For the past week my family and I have been holidaying in a resort near Malaga in Spain called Puerto de la Duquesa. We haven't been abroad on holiday for a long time, as we normally prefer staying in England and travelling down south somewhere for a few weeks.
However this year we decided we would actually quite like to go somewhere hotter, and maybe even tan for the first time in 4 years
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The resort itself was lovely - it was the perfect blend between being busy but also not so busy that you couldn't hear yourself speak. We timed it just right with the weather, as the weeks before Spain was having a heatwave which meant that it would have been dangerously hot.
We also made the good decision to book a room in a privately owned complex, which meant we didn't have to fight people for sunbeds because there was barely anyone there.
To give ourselves a break from just being at the hotel by the pool all the time we also went to a waterpark on the third day (after getting v lost and nearly ending up on a boat to Africa).
If we wanted to we could've gone and visited a nearby castle and gone to Gibraltar for the day, which is great for people who (unlike my family) don't like holidays where you just lounge on a sunbed all day.
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| The two photos above show the view from near the pool at our hotel, being near the sea meant there was always a lovely breeze to cool us off. |
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| There were loads more restaurants and bars along the beach (which was too pebbly for us to spend a day there), and walking right along it meant that you ended up in another little town just like the one we stayed in. |
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| I tried to get a cool, artsy photo of all the bars and restaurants lit up at night by the mariner because I thought it would look pretty, but it kind of failed. |
