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july 2009 the THEME

Summer in Marbella 12 Top Marbella Beach Clubs 26 Shopping at Laguna Village 34

The News

Films 18 Latest DVD Releases 20 CD Releases 22 Book Releases 24

the people

Penélope Cruz 14 Florencio Cruz 31 Joseph Corre 40

The trend

Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4 Spyder 46 The Latest Gadgets 50 Marketing on the Web 52 How to love the Planet this summer 54

the chic

An amazing Beach Front home 56 Art News 66 Benetton Beachwear 68

THE SPA

Summer Beauty Tips 84 Beauty News 86 Bursting the Food Myth Bubble 88 Health News 90 Research: Latest Scientific Discoveries 92

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96 Living on board a luxury yacht 100 Vanity Nightclub 102 Enterprise 112 Renting your property

the Traveller

115 The 2009 Open Championship at Turnberry 118 Running with the bulls in Pamplona’s San Fermines 126 The Hotel Puente Romano 128 Fuengirola, new hotspot

THE GOURMET

137 Ocean Club 139 Bubbles 140 Food News 142 Chef’s Profile: Saito Taka and Ryu Oikawa from Sushi des Artistes 144 Wine: Lynne Sherriff 146 Listings – Directory

The BLOG

159 Pet News 160 What’s On in July 162 Your Stars for the Month Ahead

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As temperatures soar, so does our circulation, catering for the busy holiday period. This summer there are more copies of magazine than ever before in the bedrooms and suites of the areas top hotels, when they are at their fullest, in addition to an extensive distribution all along the coast.

Following the belief that the primary purpose of a magazine is to entertain, we have striven to produce an issue so diverse and in depth that no matter one’s age, sex or nationality, there are certain to be many items of interest to fulfill this objective on an individual level.

On the personalities front, fresh from her Oscar triumph, discover why Penélope Cruz has problems with the Spanish press and how she has become one of Spain’s most famous international exports. Joseph Corre, the son of Malcolm McClaren and Vivienne Westwood, recalls how being made to “feel like a perve” when buying undies for his girlfriend led him to identify a niche in the market and to found Agent Provocateur. Florencio Cruz, the charismatic saxophonist from Nikki Beach, tells us about his life and his career.

Corresponding to the season, we bring you the lowdown on top beach clubs, where sun worshippers will be soaking it up and party goers strutting their stuff all summer long, and beach front shopping par excellence at Laguna Village.

We also visit San Fermín and the annual running with the bulls spectacle this month in Pamplona. More locally, find out why Fuengirola is rapidly becoming recognised as a fun town following its recent transformation.

Settle into the magnificent Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4 Spyder for a throat-searing full throttle burn-out in Lanzarote (where a hapless journalist actually took one over the cliff side at the recent press test drive – and survived to tell the tale!) and step aboard a super yacht for a taste of life on the high seas with all the fittings of a luxury home.

To complement this, there’s a full quota of elegant lifestyle content that encompasses culture, décor, fashion, health & beauty, business, leisure, dining out and what’s on, among many other regular sections. So don’t let your fuses overload in the heat. Find somewhere cool and relax with your monthly read.

As for me, I’m off for a long cold one!

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Las temperaturas suben y también sube la tirada de la revista , para satisfacer la demanda de la temporada estival. Este verano, hay más copias que nunca en las habitaciones y suites de los mejores hoteles, ya que es temporada alta. También distribuiremos más copias a lo largo de la Costa.

Nosotros pensamos que la razón de ser de una revista es la de entretener a nuestros lectores y hemos trabajado mucho para confeccionar una edición llena de material interesante para todas las edades y todos los gustos.

Hablamos sobre muchos famosos, tales como Penélope Cruz, criticada por la prensa española y una de las actrices españolas con más éxito a nivel mundial.

El hijo de Malcolm McClaren y Vivienne Westwood, Joseph Corre, recuerda cómo, al comprar ropa interior para su novia, siempre se sentía como un mirón, y cómo esto le inspiró a fundar su empresa, Agent Provocateur.

Florencio Cruz, el saxofonista carismático de Nikki Beach, nos habla sobre su vida y su carrera.

Como es debido durante el verano, os ofrecemos un reportaje sobre los mejores clubs de playa, donde los amantes del sol y los que no dejan de festejar, se encontrarán a la orilla del mar. También vamos de compras a Laguna Village, visitamos los San Fermines y corremos con los toros en Pamplona. Más cerca de casa, descubrimos por qué Fuengirola se ha transformado en uno de los pueblos más divertidos de la Costa.

Conduce como el viento en el magnífico Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4 Spyder hasta Lanzarote (donde un periodista cayó desde un precipicio y vivió para contar la anécdota). También te invitamos a subir a bordo de un yate de lujo para saber cómo es vivir por todo lo alto en el mar.

También hay muchísimo sobre cultura, decoración, moda, salud y belleza, y también sobre los negocios, el ocio, cenar fuera y todo lo más interesante para hacer en este mes. Pero no te sobrecalientes al sol. Búscate un lugar fresquito y tranquilito para leer tu copia de este mes. ¡Ya es hora de refrescarme con una copita!

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rom Nikki Beach’s White Party through three scintillating months of Full Moon nights at Puro Beach and Champagne Parties at Ocean Club, the Marbella Season is legendary.

As the tempo soars with the temperature, the resort moves to a different rhythm. Clocks are not watched too fastidiously and the collar and tie becomes obsolete as business gets done in shirt sleeves over a leisurely al fresco lunch. Peoplewatching becomes the seasonal sport and one of the best arenas to do so is Orange Square in the Old Town, the city’s beating heart.

Marbella in summer has it all – a place where you can swim, dine and shop in the same location (check out this month’s article on Laguna Village); play golf at more than 40 courses followed by a sensual spa treatment and a healthy lunch (the sumptuous Villa Padierna, highlighted this month, ticks all those boxes and more); or sip a sundowner in front of a parade of super-yachts at Puerto Banús (of which, read more in this month’s Yacht Living feature).

Starlit dining becomes de rigeur, as restaurant tables emigrate to outdoor terraces and, with Marbella’s eclectic choice, the culinary world really is your oyster. Talking of which, this season Marbella has a new celebrity host in its midst – Major James Hewitt, whose stylish Polo House restaurant and nightspot on the Golden Mile is just one of the many places to indulge in stargazing this summer.

After dark, Marbella’s sophisticated club scene will get you grooving into the wee small hours: Dreamers, Olivia Valère, Bubbles, (one of our featured restaurants) in Banús, a three-in-one venue with chill-out cocktail lounge and Tibu nightclub; or Suite del Mar at the Puente Romano which, as you’ll read this month, celebrates 30 years of Marbella ‘seasons’ this summer. And, beyond Marbella’s landmark La Concha mountain, there’s another world to be discovered – lush valleys, dramatic rock formations, freshwater lakes and whitewashed villages where time stands still.

Through blue sky days and moonlit nights, life is as sweet as the oranges you can pluck straight from the trees.

This year, Marbella Season’s fame is set to spread across the world airwaves via its own anthem – Marbella, Marbella, a celebration of the resort city’s manifold attractions that is destined to become THE Sound of Summer 2009. Musician Dario Poli was inspired to compose the catchy tune after seeing a negative portrayal of his adored Marbella in a CNN TV documentary last year. The song was his way of redressing the balance, in the belief that, “If you do not fight for what you have, you do not deserve to have it”. English lyrics were added with singer Alan De Ward, the CD was recorded at David Mairs’ Fuengirola studio and a Spanish version has been released by Cuban singer Yanela Brooks. Listen out for it on radio – it’s set to be this summer’s hottest dance tune. This month, we celebrate the magic of Marbella in the words of its own anthem. n

SALUTE TO THE SEASON

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Extract from MARBELLA, MARBELLA (English version) Marbella town, I love to be there with you, Fancy cars, expensive limousines Ladies, in designer dresses, Suntanned guys, Armani jeans,

Champagne flows, Señoritas singing Songs of love, in perfect harmony, It was the night I fell in love, Marbella´s where I long to be Marbella, Marbella, this beautiful town that I adore, Marbella, Marbella, fiestas, guitarras de amor, Marbella, Marbella, the mountains, the Mediterranean sea The sun is always shining, can´t live without you, This love affair will last forever.

Marbella, te quiero ever more.

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The Artistic Odyssey of I t is ironic that Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz, despite being the only two Spanish actors that can lay claim to an Oscar, are so unpopular with the Spanish press as a whole. Touted as arrogant ‘sell-outs’ to the bright lights of Hollywood, it seems they are victims of ‘tall poppy syndrome’…anything other than that would fail to explain the reaction of otherwise respected members of the media.

