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Playa Alicate Marbella (Marbella Town rental apartment) Sleeps up to: 6 (2 bedrooms) Rates: £483 to £626 per week Nearest beach: Playa Alicarte 50 meter Will consider: Long term lets (over 1 month) Short-breaks (4 days or fewer) Corporate bookings Changeover day: Flexible Access: Car not necessary Family friendly? Suitable for children of all ages Suitable for the elderly or infirm Notes: May take pets – please enquire Smokers welcome Self-catering Marbella Town Rentals – Property Description Fantastic Marbella Town rental apartment for rent, 50 meter from the beach. 5 km east for Marbella, The Marbella Town rental apartment is built in a quiet and family friendly area. It has 2 bed- & 2 bathrooms (1 with bath tub/1 with shower). A kitchen with dishwasher and oven. Nice modern functional living and exit to a 25 m2 terrace, both areas with beautiful view over the Mediterranean Sea. The Marbella Town rental apartment is situated in a closed/secured complex and includes 3 swimming pools (1 pool for children) Supermarket, restaurants, hairdresser in walking distance. Approx. 15 km to Puerto Banus. Europe’s greatest golf area with over 10 golf courses within a distance of 10 km. The Costa del Sol region Malaga has a lively centre with plenty of restaurants, cafes and shops, whilst all along the coastline are stunning sandy beaches where you can sunbathe and enjoy the mild, sunny weather. Costa del Sol an ideal destination for holiday makers throughout summer and winter months. The coastline here is sheltered by hills and high mountains allowing for a kind of micro climate. The sun is at its hottest during the summer months, with temperatures rarely falling below 30°C (86°F). Whereas the typically very mild winters, boast daily highs of around 20°C (64°F). At night the low rarely falls below 10°C.

Marbella / Marbella Town area Supermarket, restaurants, hairdresser in walking distance. Approx. 15 km to Puerto Banus. Europe’s greatest golf area with over 10 golf courses within a distance of 10 km. Local leisure small shops, restaurants, pubs, café, internet café Local activities golf, surfing, swimming, tennis, walking Airport: Malaga: 40 km Railway: Fuengirola: 20 km Ferry: Marbella: 5 km Directions to Playa de Alicate, Block A, 2. Floor nr. 2 (beach side) Urb. Las Chapas, km 188 29600 Marbella On leaving the airport, stay in the right hand lane and go straight on following signs for Cadiz N340. When you see the large San Miguel beer factory on your right, keep to the right and join the N340 motorway towards Algeciras. After about 3 km, take the slip road on the right leading up to the E-15/A-7 motorway to Cadiz.( just after BMW garage). Shortly after passing junction km217 (sign posted Mijas/Benalmadena) the road splits into two carriageways. Take the right-hand fork to Fuengirola where you will join the A7 motorway towards Marbella. Continue on this road for another 20 km passing El Faro, Calahonda, Las Chapas and Elviria . Take the exit sign posted for El Rosario and then go left at the first roundabout taking you over the main road. Go straight on at the next roundabout and then first right, following this road down towards the beach. Approximately 200m before the beach you will see some terracotta colored Marbella Town rental apartments on your right and a small turning with a palm tree island. Take this turning and then immediately left into the underground parking. Park in space 30 and take the lift to the second floor. The Marbella Town rental apartment is number 2 on your right. Have a nice trip.

Activities near Marbella Sports: Tennis in town Watersports Waterpark Golf less than 15 mins walk Fishing Great for: Walking holidays Beach or lakeside relaxation A winter sun break Good nightlife Marbella Town Rental Property Facilities Luxuries: Internet access, DVD player, Sea view General: Central heating, Air conditioning, TV, CD player, Pool / Snooker table, Satellite TV, Wi-fi available Standard: Kettle, Toaster, Iron, Hair dryer Utilities: Clothes dryer, Dishwasher, Cooker, Microwave, Fridge, Freezer, Washing machine Rooms: Bedrooms (2), Bathrooms (2), Shower rooms (2), Separate WCs (2) Furniture: Sofabeds (2), Single beds (2), Double beds (1), Cots (1), Dining seating for 6, Lounge seating for 6, Sleeps maximum of 6 Other: Linen and towels provided.

Outdoors: Balcony / Terrace, Shared outdoor pool (unheated), Shared garden, BBQ, Childrens pool Access: Secure parking Marbella Town Rental Accommodation – Details Indoors Marbella Town Rental Property Facilities General: beach towels provided, linen provided, towels provided Outside: terrace, terrace furniture, sunbeds, private parking, garage, lift, communal pool Inside: cd player, dvd player, radio, tv, internet access, air conditioning, heating, washing machine, iron, ironing board, tumble dryer Kitchen: dishwasher, freezer, fridge, coffee machine, grill, oven, kettle, toaster Bathroom: shower, bath tub, hair dryer Beds: 1 double bed, 2 single beds , 2 sofa beds Further details outdoors: Distances Airport: 40 km Beach: 50 metre Golf: 1 km Shops: 400 meter Views Sea views Pool views Further details Booking: phone +34 951 310 462 or +34 666 04 05 90. or E-mail via link “click here to email the owner”. Payment: 20% by reservation. 80% 2 weeks before arrival. Deposit: Euro. Cleaning: Euro 85. By cancellation less than 2 weeks before arrival the reservation fee will not be returned. Contemplate a Marbella Town vacation on the Costa del Sol whre there is a great choice of Marbella Town rentals of several styles.

Or better known as „Baile Atha Cliath”. Still don’t know which city I’m talking about?

I give you another clue: This city has the oldest university of Ireland. Famous writers were students there.
Like Oscar Wilde and Bram Stokers for example.
The library of the university counts 4.5 million books, the biggest collection in Ireland.

