Les Mirages

Almunecar is a village between Motril and Malaga an hour south of Granada. The authenticity seems to have been stripped from the place so it's hard to know what it was like before it was made tourist-friendly.

It is hard to get used to the daily schedule differences as flexible as we try to be:

• No shops open on Saturday afternoons, all cultural attractions closed in the afternoons until 6.30pm. 
• They don't start serving food in the 'Spanish' cafés until 9pm. 
• You see Spanish families eating their tea-time snacks of ice-cream and patisseries at 7pm while we are sipping our apéritif drinks dreaming of olives and fried fish.

Les Mirages is located at the top of a cliff overlooking the Mediterranean and a water park called Aqua Tropic.



It has a an 8 metre long "infinity" pool looking over the sea and apparently there are only thirty days in the year here when the sun does not shine.

The children have been watching a show in Spanish on TV called Violetta and every now and then they will call out "what does "benga" mean?".
"Come!" we call back. But they don't, they are praying to the temple of Disney.