Then again there is the example set by Antonio Banderas, who forged the path later trodden by Cruz and Bardem. Throughout his lengthy career, Banderas has maintained the loyalty of the press and Spanish theatregoers, who are astounded by his open, sincere nature. In the summers when he was wont to vacation in Marbella, he would meet the press, opening the doors of his villa and allowing photographic access under a bargain which ensured privacy for him and his family for the rest of the season. Images abound of a weather-beaten Antonio, hair a mess, wrinkles proudly displayed, helping his wife along in her attempts to communicate in Spanish. Somehow, Banderas has learned the trick of pleasing the fans, media and critics all at once, a skill Bardem and Cruz have yet to master. If, that is, they are interested in doing so. With Cruz going tight-lipped when the subject of her relationship with Bardem is mentioned, and the latter causing quite a stir for calling the Spanish “stupid” following his

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Oscar win for No Country for Old Men, little hope of reconciliation seems possible.

The sometimes aloof Penélope is, nevertheless, highly praised by those she has worked with. Directors in particular are smitten by the sultry chica from Alcobendas. It is said that Woody Allen was so taken by her, he began stuttering at a preliminary meeting with Cruz over her role in Vicky Cristina, Barcelona. Cruz has also had enviable success with men, reportedly igniting a flame in many co-stars, and her relationships with artists Nacho Cano (the famed musician from 1980s pop sensation Mecano) and Tom Cruise were as long-lasting as they were subjects of intense media scrutiny.

Those who most reveal the humane side of Penélope Cruz are those who have known her for many years: her family, constantly by her side; her best friends, actors Salma Hayek and Goya Toledo, who have remained loyal for many years; and above all, Pedro Almodóvar, whose openness often gives us delightful insights into Penélope Cruz that the actress would rather keep to herself. Speaking of Cruz’s role as an altruistic nun in the Oscar-winning film, All About My Mother, he said, “I read in a newspaper about a bunch of nuns who worked with transvestites and prostitutes and drug addicts, trying to help them create a new life. The nuns were incredibly brave because they would get into arguments with the clients of these women. I saw all these characteristics in Penélope. I wanted a mixture of generosity and innocence, with a little insensitivity and craziness. The important thing was that she must be very emotional and Penélope has that emotional bank.”

When Cruz speaks of Almodóvar, the affection and admiration are equal. She describes him as one of her best friends, someone she loves hanging out with and going to restaurants with to just “talk, talk, talk”. Yet at work, the friendship is put on the back burner and what Almodóvar says goes. She describes a day on the set during the filming of Volver: “The other actors and I would arrive on set in a lot of fear every morning, but our mission was that Pedro go home happy at the end of the day. We would hide in a corner and have conversations like, ‘How scared are you today?’ ‘Terrified!’ ‘Me too!’ But in front of him, we would pretend to be very secure. Every day was so challenging but it was one step at a time and, all through it, there was that mission: he must go home happy”. Penélope makes no bones about identifying Almodovar as her favourite Director. “I’m obsessed with him,” she admits, and if other actors have referred to the boy from Manchego as highly demanding, Penélope is delighted by his expectations. “With Pedro,

we rehearse films first for three months. Thank God for that – what other Director gives you that?” she asks.

Almodovar sets the bar high and Cruz is happy to rise to the occasion. “I don’t know how she does it, how she demonstrates her tremendous emotional capacity,” says Almodóvar, adding, “One minute she’s screaming and then immediately she starts crying like a child – all in one scene!”

Penélope’s cool relationship with the press is, perhaps, understandable when you understand where she’s coming from. She is so pretty, it is all too easy to get caught up in the web of gossip about her personal life or what perfume she wears. Cruz is, in essence, a really hard worker, something she highlighted when she won the Oscar for her role in Vicky Cristina, Barcelona. In her acceptance speech, she said a night like that was a far-off dream for a working class girl from Alcobendas but later, in her many interviews with the press, she admitted that she had worked for many years for the honour. Hers has been a roller coaster of a career that HAS involved many years of training, including nine years of study to be a classical ballerina at the Conservatorio Nacional and three years of Spanish ballet with renowned dancer, Ángela Garrido.

The acting bug bit her at the age of 15, when she beat 300 other girls at an audition, a feat which landed her many roles in Spanish TV shows and music videos.

Penélope knew she was meant for something greater, though her ambition led her to accept a small, unchallenging role in French soap, Softly from Paris. It wasn’t until Bigas Luna’s groundbreaking film, Jamón Jamón, a satire of typically Spanish icons and customs, that the world sat up and took notice.

Penélope’s mysterious beauty and innocence were the ingredients that would lead to important roles such as Almodóvar’s Live Flesh, the Oscar winning film Belle Époque and Alejandro Amenabar’s surreal thriller, Open Your Eyes. Without a doubt, she owes much of her current acclaim to Almodóvar, who gave her the kind of roles most actors would kill for: roles like Raimunda in Volver, which demanded that she resurrect the glamour and intensity of Italian housewives from the 1950s, so beautifully played by vixens such as Sofia Loren. The tremendous demands Almodóvar places on his actors bore fruit, leading to sombre, eloquent performances by Cruz in films such as Elegy, in which she plays a young student who enamours an older university professor.

Unlike actors who are too cool to admit their hunger for an Oscar, Cruz openly told the press that she cried for 20 minutes upon receiving the golden statue. “I could not look at it – is it for real, or one of those things that my friends gave me or something?” She admitted to sleeping with the Oscar propped up on her pillow and being shocked to wake up and find out it was still there.

Penélope is excited about what her Oscar means, not only to her but to Hispanic actors as a whole, and is proud to be part of a new wave. “In the last few years there has been a lot more space for us actors who don’t

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have English as their first language – at least for characters who are supposed to have an accent. You know, at least, please give us those!” she begs. Her next role will be in Nine, Rob Marshall’s remake of the classic Fellini film, 8 ½, alongside Sofia Loren and Marion Cotillard, also actors with English as a second language. “So many of us have accents”, Cruz says gleefully, “and that’s the way it’s supposed to be. But maybe 10 years ago it would have been a full American cast.”

In between her film roles, Penélope has always taken an active role in charity organisations. She founded the Sabera Foundation alongside her ex, Nacho Cano, to raise money for the sick and homeless in Calcutta. She volunteered for two months in Uganda and spent time working alongside Mother Teresa in Calcutta, who gave her an interesting

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Use your fame and fortune to help them instead.”

The process of reaching the top has not been without its share of tribulations. Cruz admits to having suffered two breakdowns owing to stress, one of which followed her trip to Calcutta to film a documentary for the Sabera Foundation. “There is more pain there than you can imagine. I couldn’t even cry from what I was seeing because I had to work. So you become like a stone.

And then, once I left, everything came out.” Cruz is strangely open when she speaks about Calcutta, her love of Buddhism or her work in film… she comes across, in fact, as anything but the spoiled diva she is sometimes made out to be. One cannot help but admire her refusal to be tagged as a pretty but empty Hollywood aspirant. She has already conquered the rest of the world…when will she try and do the same with the Spanish? n essential marbella magazine

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Land of the Lost [Genre] Comedy/Adventure [Director] Brad Silberling (Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events) [Actors] Will Ferrell, Anna Friel, Danny McBride If you were born in the 1970s and you were a TV junkie then you probably hark back to one of the most incredible series of all time: Land of the Lost, the epic tale of a family trapped in the era of the dinosaurs. Brad Silberling is bringing all the magic back with his new film, which promises doses of laughter in addition to the sci-fi appeal of the series, thanks in no small measure to comic actor Will Ferrell. Ferrell plays Dr. Rick Marshall, a frustrated scientist who becomes entrapped in a time tunnel that takes him back to the pre-historic era. He is joined by researcher Holly (Anna Friel) and ‘Survivors’ fanatic Will (Danny McBride), who hopes to overcome the team’s lack of weapons, ability and intelligence and avoid ending up as lunch for a T. Rex. Their only ally is Chaka, a primate whose intelligence is superior to theirs and who, hopefully, will help them find their way back to the tunnel. If they fail, they are doomed to live out their lives in the menacing Land of the Lost.

Drag Me to Hell [Genre] Horror [Director] Sam Raimi (Spider Man) [Actors] Alison Lohman, Justin Long, Lorna Raver, Dileep Rao Christine Brown (Alison Lohman) is an ambitious banking executive in L.A., who is engaged to the enchanting Professor Clay Dalton (Justin Long). Life rolls along seamlessly until a mysterious client, the frail, elderly Mrs. Agnus (Lorna Raver) visits Christine at the bank, asking her for a delay on her mortgage payments. Christine is faced with the dilemma of choosing between her instincts (which tell her to give the old woman a helping hand) and her professional duty. She opts for the latter, not wishing to ruffle her boss’s feathers. Mrs. Agnus, angry at losing her home, puts a curse on Christine, sending her life into chaos.

Christine seeks the help of a fortune teller (Dileep Rao), who leads her on a frenetic journey to undo the curse. As the forces of evil begin to threaten her more menacingly, she must entertain the possibility of doing anything it takes to free herself from the curse.

