An Unplanned diversion!

We knew we were heading south from Benidorm, but didn’t know exactly where, turns out we were heading to VillaMartin. Not somewhere we had ever heard of or ever expected to visit, but we are so glad we did.

As I shared my story about my cocktail in Benidorm, one of my school friends messaged me to say she lived only an hour away and  would we like to visit? How would I say no to that! We could stay in their street - in fact they offered us their spare bedroom, but we always stay in Agy when she’s with us, so the street it was. 

Vickki and I knew each from school, and a little bit of frantic mental arithmetic( possible due to the most wonderful teacher....) we worked out it was at least 35 years since we last saw each other, so (we both confessed later) we were a bit nervous about how it would go, and of course Darren and Ian had never met!

Well, we needn’t have worried! What a blast we had. They have the most beautiful home they have also recently renovated, and live in a place that is a real mixture of Spanish and British cultures. The pace is Spanish, the people mainly British. We talked about anything and everything, had far too many drinks and delicious meals in the local Plaza and stayed longer than planned.

Ian made a new friend (well we both did, but you know how much Ian loves dogs). Remarkably he wasn’t very allergic to Pip (a working cocker) either, so if Vickki hadn’t come back from work when she did, there might have been a new family member joining our tour. Mind you Vickki was keen on Agy, so we had to keep a close eye on her too!

If you are looking for a holiday place and you have access to a  hire car, I’d recommend stopping here, you could eat out in a different restaurant every evening for a week or more, there’s a huge (and I mean huge) shopping centre just 5 minutes away (we were a little later than planned arriving, as we diverted  to check it out!) and you aren’t far from several airports with cheap flights - oh and Vickki and Darren (who is just delightful) have a lovely holiday apartment you could rent too.

(extra photo of Pip, because somehow he stole our hearts and camera attention more than anything else!)

There aren’t too many photos as we were too busy talking till the early hours, so as we headed off we knew we needed to find somewhere we could stop and catch up on sleep!   Little did we know what Espana had in store for us!