Hello hags. I'm back.
Holiday was something of a game of two halves. First four days were idyllic, lazing about in the sun, eating various jamons, and trying to leave the house as little as possible, partly because the road up to it was a pant-soiling 7km of hairpin bends and vertiginous drops. In a large hire car, on the wrong side of the road.
Then it started to rain. So we went sightseeing, to caves, scenic villages, Malaga, etc. Then on Friday morning we woke up to torrential rain, thunder, gales, and water flooding into our terrace. How very trying, we thought. So decided we might as well drive to Cordoba, 175km away. Said torrential rain continued the whole of the way there, and we passed totally flooded fields, with abandoned cars. Got utterly lost in Cordoba's maze of tiny one-way streets, and scraped the car on a corner trying to escape. Managed to park, and trudged miles in the rain to see the Mezquita, which thankfully was utterly gobsmacking.
Then two-hour drive back.
Now discover that the bits we were driving through, cursing how the rain was spoiling our very expensive holiday, were full of burst rivers, washed-away bridges, etc, and we were rather lucky not to be deaded, like 10 people were.
Feel like I need another holiday to relax.