Our Recent Vacation in Costa del Sol Southern Spain

We returned on April 7, 2009 from a 12-day vacation to Costa del Sol, the Southern part of Spain. My hubby had made plans for this vacation, an RCI timeshare exchange, for a number of months. He takes care of the arrangements for all our vacations as he is quite skilled at arranging the best exchanges in super locations and gets us great deals on airline flights.

What was so funny about this trip is that we ended up staying an extra day as the return flight was booked on DL 163 departing April 6, 2009 from Malaga, Spain at 12:40pm and landing at JFK airport in New York. It so happened that when we reported to the Malaga airport check-in desk, there were probably 250 or more people already waiting in line with much baggage. This happened to be a tour group of plumbers and contractors from New York and New Jersey -- husbands and wives and/or significant others. It was like a cast call for the Sopranos TV show; I really thought that I met Joe Pesci! Honestly!!!


P.S. Upon our arrival, we were greeted by a tabby cat that hung around the Heritage Resorts. She happened to be pregnant, and I know that she will be on my mind for quite some time wondering when she delivers her litter and wanting to know if she is OK.

BTW, I'd love to share a slideshow of our vacation -- be sure to check it out and let me know what you think. There will be lots more information to blog about regarding our eventful trip! Stay tuned.

The Rain in Spain Stays Mainly in the Plain

You're probably familiar with that famous lyric, "The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain!" from My Fair Lady.

According to The Disciple and His Devil, the biography of Gabriel Pascal by his wife Valerie, it was Gabriel Pascal who introduced the famous phonetic exercises "The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain" and "In Hertford, Hereford, and Hampshire, hurricanes hardly ever happen" into Pygmalion in 1938, the first of which wound up leading to the song in My Fair Lady.

About the Author: Hungarian film star Valerie Hidvegy (Pascal), now the widow of George Delacorte, famed New York philanthropist and publisher, cut through the Iron Curtain to marry Gabriel Pascal, producer of Bernard Shaw’s films, for a life of struggle, unhappiness, and all-conquering love. Finally, Pascal’s idea to make Pygmalion into a musical became My Fair Lady, but by then he was dead. --Amazon, The Disciple and His Devil.

Why Spain? Simple. We are planning for our trip to Southern Spain in a couple of weeks. The timeshare exchanges were favorable there -- I really wanted to travel to the Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, or Ukraine -- but for some strange reason -- NONE of those destinations interested my hubby!

Friday night, we stopped at our local Border's and picked up Insight Guides Southern Spain: Costa Del Sol, Andalucia. Tonight we'll be meeting up with friends of ours who spent a couple of years in Spain, stationed there when the mister was a Navy pilot. We hope to pick up some pointers for our trip to Southern Spain. Hopefully, the rain in Spain will be staying mainly in the plain!

P.S. Incredible Coincidences -- I recently heard from a fellow lensmaster that he and his companion will also be vacationing in Southern Spain. We tried to arrange for a meet-up, but would you believe that we will 'miss' each other by 3 days? Now that is one of many incredible coincidences -- ah, chalk this one up to The World's Greatest Mysteries perhaps?