in valleys which only one side - not our side - of the jeep can see. The restaurant at the top of the hill does not cater for vegetarians (when we went everything had meat in it) at all and charge a Euro for a bread roll and 9 or 10€ a tiny plate for everything else. The bread was also stale. Then we tried to find a drink - 2.80€ for a bottle. This is considering the 24.50 we paid to get in.
The views are spoilt by terrible building sites and construction and are nothing special.
Icing on the cake was trying to drive out only to find the evidence of paid parking is not even monitored - get out and find the button for the gate yourself! 1 out of 10 for the red panda, everything else built to rip you off. Boo!

VIPs Puerto Banus

Today I took my family to VIPs restaurant in Puerto Banus, just on the beach front near the port. They do a menu del dia for 10,95 which includes a drink and dessert. The staff are very pleasant and professional and the food is not too way out there Spanish, so I could take my parents-in law there who had never been to Spain and aren´t so used to Spanish food yet.

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