Today we went to Malaga, again.... and saw the largest, at this time, passenger liner in the world, the Royal Caribbeans MS Allure of the Seas... An almighty huge ship!! No photos can really make it look as big as it is... Worth checking out here...
There were a lot of ships in the harbour today, the MS Allure of the Seas, the MSC Divinia, Quote from web site... 'Timeless elegance in modern comfort inspired by the divine award winning actress Sophia Loren.... brings you all the elegance and glamour of the golden age...
We couldn't get close to MSC Divinia, she was behind a locked gate!
The Dutch ship below was big enough, although still dwarfed by the Allure... you can imagine people coming into port, "hey, look how big my ship is!" Then the Allure pulled herself up and all aboard played the top trump card!! LOL The staff aboard the Allure were about the same as the actual passengers aboard the Zuiderdam...
We had gray skies, and lots of rain, my feet were soaked through, mainly because I was wearing open sandal walking shoe type things! And a waterproof coat! And also 64% humidity so it was warm too...
We got the bus to Malaga today, the usual route, we were with the workers and lots of them, took about an hour to get there, then the walk along to the port, we stopped for a quick snack, I had a split bocadillo with tomato and olive oil, Franco had a mixto, that's the bocadillo again but closed with ham and cheese, fresh orange, very... made my face turn inside out and my eyes cross, but was really good, actually felt like it was doing me good! and coffee... that was €2.50 each, yep, a whole five euros for both of us! Muy bueno!
After the tour of the ships, is there a name for ship spotters? Like train spotters?? LOL... anyway, coffee at a port bar then the walk back to the bus station, got tickets for the bus back to Alhaurín... Not the usual bus forsure, but I am so glad! A totally different route and through a couple of small towns I had never ever been through before, and so close really, didn't even know they were there! Took a turn by the most haunted house in Spain, Cortijo Jurado... and came back around from there... via Cártama! Great!
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Marian
Wow that's a leviathan if I ever saw one! Lol about your ship spotters. In OXON we live close to the Brize Norton air base and see loads of interesting planes fly over head, and, if we see something unusual, like a Lancaster bomber, we just pop on the plane anorak's web site and find out all about it. It's amazing, they begin spotting it the minute there's any activity around it and then do a sort of tag team monitoring. They end up knowing the flight trajectory, it's registration numbers, which air crew member said what over which air channel, that it's flown from here to there, for a respray of a wing tip. Amazing.
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