Torrox-Costa

Torrox-Costa is a money-making tourist trap of holiday homes and restaurants. The main area has a nice promenade and all you expect from a seafront aimed at the tourists. Well almost everything, when we were there the waves were crashing on the promenade. As a result part of it was taped off and the rain was falling, so it was missing the sun! This town claims to have the best climate in Europe. On the last morning my run took me along the promenade in glorious sunshine, the sea had receded, the tape had been removed and the sand swept up, the only sign of the storm tides was the broken steps to the beach. The campsite owners asked if I saw the dolphins while out, I didn’t!. The campsite was perched on a small hill outside the main area overlooking the beach. I’ll not mention the N340 that was between us and the beach. The site charged for electricity by the kilowatt hour and we had no idea how much it would cost, but it was the pretty standard €4 a day that we used. We visited another of the “pretty towns” from the pretty town website . Frigliana this time. The old town was a maze of Moorish style houses based along narrow cobbled streets. If you visit, don’t try to push your bike through the streets! We had a very enjoyable few hours being lost in the maze. On the way to Frigliana we stopped off at Torrox (the town), this was also very nice, the main square was set to bars and restaurants and being up in the hills, the square had stunning views. The ride to these two towns was rather nice climbing through the hills, with not many other road users.

On our last full day we cycled to Nerja, a horrid ride on the N340 but the tourist bit of the town was worth a visit, small pedestrian streets, lots of tourist shops selling leather goods, ornaments and all those things you never knew needed, and what is more the sun came out as we sat drinking beer in a square. After the town we went to look at the Victorian-era aqueduct that even to this day feeds water to the sugar factory of the town. An impressive engineering sight and well worth getting a few snaps of it.