Malaga to Villaricos

Slight travel time miscalculation resulted in getting up at 3am to drive to airport and having 2 hours for early morning caffeine injection instead of one. But we coped; flight called, onto bus, off bus onto aircraft and sat... and sat .... (and had about 40 mins zzz) then told that one of crew hadn’t turned up so another one on way.... then told that whilst we were sitting waiting they had found a bit of a fault with plane. It would get down to Malaga OK but captain not keen on coming back with the weather that was forecast so, we would hang on a bit then get on a bus and go to other plane being fired up, luggage transferred too, and then off we go. Plan A didn’t quite work though so we had to go back into terminal and hang around Gates 1 and 2 (always wondered where they were!) with the advantage there was a loo ... yesssss!... and then eventually get onto new plane and arrived in Malaga WITH luggage, only 2 hours late.
Thanks to slight overspend on car hire we had no queue to pick that up, and after a quick sort out, change walking boots for sandals etc and strip of several layers of fleece we set off east towards Almeria. They still haven’t finished the autopista all the way along the coast but there is more than there was. Once we got clear of Malaga we stopped and tucked into some lunch (well it was about 3pm by now!) but then headed on and got a good long way before a nostalgic cortado at the service area at Campohermoso near Nijar. Then onwards and upwards to find the supermercado in Mojacar and stock up on dinner and brekkers, ring Ivan to arrange to meet up and then to Villaricos, unpack car and veg out – but OMG we can’t go to bed – it is the final of Masterchef! So we stayed up till 11 for that and made up for it next morning.