Tapas Bars

Moving on from my last post about the La Cobana Bar, I want to talk briefly about the great tapas bars that you can find in and around the towns and villages of the Costa del Sol.

There are hundreds of tapas bars dotted all through the local towns and pueblos of teh Costa del Sol and the choice of these great snacks is amazing, as are the variation in prices. If you stay around the tourist areas along the coast, you're likely to get charged a lot more for the same thing you could get in a bar 100 metres up the road.

Best is if you leave the coast behind for a few hours and travel inland a little way. There are several small pueblos close to the coastal towns where you'll get true Spanish prices for your tapas and drinks. Your cost for a night out eating tapas and having a few drinks could easily be cut in half or more by getting out of the tourist areas.

In fact, there is a place called los Pacos which is nestled in jjust behind the big and very toursity town of Fuengirola. Some of teh bars there still charge pueblo prices and only this year we could get a beer and a tapa for one euro fifty! You'd pay around three euros for the same thing less than a mile down the road!

It just shows, it pays to know your areas when you go abroad, especially to Spain's Costa del Sol which is taking a hit this year on tourism becaus the euro is so strong against the pound and other currencies and most of their holidaymakers come traditionally from the UK. Well mnot this summer mate! Not unless those greedy tourist traps lower their prices - they'll be advertising their sky high rip off prices to the looky-looky men who don't spend anything!

Costa Del Sol