On the Beach

As I mentioned a couple posts back, we planned three nights on the Costa del Sol as a kind of rest stop, though we managed not to get a lot of rest during our stay. Our route took us through the millionaires’ playground of Marbella, where we decided we could just about afford lunch. The tapas were good, and the paella was not very interesting. (The area seems to specialize in not-very-interesting paella, though eventually we found some good stuff.)

Marbella features the idle rich of a...