Almeria Medio Maraton (merged threads)

[ladyrunner]

Hi Folks,

It's that time of year again when we need to start planning our annual trip to Almeria for the half marathon (and possibly 10k) which takes place on Sunday 30th January 2011.

The plan so far is to fly over to Malaga on the Saturday 29th with Easyjet from London Gatwick on the 6:10am flight (Flight 8601) and return to Gatwick on Tuesday 1st Feb on the Malaga 15:15 Easyjet flight (Flight 8606). At the moment the cost of the return flight is £51.98 without any extras like baggage, extra leg room etc.

In the past we have stayed at he Tryp Indigo Hotel which is currently taking double room bookings for £37.59 per night (another bargain). We are not sure at the stage if we want to stay in this hotel again and will need to decide this when we know numbers.

Both the hotel and flights will need to be booked independently by yourself, but we will also need to hire a car to get us from Malaga to Almeria and back. This will be booked by myself and Sweder and once you have decided that you are coming you will need to pay upfront for your seat in the car. The cost being £45 per person, but this figure will be checked upon collecting the car and any extra paid can go into a drink fund for our primera cerveza o una botella de vino.

Once in Almeria we generally meet up with Antonio and his spainsh running friends for a pre-race pasta meal, then again we meet up for a post-race celebration. There is also time to do other things, like a dip the sea, shopping, drinking coffee on the beach, climb a mountain, running in the desert - people are free to decide their own schedule for the weekend or make plans with the others depending on what they want, but it is not an organised weekend with a timetable devised by myself and Ash. We are both going along to enjoy ourselves too, hopefully relax and spend some time practising our bad Spanish with Antonio.

Anyone interested at this stage please make it known on this thread.

Nos vemos amigos,
Julie
    Almeria 2010
    What a wonderful restaurant this was!! Please please can we go again??