Public Enemies [Genre] Thriller [Director] Michael Mann (The Insider) [Actors] Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, Marion Cotillard Public Enemies is the film adaptation of Bryan Burrough’s book, Public Enemies: America’s Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933–34, written for the screen, produced and directed by Michael Mann. The plot centres on John Dillinger (Johnny Depp), the legendary bank robber in the Great Depression era who became the number one target of J. Edgar Hoover. Somehow, Dillinger managed to escape successive convictions, largely through his charisma, intelligence and the faith placed in him by many, including his girlfriend, Billy (Marion Cotillard). Dillinger and his gang (which included the likes of Baby Face Nelson and Alvin Karpis) were accepted in an odd way by American society at the time, their antics oozing bravado and humour. But J. Edgar Hoover decided to use the gangster to turn the then Bureau of Investigation into the institution now known as the F.B.I., sending his number one agent Melvin Purvis (Christian Bale) to entrap the gangster. Yet Dillinger and his gang were always one step ahead of Purvis, with whom they engaged in many shootouts and chases through Florida, Chicago and Indiana. John Dillinger went down in history as being somewhat of a noble villain, a Robin Hood-style character who chose to pursue justice in his very personal understanding of the word.

How to Lose Friends and Alienate People [Genre]Comedy [Director] Robert B. Weide [Actors] Kirsten Dunst, Simon Pegg, Jeff Bridges

‘There’s a world you will never experience, parties you will never enjoy, inhabited by people you will never know… and one man who will do anything to get in’. So announces the trailer to what is bound to be one of the comedies of the summer: How to Lose Friends and Alienate People. English journalist Sidney Young heads the indie magazine, the Post Modern Review, where he pokes fun at wannabee celebs, obsessed actors and silly trends, revealing his mixed feelings of repulsion and obsession when it comes to fame and money. When he is offered a job at the conservative Sharps magazine in New York, it comes as a bit of a shock, yet Sidney thinks it’s the key to a more successful, prestigious career, and he accepts. His honest opinions and loud mouth, however, make him somewhat of a fish out of water. Nevertheless, he manages to become the number one confidante of movie star Sophie Maes (Megan Fox) and win the heart of his beautiful colleague, Alison Olsen (Kirsten Dunst). As temptations pour in and the pressure to conform increases, Sidney has to make a decision: will he go with the flow or take the path he feels he was always meant to: that of turning society on its head?

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Appaloosa [Genre] Western [Director] Ed Harris [Actors] Viggo Mortensen, Ed Harris, Renée Zellweger, Jeremy Irons Magnificent actor Ed Harris brings us a remake of the classic Western, Appaloosa, about two hired guns arriving in a small village to restore order, much of which has been ripped to bits by local gangster Randall Bragg (Jeremy Irons), and his group of thugs. Bragg has the locals shaking in their boots with the violent, wilful end he puts to anyone who crosses him, but little does he know that the two newcomers to the village, Virgil Cole (Ed Harris) and his sidekick Everett Hitch (Viggo Mortensen), are much faster hands than he is, and are capable of more merciless violence when their buttons are pushed or when justice is threatened. Into the picture steps young lass, Allison French, who arrives in the village with not a cent in her purse and a devastating loneliness. Virgil takes her in, thanking his lucky stars because, finally, he has found a woman who is “pretty and takes a bath every day”. Bragg and his mercenaries are not about to leave town with their tails between their legs, kidnapping Allison as a way to assert their supremacy in the village of Appaloosa. Virgil, hell-bent on recovering his lady love and showing Bragg who’s boss, opens himself up to personal and professional disappointment when he discovers that Allison is not as wholesome a damsel as she would have him believe. As the lines of morality are blurred and passions collide, Virgil must decide whether, in the end, Appaloosa is worth fighting for.

Deception [Genre] Thriller[Director] Marcel Langenegger [Actors] Hugh Jackman, Ewan McGregor, Michelle Williams ‘Are you free tonight?’ is a pretty simple question, but the way Jonathan McQuarry (Ewan McGregor) responds to it could change his life forever. Jonathan is just another auditor working in the cut-throat world of finances in Manhattan, where ‘all work and no play’ is the order of the day. His destiny changes through a chance meeting with corporate lawyer Wyatt Bose (Hugh Jackman), who introduces him to a world he never knew existed: one where high class executives play decadent games in an effort to experience the semblance of a personal life. Wyatt introduces Jonathan to ‘The List’, a high class sex club accessible by only the crème de la crème. In this world of ‘intimacy without complexity’, he meets a mysterious woman he knows only as ‘S’, who reveals the hidden world of crime and corruption behind the sophisticated, seemingly harmless atmosphere of ‘The List’.

Bedtime Stories [Genre] Comedy [Director] Adam Shankman [Actors] Adam Sandler, Keri Russell, Guy Pearce, Russell Brand, Courteney Cox Skeeter Bronson (Adam Sandler) is an affable janitor at a hotel once owned by his father but sold to greedy magnate, Barry Nottingham (Richard Griffiths). Skeeter recalls when he was a little boy and Mr. Nottingham promised his father that, when he grew up, he would hold an executive position at the hotel.

Unfortunately, this was a false promise and Skeeter is, in fact, at the bottom of the ladder despite being well into his 30s. Things take a fantastical turn when his sister Wendy (Courteney Cox) asks him to take care of her two children while she is out of town for a job interview. Skeeter grudgingly agrees to play Dad for a while, alongside Wendy’s friend, the all-too responsible Jill (Keri Russell). One night, Skeeter plays a fateful game with his niece and nephew, inventing bedtime stories and asking them to pitch in with their ideas.

To Skeeter’s surprise, many aspects of his stories come true the next day, leading him to wonder if he can shape his own destiny through his imagination.

Adam Sandler: The Peter Pan of the 21st Century It is somehow logical that Adam Sandler should have been chosen to play Skeeter Bronson in the film Bedtime Stories, since the latter is a foray into the essence of childhood and the power of hope. Sandler is known for taking sometimes simplistic, Disney-style morality tales and turning them upside down with his oddball brand of American humour. In Rewind, he played a down-and-out executive who uses a remote control to turn back the hands of time and avoid past mistakes. In Zohan, he is an eccentric hairdresser-cum-assassin whose main weapon consists of a hairdryer. And in 50 First Dates, he delights us with his ability to blend slapstick humour with heart-fluttering romance. In nearly all his biggest hits, Sandler delights with his boyish approach to life and its vicissitudes. He tells us why he was attracted to the role of Skeeter: “Both Keri (Russell) and I are new parents so it is exciting to make the kind of film where you hear the kids laugh out loud in the screening. That gave me a real high. With most of my movies, mothers scream at me and tell me I’ve corrupted their children so it’s great to be able to make a family movie everyone is happy with!”

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MUSIC REVIEWS

Diana Krall [Quiet Nights] The title of this album, to use the oft-quoted cliché, does “exactly what it say on the tin.” What isn’t clichéd however is Krall’s versions of some timeless classics. Her covers of songs like Walk on By and Where Or When are amongst the best you’ll ever hear. Her naturally smooth vocals float over the piano and orchestrations on the tracks, sometimes soaring, sometimes sounding like a whisper but always making you want to hear every last note of the song. This is Diana Krall at her best, like Eva Cassidy she can effortlessy move you with such quiet inflections in her tone. Your masseuse will be playing this as they light the scented candles in the spa.

Gossip [Music For Men] A couple of years ago Gossip made their name with their storming indie anthem Standing In The Way of Control and for the lead singer, Beth Ditto, being a “fashion-loving fat dyke” (her own description) and loving it. Many suggested it was all just a bit of a novety. This album proves, beyond any doubt, Gossip are about to become a major rock act. Music For Men sees Ms Ditto on feisty form as she lashes out at her nemesis Katy Perry with her bouncy disco track Men In Love which challenges her rival’s gay-for-pay tune I Kissed A Girl. They create anthems like Pop Goes The World that will rock festivals for years to come as well as heart-felt and beautifully eloquent songs such as Love Long Distance that will make you weep. Ignore the hype surrounding Beth Ditto’s fat, outrageous fashion and sexuality and revel in Gossip’s masterpiece of a new album.

Green Day [21st Century Breakdown] Green Day’s impressive American Idiot album from 2004 with its conspicious caricature of ‘the President gas man’ didn’t just strike a chord with the anti-Bush feeling sweeping the planet; it came to define it. And not just in the United States: American Idiot sold 12 million copies worldwide. Five years on, 21st Century Breakdown continues where its predecessor left off. Dubya may have been run out of town, but this is not a victory party, it’s a to-do list. Green Day’s mammouth-sized punk rock flourishes with 1960s pop and rock inspiration. Last of the American Girls has the celebratory feel of Beach Boys harmonies while Restless Heart Syndrome is a nod to vintage Led Zeppelin. Three multi-millionaire punks have, weirdly, become some of the most significant commentators of modern society. That only highlights the ‘American Dream’ they spend so much time lyricising about, which is alive and stronger than ever.

It’s an album that’s as complex as the era that shaped it.

i George Prior presents the Afternoon

Show (2-6pm Monday to Friday) on Radio Central FM, 98.6 and 103.8 FM.

