Disc Golf? In Spain?

So we have some avid disc golfers in our crew, and they scoped out a few courses for this trip. I think we are only going to make it to one, but there were a few to choose from!

Pumping gas was an experience that required google translate today as nothing is open here as it’s Three Kings Day and that’s some sort of big deal here. Like everything is closed. The first gas station we went to had pumps open but you had to do it yourself. It wouldn’t work until you replaced the pump on the handle and it processed your credit card. Anyway, it was an experience!

We left Benalmadena early this morning, before 9am, and got gas at the first station but espressos at the second -which were made fresh in the gas station. Like they have a full espresso bar with milk frother and everything inside the gas station. I’m just amazed.  

We drove about two and a half hours today and what we saw was a lot of what you see in America. Windmill farms, solar farms, hills, etc. there were many times when I said “this looks just like Reno, or Idaho, or Salinas (there is a lot of farmland here). So essentially the landscape is very similar to places we’ve seen before. Of course the big cities are very different but we’ve been in the countryside lately. 

So to the disc golf course we went and we met up with a friend of Todd’s from high school and his wife who are vacationing in Portugal. 18 rounds of disc golf later, Todd was crowned the champion. 6 discs were lost in the water, and Karen and I got some sun sitting on park benches and waiting for the golfers to finish. 

And after those sunny hours we headed off in search of food. Oh my, this was a doosie. Todd found a place on the map that said it was open. We thought it might not be because of the holiday but we said “Let’s try it!” And then we found ourselves on pothole filled muddy dirt roads (where did this rain come from when we have had sunny skies all week???). There was a very full RV park and a completely packed restaurant parking lot. When we walked up and said table for seven, the lady laughed. Reservation only on a day like today! 

Hey, at least we got to see the Atlantic Ocean! Oh my, so we drive out and headed toward a town but everything else was closed. We found a gas station with bathrooms and just headed to Seville. 

About an hour and a half later we came into Seville and then the driving got fun! No more open freeways and 80mph speed limit. This is an example of one of the roads (and notice the tiny little sidewalk). 

Ugh, luckily we parked the car and won’t get it out for two days. Right outside our hotel is the Metropol Parasol which is a wooden structure built in 2011. It claims to be the biggest wooden structure in the world. 

We grabbed some dinner/tapas at a local place and the dinner came with lemoncello shots at the end! Happy kids!!! Most of the food was pretty mundane so only a picture of the pretty tuna was taken.

We ended the night with some gelato, a donut, another espresso, and a chocolate croissant. Isn’t that coffee pretty!?!

Only 9,400 steps for me but the golfers had 5k more