This morning, we did a little more research online about the buses and how to get around. After breakfast and tidying up, we walked down the hill to the bullring, where we found the bus stops we needed.
One day next week, we’ll take the M240 bus from Estepona to La Linea where we can walk across the border to Gibraltar. The bus stops right at the bullring down the hill so it’s very convenient. In a little over an hour, after numerous stops, we should be in La Linea.
We discovered that if we had stayed on the L79 bus a bit longer when we were coming here, we could have got off at the bullring and saved about 30 minutes walking in the rain. At the time we didn’t know exactly where we were going and we wanted to go to a restaurant anyway. C’est la vie.
When we leave here, we can catch the L79 in the other direction at the bullring and get to the Estepona bus station on the east side of town. From there we should be able to get a bus directly to Malaga Airport and then a taxi a few minutes to our airport hotel. Travel in Spain isn’t that difficult.
Our next task was to find La Escollera seafood restaurant that is recommended in Lonely Planet. We found it just on the east side of the marina and checked the menu. It seems to be a good choice so we’ll go there sometime next week.
It was a beautiful warm day so we walked along the Paseo Maritimo, the walkway along the beach, as far as the old town centre of Estepona. We found the tourist information office and got a map with all the local sights on it. There aren’t that many that we’re interested in. The old town is quite nice with lots of little pedestrian streets and restaurants. However, we’ve just spent 2 1/2 weeks in other old towns so we don’t really need to see every street here. We did go into the little museum, mainly because it was free and had a washroom. There were quite a few artefacts from Roman times but really nothing we hadn’t seen before. We had also stopped along one street where there’s the excavated foundation of a Roman mausoleum. However, the old town is really just kind of a nice place to be sometimes. There are bakeries everywhere so at one we bought a meat empanada and some chocolate pastries to share.
After walking back along the seaside, we stopped for a few groceries and then came home. Another storm is blowing in from the west this afternoon. Hopefully it won’t last too long into the day tomorrow.
One day next week, we’ll take the M240 bus from Estepona to La Linea where we can walk across the border to Gibraltar. The bus stops right at the bullring down the hill so it’s very convenient. In a little over an hour, after numerous stops, we should be in La Linea.
We discovered that if we had stayed on the L79 bus a bit longer when we were coming here, we could have got off at the bullring and saved about 30 minutes walking in the rain. At the time we didn’t know exactly where we were going and we wanted to go to a restaurant anyway. C’est la vie.
When we leave here, we can catch the L79 in the other direction at the bullring and get to the Estepona bus station on the east side of town. From there we should be able to get a bus directly to Malaga Airport and then a taxi a few minutes to our airport hotel. Travel in Spain isn’t that difficult.
Our next task was to find La Escollera seafood restaurant that is recommended in Lonely Planet. We found it just on the east side of the marina and checked the menu. It seems to be a good choice so we’ll go there sometime next week.
It was a beautiful warm day so we walked along the Paseo Maritimo, the walkway along the beach, as far as the old town centre of Estepona. We found the tourist information office and got a map with all the local sights on it. There aren’t that many that we’re interested in. The old town is quite nice with lots of little pedestrian streets and restaurants. However, we’ve just spent 2 1/2 weeks in other old towns so we don’t really need to see every street here. We did go into the little museum, mainly because it was free and had a washroom. There were quite a few artefacts from Roman times but really nothing we hadn’t seen before. We had also stopped along one street where there’s the excavated foundation of a Roman mausoleum. However, the old town is really just kind of a nice place to be sometimes. There are bakeries everywhere so at one we bought a meat empanada and some chocolate pastries to share.
After walking back along the seaside, we stopped for a few groceries and then came home. Another storm is blowing in from the west this afternoon. Hopefully it won’t last too long into the day tomorrow.
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