Jarvis Cocker [Further Complications] The almost predatory sexuality of former Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker’s songs has always been of the sly-fox variety – slinking and ironic, the seediness lessened by his humour. This time, the production is more direct, pulsing and patently forceful. The opening tracks give way to a more nuanced exploration of sex as a saving grace for the ageing singer’s fading body. It’s not the most original concept, but the dual sleaziness of lyrics and production makes it click. Angela features Cocker boasting about a girl, who’s “nearly 23” and “makes four-fifty an hour”, a wry take on the familiar dirty old-man character, the absurdity of which is pressed further by comical handclaps and a surging guitar line, which would sound more at home with the explicit sexuality of Iggy Pop than Jarvis Cocker. The result is an album bulging with a sense of decaying sexuality and a desperate greed made even grimier by the gritty production. It’s facetiously a nod to both Cocker’s seedy past and his increasingly sly personality. The disc shouldn’t be packaged in an album sleeve, it should come in a flasher mack.

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REPORT BELINDA BECKETT

BOOK REVIEWS Essential books to take to the beach

HOT SUMMER READING Fearless Fourteen by Janet Evanovich

Hapless bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is back in her 14th paperback adventure in a series that has established Evanovich as one of the most inventive contemporary writers of ‘Strong Woman’ mysteries. Ms Plum has been hunting down fugitives for her cousin Vinnie’s bail-bonds office since One For the Money, romping her way through the numbers with a host of whacky characters – not least her hipster granny and two love interests, security expert Ranger and cop Joe Morelli. Trouble brews when a cousin of Morelli’s is paroled from prison after a bank heist. As ever, complications arise, loyalties are tested, cliffhangers are resolved and donuts are eaten.

Newman: A Life by Shawn Levy No one’s perfect, not even the late Paul Newman, according to this controversial new biography by pop culture historian Shawn Levy. Contrary to his reputation as Hollywood’s most faithful husband, Levy portrays him as a womaniser who cheated on wife Joanne Woodward. He also accuses him of being a functioning acoholic, who wore a bottle opener on a chain around his neck, and hated it when people asked to see his famous blue eyes because, “There’s nothing that makes you feel more like a piece of meat. It’s like saying to a woman: ‘Open your blouse, I want to see your t**s’.” Aside from the ‘juicy bits’ which have been sensationalised in the tabloids, Newman comes across as a talented and caring individual, devastated by his son’s death from drugs and willing to use his celebrity for worthwhile causes.

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley It’s a lazy 1950s summer in the sleepy English village of Bishop’s Lacey and, up at the great house of Buckshaw, child science prodigy Flavia de Luce passes the time tinkering in the laboratory she’s inherited from her deceased mother and eccentric great uncle. When Flavia discovers a murdered stranger in the cucumber patch early one morning, she decides to leave aside her Bunsen burners to solve the crime herself, much to the chagrin of the local authorities. Bradley’s critically acclaimed debut mystery features plenty of unexpected twists and turns and loads of tasty period detail.

Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead Billed as ‘an autobiographical fourth novel’ from this talented Pulitzer Prize short-listed author, the year is 1985 and 15-year-old Benji Cooper, one of the only black students at his elite Manhattan private school, leaves the city to spend a largely unsupervised summer with his younger brother Reggie at Long Island’s Sag Harbor.

Benji’s a Smiths-loving, Dungeons & Dragons-playing nerd in a coming-of-age novel rife with references to the 1980s, from New Coke to McFadden & Whitehead’s Ain’t No Stoppin’ Us Now, chronicling those lazy, sun-soaked days sandwiched between Memorial Day and Labor Day.

A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick Described by the Washington Post as ‘a bodice ripper of a hundred thousand pearly buttons, ripped off one at a time with agonizing restraint,’ this acclaimed first novel by Goolrick is set in 1907 Wisconsin, when streetwise Catherine Land replies to a newspaper ad from wealthy 58-year-old widower, Ralph, in need of a ‘reliable wife’. Land devises a plan to benefit from his riches and his need. Her new husband discovers she’s deceived him the moment she arrives but, driven by a complex mix of emotions, marries her anyway. Catherine helps Ralph search for his estranged son but also begins to poison him with small doses of arsenic. Their story unfolds in ways neither they nor the reader expect, in a darkly nuanced psychological tale that builds to a satisfying climax.

Gone Tomorrow by Lee Child New York City, 2am, in a subway car carrying ex-Military Policeman Jack Reacher plus five other passengers. Four seem normal. The fifth (maybe) isn’t. In the next few tense seconds, Reacher will make a choice and trigger an electrifying chain of events in this gritty, gripping suspense novel. Susan Mark was the fifth passenger. She had a lonely heart, an estranged son and a big secret. Reacher, working with a WPC and a host of shadowy Feds, wants to know just how big a hole Susan Mark was in, how many lives had already been twisted before hers and what danger looms now. The 13th novel in the Jack Reacher series slams through one hairpin surprise after another in a thriller that spans three decades and gnaws at the heart of America.

Lee Child on Gone Tomorrow

“It’s not until now that I can say that one of my books is exclusively a product of the Internet age. I started surfing and found a blog hosted by a London copper and, because it was anonymous, it was uninhibited. It was just after the suicide bombings on London’s transportation system when an innocent Brazilian student had been shot to death by London police, who were under the mistaken impression that the guy had been involved. How was the mistake made? I eavesdropped while the coppers on the site were asking the same question. And I learned something interesting. Their first consensus explanation was because of ‘the list’. The Brazilian boy was showing ‘all 12 signs’. It turned out that, years earlier, Israeli counterintelligence had developed a failsafe checklist of physical and behavioural signifiers – a winter coat in July, a recent shave – that, when all present and correct, mean you are looking at a suicide bomber. So for the opening scene of Gone Tomorrow, I had Reacher sitting on a subway train in New York City, staring at a woman who is showing the signs. Reacher is ex-military law enforcement, and he knows the list forward and backward. Half of his brain is saying, ‘This can’t be’; the other half is programmed to act.”

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Once more unto the beach St Tropez or the Costa Esmeralda may have more class, and the Caribbean or the Maldives may have more crystal blue seas and golden beaches, but Marbella has a greater variety of beach bars, clubs and simple chiringuitos.

So, whether you want your day at the beach to be a stylish affair, sipping cocktails and scoffing sushi on your designer beach bed or you just want to feel the sand between your toes, San Miguel in hand as you groove to the live DJ , Marbella has it covered.

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dear friends, once more!

Buddha Beach

Giles Brown puts down his sangria, dusts the sand off his laptop and returns his sunbed to the upright position to bring you the latest from the hottest beaches

Ocean Club

Located close to Banús, Ocean Club is one of Marbella’s largest beach clubs with a huge swimming pool, restaurant, beauty salon, plus art gallery, massage and retail units. It was also the place where Ashley Cole chose to make up with pop star bride Cheryl for his alleged indiscretions. Just him, his wife, a posse of bodyguards and several thousand paparazzi trying to snap them in the VIP area. This summer, top chef Stephane will be wowing those supporting appetites with a full range of exotic combinations (see review on page 137). The crowd at Ocean Club tend to be younger, more English and more ‘up for it’ than at other beach clubs around Banús, so you have been warned…

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A Marbella institution, Victor’s has seen the good, the bad and the incredibly ugly (myself included) over the years. The first time I went there, they were playing Let’s Dance by Bowie, so we’re talking a long, long time ago.

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A personal favourite, Sonara, located just across from Selwo, is a brilliant place to wind down and chill out with a bottle of something cool in your hand. This place has the same boho atmosphere and crowd as the Terra Sana restaurants and the members of staff are incredibly friendly. Great food, frequent live music as well as guest appearances from Lick FM DJ and ‘Love God’ Russell Soden make Sonara one of quintessential Marbella beach bar experiences.

So if you’re looking for the perfect place to spend you summer, fling on your flip-flops and head down to the beach. I’ll be the guy in the green Hawaiian shirt clutching a Mojito, the mere sight of my legs in shorts inspiring awe amongst the onlookers. And don’t even get me started about my bikini line…

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SAX ALCHEMIST

Belinda Beckett meets the cool young Argentinean saxophonist providing the chilled sounds of summer at Nikki Beach

FLORENCIO CRUZ

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waying on the bar top, overlaying the DJ’s house beats with his own brand of ‘experimental funk’, Florencio Cruz is in his element. The man behind the saxophone at Nikki Beach is a 21st century Pied Piper whose music seems to possess an invisible magnetic force, pulling guests up from their seats to dance as if they had no say in the matter. Sassy as hot chilli or mellow as liquid sunshine, it’s pure ‘sax on the beach’ – but his is a musical cocktail that cannot be bottled; every note is improvised, illustrating the prodigious talent of this 29-year-old, largely self-taught saxophonist who has been wowing guests at Nikki since the cool Marbella beach club opened in 2004.

“Music is my therapy, through which I can transform my deepest emotions. I’m an alchemist,” he says. “I play intuitively from the heart, not the head, and in the moment – there’s no fixed repertoire. I might start with soft, easy sounds and build up to something more aggressive and schizophrenic. I like to shock with my music!”

One of a team of gifted musicians resident at Nikki for the season, Florencio performs every Friday to Sunday from 4-7pm, a job he first landed after a chance meeting with Nikki DJ Mario Zarate, who quickly spotted his talent. “It was my first big break,” he says.

