Costa del Sol – what have we done? The seminal tourist shoreline, made the laughing stock of the middle classes: row upon on row of concrete carbuncles and – despite what the property developers will tell you, still home in the summer months to legions of lager-swilling, England shirt-wearing, grotesquely tattooed and sunburnt Brits... WAG-tastic and ridiculously over-priced Puerto Banus... the hidden gem that is Marbella Old Town - true Spain, honest Spain...
Frigliana hillside. Credit: James Estill
If you can live without the beaches, then head for the hills beyond Frigliana would be my advice.
Costa de la Luz – my favourite of the Costas: the comforting but chaotic blend of European, Arabic and African cultures in Cadiz; the hippy haven and surf shacks of Tarifa; and the beaches, oh, the beaches – mile upon mile of wild and windswept white sand cloaking the coastline at Zahara de los Atunes and beyond.
Benidorm, Costa Blanca
So there you have it – the Spanish Costas. Done.
I came, I saw. And ultimately I left, underwhelmed. I mean no malice toward Spain, its people or its tourists, but in my capacity as a researcher, rather than a reveller, I felt it lacked something. It lacked everything.
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