One of our Snowbird day trips while in Costa del Sol, Spain, took us to a relaxing green space just off the free train ride to Montemar. The Battery Park was originally used in WW1 and WW2, but has been transformed into a space for the people with lots of fountains and fanciful statues of […]
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During our snowbird travels in Spain we enjoyed a quirky “burning of the lizard” event, which occurs as a symbolic end to the week long “Carnival” events. The fancy dressed cardboard lizard float is taken in a 2km parade to the beach in Benalmadena where it is burned on the beach by the local firefighters, […]
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We thoroughly enjoyed the many fantastic stone sculptures and 3D reliefs, located in the outer edge of an old rock quarry in Osuna, Spain, during this years Snowbird excursion to the inland mountain parts of Costa del sol. The now abandoned rock quarry was used by the Iberians before Roman times during the 5th centry […]
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The Costa del Sol – Spanish town of Benalmadena is host to four un-related sites connected to Science and Religion. The golden steeple of the Buddhist “Stupa” is visible over 7 km away from at our apartment where we are snowbirds in Fuengirola, Spain. Across the road is an amazing, immersive Butterfly Park where you […]
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