“It’s a wonderful place to work – a dream job – though some of the beautiful girls could be a distraction,” he laughs, flashing soulful dark-lashed eyes.

But Florencio is not distracted – although he agrees that the saxophone is a “very sexy instrument.

It even has the shape and feel of a woman and for me, playing it is instinctive and almost animalistic,” he says, caressing the keys of his shiny bronze Selmer, the ‘Stradivarius’ of saxophones. Although naturally an alto sax, Florencio also plays soprano version and owns a Selmer Mark Six tenor sax, which weighs seven kilos.

It’s a challenging instrument, making big demands on players’ diaphragms, lungs and lips. “When I play a lot of harmonics I get really painful blisters,” says Florencio, who keeps fit for his bar-top sessions at Nikki by jogging, going to the gym three times a week, following a healthy Mediterranean diet and practicing sax for at least one hour a day.

Gifted since childhood, at aged nine when the family returned to Argentina from Italy, his father gave him a flute and told him that, if he mastered that, he would buy him a saxophone. Within six months, young Florencio had his instrument. Every free moment, he played, accompanying tracks by sax supremos like Charlie Parker, John Coltrane and, his favourite artist, Jan Garbarek. “In winter I’d practise at the bottom of our empty swimming pool to increase the volume of my sax, even though the neighbour’s used to complain to my parents, ‘shut that kid up’!”

Florencio studied music at Argentina’s famous La Plata Conservatory but, disliking the restriction of

having to play other people’s music, at 18 he began touring Europe. He spent four years in Ibiza, the Holy Grail of house music, playing at top clubs like Pacha, Space, Mambo and Savannah alongside iconic DJs such as Roger Sanchez and David Morales. He also worked Amsterdam’s clubs, toured in a show with German action painter Abner Preis and wrote, produced and laid down 14 tracks for an album, never published because he thought it was “too experimental”. He has since formed a quintet – Furelise, named after a work

by Beethoven, whom he admires, and influenced by Cold Play, Radiohead and Brian Eno. Their first album, Exilio, was released under an indie label this year. As a solo saxophonist, Florencio has a more ambient, chilled style. (You can listen to both on Florencio’s blog at: www.florenciocruz.com Such is the power of his music, Nikki Beach customers have offered him substantial tips to play for them at their tables. Florencio’s modesty always forces him to politely decline, although he does undertake private gigs when off-duty. And, when the season is over, he takes off for new adventures: last winter, to Dubai; this year London or, perhaps, America. But, wherever his travels take him, it’s certain that this talented yet down-to-earth young artist is destined to go far.

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“Show me a man who hates shopping and I’ll show you a man who has never shopped at Laguna Village.” Anonymous.

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n 2006, a new concept in shopping arrived on the coast which has convinced the most macho of males that it needn’t be an expensive form of torture. As a fusion of commercial centre, health hydro and leisure centre – all under one Polynesian-style thatched roof – Laguna Village has turned shopping into an activity even guys can enjoy: a holistic ‘mind-body-soul’ experience that combines elements of sport, health and hedonism in a tropical beachside setting.

Forget playing ‘hunt the parking space’ in the town centre as a prelude to trekking through a steamy concrete jungle in search of the perfect outfit. At Laguna Village, easy to find on the main coast road between Marbella and Estepona, there’s ample free parking all day and the shopping is within a frisbee’s throw of your poolside sunlounger.

Simply slip on a sarong and check it all out, without sacrificing valuable tanning time.

So blurred are the lines between commercial centre and beach that the sand only stops short of the shop doorways, while the sound of the sea provides a relaxing background symphony of water music. The Mediterranean laps below your feet in channels that bring the ocean into the heart of the village, so that it seems to be floating on water.

The company behind this ‘adventure shopping’ experience is Sauer Real Estate which gave the Costa del Sol the five-star Kempinski Resort at Estepona. Sauer has invested more than €18million in creating this retail oasis, planted with 50 types of palms and irrigated by lagoons filled with pebbles imported from Bali that shine iridescent turquoise in the water. The centrepiece is the 5,000m2

shopping arcade, modelled on Asian temple design with 20-metre high ceilings, pagodashaped roofs and interconnecting bridges that cross over meandering streams.

As well as boasting more than 20 shops, designer boutiques and restaurants, Laguna Village is home to the coast’s very own Puro Beach, billed as ‘the world’s first lifestyle sanctuary for the spiritual and cosmopolitan traveller’. Decorated in pure white with squashy rattan armchairs and decadent daybeds hung with diaphanous curtains, you can recline around the outdoor pool like a Roman Emperor or dive in and clock up a few lengths, then chill with a cocktail at the bar before lunch.

Sunbeds (on the beach or around the pool) are priced from €25 in summer and include two fluffy towels per person and a delicious welcome tray

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of fresh fruit, Voss water, Smoothy cocktail, after-sun lotion and a refreshing cold towel. While chilled music plays, you can order up a Puro massage or reflexology before repairing to the restaurant where the eclectic menu offers everything from a club sandwich to grilled lobster and champagne.

Now in its fourth summer, the launch of the 2009 ‘season’ was hosted by Puro Beach with a party and fashion show which saw guests dining, drinking and dancing into the wee small hours. For, as its sun and moon logo implies, Laguna Village is open all day and into the night, with late shopping, evening dining and live entertainment. Puro Beach gets going from 11am and grooves until two in the morning. This year, it has introduced a fine selection of cigars that can be smoked on the beautiful terrace after dinner and will host its famous Full Moon and Sunset parties through summer.

There’s lots new this year. Spring saw the opening of a branch of La Pappardella, one of Marbella’s oldest Italian restaurants, renowned for its homemade pasta and freshly-baked pizzas. There was more excitement last month when a new Terra Sana opened its doors at the Village, the perfect location for the environmentallyfriendly restaurant chain famed for its organic food, wraps, salads and smoothies, served in a hip, laid-back atmosphere. Next door is the new Carmen Tapas Bar, with a long bar counter and restaurant seating for those who want to enjoy more substantial Spanish dishes.

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The Village opens at 10am. Begin the day by taking a copy of your favourite international newspaper or magazine (from Laguna Press) to a terrace table at the Spanish Star Café. Then browse the shops before a swim: as well as top designer boutiques such as Escada, GF Ferré and Just Cavalli, women will love the fashions at Elle Morgan, which stocks brands such as Elizabeth Hurley Beach, Rock & Republic and Ugg Australia; Viva La Moda (for Jean Paul and Blacky Dress designs); and Coco Beach Australia (Decadence, Coronets & Queens).

Your man can check out guy style at Royal House (Hugo Boss, Armani Jeans, Cerutti, Valentino), view the latest set of sports wheels at the C. de Salamanca car dealership (Aston Martin, Bentley, Jaguar, Ferrari, Land Rover, Maserati, Harley Davidson) or get the low-down on ocean-going stallions at Fipa Italian Yachts. Couples who enjoy shopping à deux can check out the cool shades at Glossy Sunglasses (Prada, Chanel, Gucci, D&G, Bvlgari, Armani, Ray Ban); and feather their nests at Flamant Home Interiors, Galeria Art and newly-opened Barra–Fontaine de Provençe which sells natural stone fountains and fireplaces for indoors and out. And, to complete the all-ages appeal, Elle Morgan Kids caters for trend-setting tots and teens, with labels such as Quicksilver, Roxy, Rip Curl and Phard Babe.

If you’ve forgotten your cossie, no problem: you can buy men’s and women’s designer swimwear at The Bikini Shop (Lise Charmel, Piluca Bayarri Ibiza, Banana Moon) while Parlez Moi d’Amour offers the

best of all worlds: it’s a restaurant, chill-out lounge and shop combined, where you can both peruse a range of seductive La Perla lingerie from the newly-created garden terrace while enjoying a fresh juice or oriental fusion cuisine.

Laguna Village combines urban cool with hippy chic, satisfying the human need for health and spirituality during the day and a more vibrant party atmosphere by night, with dancing in the moonlight to the sounds of top visiting DJs. Move over Ibiza!

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LOVELY VILLA AMIDST GOLF COURSES, LAGOMAR South facing villa set within the heart of the Golf Valley of Nueva Andalucia and within walking distance to both Las Brisas and Los Naranjos golf clubs. Located directly adjacent to a green area and a pond the property was refurbished in May 09. Open plan room with lounge area and Siematic kitchen, laundry area and guest toilet.

Four bedrooms ensuite, and another two sharing a bathroom. Roof terrace/solarium. Large covered terrace that opens on to a lovely mature garden with swimming pool. Double glazed aluminium windows, marble floors and central heating.

DM2421 :: Bedrooms/ Dormitorios 4 :: Bathrooms/ Baños 3 :: Built / Construido 219 :: Plot/Parcela 1227 :: Price / Precio € 995.000

LUMINOUS AND SPACIOUS APARTMENT, NAGÜELES Within a development set in tranquil grounds, located in the well-established residential area of Nagüeles. Overlooking the lush gardens and the communal swimming pool, and consisting of an ample entrance hall with guest toilet, luminous living room, fully equipped top of the range Italian kitchen, and three bedroom suites. 2-car garage, storage, A/C, wooden floors. DM2326 :: Bedrooms/ Dormitorios 3 :: Bathrooms/ Baños 3 :: Built / Construido 215,7 :: Terrace/Terraza 23 :: Price / Precio € 790,000

WATERFRONT LUXURY, LA MORERA Immaculately presented, front line beach oasis exuding space, style and tranquillity.

