Costa Del Sol on Southern Coast of Spain

The Town of Conil

We’ve been planning this journey for over 4 years. We’d made most the arrangements from Mid Nov in Australia all the way till April 5th in Lucca. But from the 5th of April till our return to SLO on May 15 was open. So about a month ago I started snooping around for places to see. Well, we went to Southern Spain in the Andalucia region. We left Rome airport Friday night and flew to Malaga (home of Antonio Banderas). The next day we rented a car and drove to Conil about 2.5 hours West along the coast. I found a surf school online to get the info on the best spots and the guy was great. Mattias, from Germany, is a kite surf instructor and local guide so he set us up in a house about 60 meters from the beach. We got in some great surfing and wonderful sightseeing. In fact, Mattias invited us to join him for dinner with his friends and we had a great time. There is so much to love about this very minimally developed coastline. Rolling hills with farms, towers on the beach to identify pirates from years past, hilltop cities that are the oldest in Europe and dinner at 10-12 pm with the locals. This is also a very windy place which makes it a Mecca for windsurfing and kite surfing. Take a look at our photos at

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