Yes, I’m talking about Dublin, the capital of the Republic of Ireland, the hometown of famous musicians like Bono from U2, Phil Lynott (Thin Lizzy) or Sinead O’Connor.
From TV and cinema we know Gabriel Byrne, Jonathan Rhys Myers and Colin Farrell.

Place of birth of the probably most famous beer in the world: Guinness. Sir Arthur Guinness started to brew this beer in 1759.
The Brazen Head in the city centre is the oldest Pub, as far as I know, the oldest in Ireland. From 1198 until 1661 it was a post station, and then changed into a pub.

If you prefer to read a book instead of drinking strong, dark beer all day, have a visit at the National Library of Ireland, the biggest of his kind in Ireland.

2007 and 2009, Dublin was elected the friendliest city in Europe. More than 50% of the inhabitants are younger than 25. This explains also the exiting nightlife, especially at the weekends.

Back to culture: Worth a visit is “Dublin Castle”, the half penny bridge (from 1816 till 1918 you had to pay one penny and a half toll to cross the bridge), the spire(a large, pin-like monument of 390 feet high, located where Nelson’s Pillar stood) and Leinster House (where the Irish Parliament is located since 1922). In 1922 Ireland became independent to England, the Irish Constitution was drafted at the “Shelbourne Hotel”, the finest and oldest hotel in Dublin, in room 112.

Now to something different: Sports. Did you know that the 4th biggest stadium of Europe is in Dublin? I didn’t. The “Croke Park” can seat 82.500 people and hosts sports like Gaelic football, soccer, rugby and hurling (reminds me of hockey).

I will surely return to Dublin, the friendliest city with the best beer.

Cape Town, certainly one of the most beautiful cities in the world. I would like to say the most beautiful but I know you won’t agree with me unless you are firstly a Cape Townian or secondly a South African.

Cape Town is a trilingual city although you would find that some people can speak up to seven or eight official South African languages. This beautiful country has got eleven official languages. (We certainly have the most inclusive constitution. That is not always a good thing but I’m not going to discuss that here.)

The three main languages that we speak in Cape Town are Afrikaans, English and Xhosa. Afrikaans is by far the dominant language in Cape Town but people tend to speak more English when they outside there homes. So we could say that Afrikaans is most people’s home language with English second.

The reason for the three languages is the different groupings that Cape Town is made up of. To talk about that I’ve got to refer to the race issue and a little bit of history. I know people, especially is South Africa just don’t want to talk about the race issue because of our history.

Cape Town is made up of three main groups; “Coloureds, Whites and Blacks”.  The “black” group is known as Xhosas. This group has always been part of South Africa and Africa as a continent. At the moment they are the minority because most Xhosas live in the Eastern Cape. Cape Town is in the Western Cape. You would find that a lot of them understands Afrikaans and can even speak it but because of apartheid refuses to speak it and sometimes even pretends not to know it at all. During the apartheid years all groups were forced to speak and be were taught in Afrikaans. Their mother tongue were ignored.

The middle group are just called whites. This group is descends from Europe (The Netherlands, Germany, France, and England). According to history the first “whites” landed in South Africa and specifically Cape Town in 1652 under the leadership of Jan Van Riebeeck. They were Dutch and the other countries followed later.

With this different groups came Malaysians as their slaves.

Imagine the melting pot of languages that were brought to South Africa. People could not understand each other and a new language had to somehow come out of all of this. The Malaysians, as slaves, were the first people to speak Afrikaans. A big chunk of Afrikaans was taken from Dutch.  The “whites” would later claim Afrikaans as their language.

People start to sexually “mix”, in secret of course. “Blacks” and “whites”; Malaysians and “blacks”; Malaysians and “whites”; out of this mixing was born the group that people referred to as “coloureds”.

The “coloureds” and “whites” adopted Afrikaans as their main language.  Population wise the “coloured” group became the dominant group in the Western and Northern Cape provinces. (This is the group that the politicians target in the Western Cape and specifically in Cape Town for obvious reasons. The political parties are at the moment electioneering for the elections in April this year and the “coloured” group, not surprising, the targeted voter.)

Apartheid or segregation for those who does not know what it is brought separate suburbs with it. People in countries like the United States of America would know what I’m talking about.

English is the common language or the in-betwener but some people made it their home language. English became the business language and some people speak it because it makes them feel “superior”. (I personally think this is because of the legacy of apartheid. The so-called black grouping detested Afrikaans and some people, the “coloureds” –to be precise- did not want to associate themselves with Afrikaans. ) Yet Afrikaans is still the dominant language in Cape Town.

Cape Town, a western cultured city, is infused with Malaysian and Xhosa culture. This makes it an interesting city to live in. The people are friendly, warm and kind. The rest of South Africa calls Cape Town the Sleeping City because we are never in a hurry. Business people can be frustrated by our pace. Holidaymakers love Cape Town.

With its beautiful beaches, mountains, vineyards and friendly people you cant help to love this place. What can be miserable is the winter rains and from time to time when the southeaster is blowing us away.

Cape Town is nestled at the foot of Africa, where the Indian and Atlantic oceans unite. In the winter you would stay away from the beaches on the Atlantic side because the water is very cold, but some of our most beautiful beaches are on that side. I’m talking about Camps Bay, Blaauwberg and Clifton; with Clifton and Llandudno as the playgrounds of the rich.

The warmer waters are on the east side, the Indian ocean side. Four of South Africa‘s biggest cities are on that side. They are Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, East London and Durban (also one of the top holiday cities).

The mother city, as Cape Town is referred to, is waiting on you and with the Soccer World Cup 2010 at hand, why not book now?

Reserve now while our currency is weak, it will definitely safe you money.

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