Two large bedrooms suites on lower floor. Master suite on upper level highlighted by two large terraces, with outdoor Jacuzzi and built-in barbecue overlooking the beach.

Under floor heating, indoor piped music, air-ducted cooling and heating systems. 2-car garage. DM2047 :: Bedrooms/ Dormitorios 3 :: Bathrooms/ Baños 3 :: Built / Construido 458 :: Terrace/Terraza 158 :: Price / Precio € 2.850.000

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JOSEPH CORRE

This year, Agent Provocateur celebrates 15 years of reinventing lingerie as cutting-edge fashion with designs that have legitimised fetishism and inflamed the fantasies of men and women the world over. Belinda Beckett talks to co-founder Joseph Corre, an Agent Provocateur par excellence.

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n 2001, a raunchy advertisement for Agent Provocateur lingerie hit cinema screens: Kylie Minogue, straddling a bucking mechanical rodeo bull in see-through black bra, panties, stockings and suspenders. The commercial, called Proof, ended with Minogue challenging the men in the audience to stand up (the implication being that most couldn’t, as part of their anatomy was already doing so). Banned from TV, over a million people viewed it on the company’s website while an unofficial version travelling the world via email coined the phrase ‘Viral Marketing’. This year, the sequence was named Best Cinema Advert in a public vote by Digital Cinema Media, another first for the company’s controversial co-founder, Londoner Joseph Corre.

The brand continues to push the envelope of sexual innuendo – but then, from the 41-year-old son of avant-garde punk fashion designer Vivienne Westwood and former Sex Pistol’s manager Malcolm McClaren, one wouldn’t expect anything less. The antithesis of the bra-burning feminist movement of 30 years ago, since its inception in 1994 Agent Provocateur has been encouraging women to light a fire with lingerie in a different way. From the first shop

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in London’s Soho, with its pink and black boudoir-style décor and ‘Agent’ shop assistants dressed in Vivienne Westwood-designed mini-housecoats (buttoned low), fishnet stockings and fluffy pink mules, the brand has put undergarments on the global fashion map with its innovative designs, in-your-face colours and sensual fabrics. Products explore every nook and cranny of lingerie fantasy land – from peek-a-boo bras and see-through silk panties to blindfolds, nipple tassels and crystal-tipped whips, presented in signature pink boxes with black satin ribbons. Lily Allen and Christina Aguilera have worn the marque as ‘outer wear’ to pep up their performances on stage. It’s also the celebrity label of choice worn (more discreetly) by everyone from Paris Hilton to Kate Moss. And where once, nice girls bought their underwear from good old M&S, in 2000 the tables were turned when the high street chain commissioned Corre to design a lingerie range called Salon Rose, which became a bestseller.

The AP Collection includes bridal and maternity lingerie, swimwear, jewellery, accessories, fragrances, erotic books and DVDs and a vast inventory of beauty products, through Titillation lip plumper to nipple cream. With its flagrant fetishism, surely Joseph must

attract criticism that his lines exploit women by appealing to men’s darkest desires? “It’s not an issue – though I know of one customer who returned a lingerie gift saying she couldn’t wear it because she was a feminist,” says Corre. “Making yourself attractive to the opposite sex is one of the basic principles of human nature. Wearing ugly underwear because you’re a feminist just makes you a victim. But for us, it’s never been about selling products for the benefit of men. The whole brand has been about women. If anything, Agent Provocateur is a brand run by women.

Out of about 300 employees there are three men.”

Female customers are also in the majority by 60:40, except for Christmas and Valentine’s Day. Joseph’s unrepentant view is that, “A woman wearing a scrumptious pair of turquoise tulle knickers promotes in herself a sexy superhero feeling which exudes itself as a confident and positive sexuality.”

Of course, the ‘provocative gene’ runs in Joseph’s DNA. His mother Vivienne is famous for her outrageous punk and surgical fashion designs. During the ’70s, she and Malcolm McClaren had their own boutique, called SEX, on Chelsea’s Kings Road, selling rubber and leather clothing and T-Shirts emblazoned with the motif, ‘I’m not a terrorist, please don’t arrest me’. “I was their biggest fan – I was totally into it but I don’t know that it’s been an influence. Perhaps subconsciously,” says Joseph. “My original idea was to open a chain of lifestyle shops themed on sensuality, selling everything from erotic food to furniture and artwork but I couldn’t

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get the funding – no one really ‘got’ what I was trying to do, so I chose one element – lingerie.”

At the time, lingerie retail in Britain was polarised between sleazy Soho sex shops and staid corsetry floors patrolled by assistants reminiscent of Mrs Slocum from the TV series, Are You Being Served.

“Lingerie was either well-made but frumpy or cheap and tacky, the stuff women bought for hen nights at Ann Summers parties,” says Joseph. “I’ve never been one for studying market groups, which strikes me as inhuman. From personal experience buying sexy underwear for my girlfriends and being served by the kind of assistants who made you feel like a perve, I saw a gap in the market. But it wasn’t that simple. I’d come from a background working with my mum where, if you wanted 50 suits made, it wasn’t hard to find a tailor to make them. But if you just want 50 bras... and in 20 different sizes...and in a colour that isn’t black or white, that’s another story. Making underwear that looks fashionable but also pulls you in and pushes you up in the right places is a highly technical engineering process.”

Joseph opened the first shop with Serena Rees, mother of his 12-year-old daughter Cora, from whom he has since separated. From day one, the eye-

catching shop window, overt advertising campaigns and headline-grabbing events aroused a media frenzy that has never abated. Suddenly, here were collections created for the thinking woman who could be sexy and professional at the same time. With fabulous designs in some 36 sizes, from AA to F cup, AP was a godsend for women, who come in just as many shapes; ages too – Agent Provocateur’s customers are 18 to 80!

Within six years, the company had opened its first shop in America and today there are stores in 44 countries, including unlikely cities such as Istanbul and Moscow. The branch in Puerto Banús is the only store in Spain. “Our second biggest European market after the UK is Germany where we have four stores,” says Joseph. “We tend to open in countries where we get most website traffic.” Ironically, he says the more risqué items sell best in Middle Eastern countries where, it seems, there’s a lot more going on under women’s abayas than might be imagined. “In our Dubai store we’re selling more of the kind of peep-hole bras, open knickers, whips and kinkier things – they’re much more popular than in Britain. Puerto Banús is successful because it attracts a lot of tourists and Middle Eastern customers.”

Key to the company’s success are its groundbreaking

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marketing campaigns, powerfully reinforcing the brand with luscious-looking photo shoots and promotional videos exploring the steamy world of erotica on a website described by Vogue magazine as the sexiest in the world. The sensual, plot-driven scenarios feature top models – Lily Cole, Dita Von Teese, Maggie Gyllenhaal – scantily dressed as virgins, vampires, dagger-brandishing witches and other fantasy figures.

The latest lingerie and swimwear campaign, The Call of the Sirens, stars flame-haired supermodel Karen Elson and various ‘sirenettes’ writhing in a mist-wreathed forest which depicts ‘a decadent world where women are bold, fearless and liberated and men enslaved to attend their every whim’. The website, which also hosts the thriving mail order catalogue, receives an incredible 150 million hits a month. Rare for a fashion retailer, the company also runs a Twitter, Blog and online Club AP through which members (60% men) can download erotic promotional music videos to their iPod for a small charge.

The company has won many accolades, climaxing with Corre and Rees being awarded MBEs in 2007.

Serena accepted. Joseph famously declined on the grounds that it had been offered by a government whose leader (Tony Blair) he found “morally corrupt” and “involved in organised lying to the point where thousands of people have suffered death, detention and torture in Afghanistan and Iraq.” He signed the statement, ‘Joseph Corre, Knickers Forever!’

Although with firm beliefs on everything from politics to human rights which he is not afraid to voice, Corre believes actions speak louder. Last year he set up Humanade, a grant-giving, fundraising Trust which has donated money to many projects, including funding legal representation for Guantanamo Bay inmates.

“Social responsibility can be good business but it’s not about clever marketing,” he says. “Just by focusing a little bit of money in the right direction you can make things happen, and that’s amazing.”

I have one more question for Joseph. If a good chef always tries his food before serving it to his customers, shouldn’t a lingerie designer do the same? After all, why shouldn’t men know what it feels like to be strapped into a corset? As always, he has a ready answer. “We have women to do that. Agent Provocateur is all about celebrating femininity, not a quality I possess.” n

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This majestic Mediterranean home is situated within the most exclusive private estate in the Marbella area.

A secure, gated community with it’s own 36 hole golf course, clubhouse with excellent restaurant, helipad, horse riding centre, deer and boar hunting grounds. All this is completely exclusive to owners within the estate.

The villa enjoys a prized site on the estate, in an elevated position on a 9.309m2 plot with spectacular panoramic views across the Mediterranean Sea to the African continent beyond.

Bedrooms: 7

Puerto Banús Avda. de Benabola, Bloque 6, Local C 29660 Puerto Banús, Marbella, Spain Tel: (+ 34) 952 81 27 28 Mo: (+34) 607 55 50 45 e-mail: puertobanus@reluz.com

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he road straightened out through the idyllic Mount Teide National Park and I pulled out to pass a bus full of tourists heading to the top of the volcanic marvel that crowns the island of Tenerife.

Just at that second, the sun burst through the clouds, the engine hit the magic 4,000rpm watershed where everything goes nuts, and the car launched at the horizon like a wailing banshee. It was a perfect moment, an emotional, heart-rending experience that will define each and every day for anyone lucky enough to own a Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4 Spyder.

Just that one moment made the €150.000 asking price seem like a snip; well, that and the attention lavished on my steed by onlookers at every junction.

The LP560-4 may be a subtle revision of the Gallardo that was launched way back in 2004 but it still has the visual impact to stop traffic in a way that even a sleek Ferrari 430 couldn’t quite compete with.

This is the second model to emerge from the new Lamborghini that was taken over by Audi in 1997. Since then, the near-bankrupt Italian firm has become a global superpower with the neat marriage of Italian flair and passion combined with German precision and build quality.

The Gallardo is an orgy of geometric perfection, with razor sharp creases running along its length.

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by the million pound special edition Reventon: muscular, unashamedly masculine lines and a rear that somehow seems lower and wider than the outgoing Gallardo, thanks to a redesign of the rear lights that now use LED clusters.

Tighter, more compact and conservative than the overtly muscular and range-topping Murcielago, the LP560-4 looks truly ripped with this subtle injection of front-end muscle. In fact the ‘baby’ Lambo might just be the best looking supercar in the world right now, turning the perennial struggler into a sales sensation in the all-important US market.

Inside, it’s even better. The ‘Kinder Egg’ build quality of Italian supercars used to get written off as a charming quirk that came with the package. Today’s buyer is much less forgiving and Lamborghini has raised its game, with Audi’s help, to create a comfortable, well-equipped interior that could handle everyday use for years to come. The chromed switchgear is a little much, perhaps, but then this is a Lamborghini and we have to forgive the Italians for a little posturing. It is, after all, what they do best.

And it’s even sexier with the roof stowed at the touch of a button beneath that vented, aggressive rear deck. Then, the whole world can watch in wonder at the laughing maniac behind the wheel of arguably the finest car in its class, just for a second at least. Because the best thing about the foldaway soft top is that it puts that dirty, guttural V10 engine even closer to your ear, encouraging wanton acts of pure

speed that could well lead to a six month stay at the ‘Alhaurin Hilton’.

That 5.2-litre V10 comes with 552bhp (or 560PS, to make sense of the name) and takes just four seconds to blast through the 100kph mark. And, with a top speed of 324kph, it’s safe to say the Gallardo is fast enough to wreck the most well-secured hairdo. But then, it’s the character of the car that sets it apart; there are plenty of others that are just as fast, yet the Lamborghini encourages you to put your foot down each and every time.

All the driver can do is drink in the noise and grab the rather cheap-looking paddle-shift e-Gear system that is still a little jerky for some tastes, yet walks an admirable line between usability and outright speed.

There are smoother alternatives (such as Porsche’s double clutch system) but Lamborghini’s everaffable Research and Development Director, Maurizio Reggiani, insists that the feel of a real gear change is essential to the driving experience and he does have a point. Every moment with the Gallardo is a visceral joy, especially the way it takes bends.

Throw the Gallardo into a bend late and hard and it still sticks like week-old pasta to the apex, thanks to a complex four-wheel drive system that can feed 70 per cent of the power to the front wheels if the back end steps out of line; and traction control to back that up. That will save many an expensive incident if the few bankers left who can afford to splash out on such a car run out of skills half-way through a bend.

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Of course, the cabriolet shouldn’t be as good as the hard-top in corners because cutting off the roof inevitably removes some of the structural stiffness. But then, Lamborghini worked long and hard to stiffen the chassis without adding excess weight and it’s now as close to the hard-top as makes no difference. Plus, the

added thrills of wind-in-the-hair motoring, and the louder noise, more than compensate for the fractional seconds lost on the stopwatch. In this climate, it would be a crime to rule out the soft-top on the grounds of driving pleasure.

Carbon ceramic brakes haul the car down from preposterous speeds and, after some criticism of earlier cars, Lamborghini has softened the response to create a near-perfect system that works more effectively than a brick wall on a hard charge but is also soft and sympathetic around town.

Although the LP560-4 Spyder would monster most racetracks, it isn’t that kind of car. This is possibly the finest boulevard cruiser in the whole world, a stylish alternative to the Ferraris that have become a little bit naff, due to their oversupply, and a car that guarantees an emotional, heart-rending moment each and every time the road straightens out. n

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GADGETS Thermo Pan: The cooking utensil with a brain Tired of unwittingly burning fish or meat, or cooking vegetables to the point of unforgivable sogginess? If so, Thermo Pan is the ideal gadget for your kitchen. It contains a built-in thermometer in its base that lets you know when specific ingredients have reached their desired temperature. In this way, your dishes will not only taste better, they will also save energy. There are 16 different programmes, based on a selection of the most popular dishes and ingredients.

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Glamorous Xbox microphones by Lips Back in the 1980s, parents wouldn’t even dream of indulging in a game of Pacman or Space Invaders. Thankfully, technology has improved to such an extent, they are now joining their children and battling it out in a number of games on Wii, PSP or Xbox. Here’s a new gadget for the most glamorous players in the house: Swarovski crystal-studded microphones to sing into with style while you play the Xbox game, Lips. Lips can only be purchased in one store in the whole of Spain: Exotic – Delitto e Castigo, voted one of the Top 25 stores in the world by Vogue America in 2007.

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Darth Vader USB Hub This gadget is every Star Wars geek’s fantasy accessory. Watch Darth’s eyes light up and his head move from side to side, uttering his characteristic breathy phrases while he serves as a hub for four USB drives.

i www.thinkgeek.com Tuttuki Bako Poking Box Those addicted to interactive games like Tamagotchi will relish this new gadget, which allows you to get closer than ever to the on-screen action.

Tuttuki Bako, a new game created by Bandai, features a ‘poking box’ you stick your finger into to play a host of games including poking a panda, a face and a stick figure. When you grow up and the gadget stops interesting you, use it as a desk clock and recall a time when you had zero responsibility and could actually call yourself a master of games such as these.

i www.bandai.com Yuen’To Music Balloon Yuen’To is a gorgeous mini mono speaker for portable devices, offering 0.7W power and lasting for two hours. It measures a tiny 5.5x5.5cm but packs quite a punch, and comes in pink, yellow, red, blue or black. When the action runs out, just recharge it via USB.

HyperMac external battery The new Canon Rebel 500D If you’ve always wanted a camera that takes over 20 frames a second and can record video in high resolution, you’re probably already on a waiting list to purchase the Canon Rebel 500D. Special features include HD video recording capabilities of 1,920x1,080 at 20fps and 1,280x720 at 30fps. The camera is a hybrid of the 50D and 5d Mark II models, featuring the former’s magnificent sensor and the latter’s 1,080p video capture, at a far more reasonable price than its predecessors. One of the year’s Top 10 must-haves, without a doubt.

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HyperMac gives users 32 hours of continuous use on your MacBook, MacBook Pro or MacBook Air, offering the solution for those who need to work for extended periods in the great outdoors, on long flights or anywhere electricity isn’t available. Users can check the HyperMac battery level anytime with a four-stage lighted LED indicator. HyperMac battery also comes with a USB power port to charge any USB device individually or simultaneously with the MacBook.

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Clocky Runaway Alarm Clock We’ve all had fantasies about throwing our alarm clock against the wall when it disrupts a night of delicious sleep but new gadget, Clocky is so self-destructive you won’t need to resort to violence yourself. The clock, flanked by two wheels, actually flings itself off your night table when it’s time to wake up, rolling from one end of the room to the other until you get out of bed and actually stop it. You can even set it to let you snooze before jumping off the table, or programme immediate jumping once it’s time to get moving.

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aving a website and marketing your company online has become a necessity for all modern businesses. However, many companies use their website simply as a virtual shop front to list their details, missing the vast potential of this interactive medium. In order to successfully harness the power of the Internet you need to understand its key benefits and make sure you play to its strengths.

The Internet is: u Global – nearly 1.5 billion users worldwide u Interactive and Real Time – you can have direct contact with your potential customers, ask their opinion and get instant feedback u Measurable – with the right software you can see where your visitors come from, what they type in to the search engines, how long they stay on the site and what pages they look at uTargeted – only appears to people actively looking for your type of products and services u Easy to change and update

How do you make these strengths work for you?

In order to harness the global nature of the Internet, make sure you have your site in several languages and effectively appear in the search engines so people can find you, no matter where you are. Write good, interesting content which includes the keywords your visitors are typing in to help you rank better in the search engines. Be specific to target your visitors more closely – you might get less traffic but the people you do get will be more likely to become customers!

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Create an interactive and interesting website which engages your users. If you need to learn more about your potential clients, why not incorporate a poll system? This is a great way to interact with your users without asking them to commit too much time. If you have guides, brochures and interesting information available, include downloads on your website.

Make sure you capture as much data from your visitors as possible. The aim is to try to convert each visitor into a lead that you can contact with marketing in the future. Include a form for every download asking your visitor to log their name, phone number and email address; this will make follow-up much easier and easier, too, for you to make money from your web traffic.

Include Google Analytics in your website so you can track the traffic to your site and monitor what people are doing there. This will tell you a lot about the effectiveness of your website and you can tweak the content according to the results. Plus, it’s free and easy to use!

All types of companies can use the Internet effectively to increase business and cut costs. The key is to understand your audience and what they feel comfortable doing online. Increasingly, people will buy high value items online such as flights, hotel rooms and computers, if the vendor includes enough information and pictures and has secure payment systems in place.

However, if you are offering a personal service which relies heavily on trust, you will need to use your website as a way of positioning your company as professional, reliable and knowledgeable, and encourage people to get in touch so you can continue to develop the business relationship in person.

Even a labour-intensive and hands on industry like property management can use online technology to improve their clients’ experience and increase their own productivity. One company which has effectively harnessed the power of the Internet and seen an increase in productivity and turnover in return is Costa del Sol company HomeCareontheWeb.com Founder Tony Sidebottom feels the current and future challenges faced by property management companies can be overcome using online technology.

“Property management is an intensely proceduralbased business with a high labour content,” Tony explains. “Increasing productivity, using the Internet as a tool to automate many of the more labour-intensive procedures, is key to reducing costs and increasing customer satisfaction. This helps companies thrive in the current tough economic climate and do well in the future.”

HomeCareontheWeb.com has invested in a stateof-the-art website which enables owners to log on and read inspection reports about their property, make and receive payments online, request cleaning and maintenance work, manage their rental bookings and their own personal visits calendar, and book car hire and rounds of golf. The website also has an integrated administration system to manage all aspects of dayto-day operations. This has increased efficiency and boosted profitability. Additionally, the company created a specialist holiday rentals website with its own booking system, allowing holidaymakers and over 100 partners in the travel industry to easily browse, book and pay for rental accommodation securely online.

This technology has helped increase rental business by 75% over the last year.

Your company can also make the most of the modern technology to make money and survive through the credit crunch. The key is to identify the aspects of your company that will effectively operate on the Internet and see what you can integrate into your site to boost productivity and reduce costs.

Developing your website does require investment but, done well, it will give you a worthwhile return.

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Alternatively, visit www.homecareontheweb.com to see a good example of the Internet in practice.

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THETREND ENVIRONMENT The Picnic Conventionally, everything is plastic, from the food containers and packaging to the plates and cutlery. For an ecofriendly Dominguero session, how about an eco-chic blanket made from hemp or organic cotton. Next, pack your woven picnic basket instead of paper or plastic bags. A basket is sturdier and can hold fragile items, such as your glass and aluminium containers. To take it one step further, the serving ware now comes in recycled paper and bio-plastic forms that are compostable! As for the pesky bugs, evenly space citronella candles around your site. Try to avoid pre-packaged goods for your party and opt for creating your own salads and dishes, packed in Tupperware or reusable bags. Try to use locally sourced, seasonal foods.

Tip: Fruit comes in its own packaging!

Remember to collect all your rubbish at the end of the day and, if you did have to use plastic, make sure you keep it separate, also your glass and paper items, to drop off at the recycle bin on the way home. Make sure any smokers don’t leave their stubs lying around.

Maybe go as far as to provide them with a beach/park friendly ashtray and discard them on the way home when you drop off the recycling! Cigarette butts take eons to decompose and are harmful to nature and wildlife – get rid of them!

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The BBQ We all love a good outdoor feast – ‘chuck another shrimp on the barby’ and all that, so this year try and make it an eco friendly affair by buying local foods and cremating them on a gas grill, if you have one. Gas is better for the environment as it doesn’t create the fumes in the air like charcoal grills. If you still prefer the open fire style, then switch to hardwood charcoals and use an electric fire starter that you bury into the coals.

The Pool The kids (big and small) all want to splash about all summer long so how do we make sure this activity is clean, green and free from chlorine? Chlorine is one of the most commonly-manufactured chemicals in the world and its main ingredient, polyvinyl chloride (PVC) is a plastic like no other. PVC is a health hazard to manufacture and handle.

It can’t be disposed of or even recycled! The Association of Post Consumer Plastics Recyclers declared efforts to recycle PVC a failure and labelled it a contaminant in 1998.

From an environmental perspective, the toxins that are created during the production of PVC, specifically dioxin, have been known to cause severe damage to health through cancer, birth defects and endocrine disorders.

But what is one to do to keep the pool clean and free from bacteria?

There are other water-treatments on the market which are safe and effective in keeping your pool sparkling clean.

But do your research first. There are a lot of companies overstating what their products can do. You may not be able to completely eliminate chlorine from your pool maintenance kit but you can definitely reduce your use by combining it with other methods. There are UV filters, salt water alternatives, ozone generators and ionizers, but,

even with these new treatments, without proper water circulation you may still need to supplement with chlorine.

Work with a pool professional to determine what’s best for you, there are plenty of them here on the coast.

Extra tip: Keep your pool covered when not in use. Your pool stays cleaner and also warmer, thus lessening the evaporation process.

The Holiday: Why fly? There are many beautiful spots on our doorstep that we never visit as we have the idea that, if we don’t fly to our destination, we’re not really on holiday. Rubbish! Take a bus to Granada, Tarifa, Seville or Madrid, for example. These are all fantastic destinations with plenty to offer and are right around the corner. This cuts down your travel time and costs while keeping your carbon footprint clean! There are plenty of alternative, green holidays, too, such as bike riding tours, canoeing adventures, sailing trips, hiking holidays, etc., none of which entail burning any fossil fuels or releasing toxic gases into the atmosphere.

There a lot more things that you can do to ensure your summer is earth friendly. Hopefully these few tips can give you a head start to enjoying your green summer. n

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Belinda Beckett visits an oceanfront mansion in Marbella that is truly one of a kind

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here aren’t many home owners who can boast an 18-hole mini-golf course in their front garden – let alone one designed by Manuel Jiménez, brother of Málaga’s famous pro golfer Miguel Ángel. But that’s just one of the surprising features of this spectacularlylocated two-storey villa at Las Chapas Playa.

Estate agents often talk of ‘unique opportunities’ and ‘exceptional properties’ but, in this case, it’s not realtors’ hyperbole. The villa’s living room windows are just 15 metres from the sand dunes that fringe one of the most beautiful, unspoilt stretches of beach on the Marbella coast. As the property was built before the Ley de Costas prohibited construction within 100 metres of the coast (a fact Antonio Banderas in neighbouring Los Monteros was recently made aware

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of), the situation of the villa is almost as rare as the Koh I Noor diamond. Added to that, it occupies five plots (5,000m2) skirting 110 metres of coastline, with a bowling-green smooth lawn that is longer than a world-class football pitch. (It’s no surprise that the upkeep of the grounds is a three-days-a-week job, to the extent that the villa incorporates a gardener’s quarters, complete with shower!)

As the entire estate is two-and-a-half metres above sea level, no one can look in from the beach side, hence there is no need for high enclosing walls and the Mediterranean is clearly visible to the occupants from the garden terrace, over a low hedge. At one end of the garden, a small gate leads onto the sands while lemon and orange trees, cacti, a variety of palms and

floral borders of geraniums and daisies provide colour, scent and shade.

Another wow factor in this waterfront Eden is the 28-metre heated infinity swimming pool which describes a figure of eight in cerulean blue mosaic tiles, reflecting the colour of the sea and sky on a clear summer’s day. A sound system embedded in the base of the pool allows swimmers to enjoy their own private symphony of underwater music. An exercise jet stream, rockery cascade, massage jets, automatic self-cleaning system and electric cover are other hitech features.

Wood decking flanks one side of the pool, leading up to a raised heated Jacuzzi for eight people, encompassing a maritime panorama along the coast to Gibraltar and giving the impression of being on the First Class deck of a cruise liner. On the other side, flagged in non-slip marble, is the entertaining area: a large thatched pergola contains a complete Bulthaup kitchen, designed in weatherproof finishes with Gaggenau appliances (including four fridges, cooker, barbecue and 15-kilo-capacity ice-maker); a salon with a 42-inch flat screen TV, also specially designed to withstand corrosion from the elements and salt-sea air; and guest toilets.

Everywhere you walk in the garden – or in the house, for that matter – you can hear the sound of the waves breaking on the shoreline; or, if you prefer, music, coming at you from all angles – even from speakers concealed in the decorative brickwork outside. A control panel in the pergola allows you to select a variety of music and lighting modes ranging from dining (romantic) to party (wild)! Indeed, the entire property is an appliance of domotic science, with CCTV cameras in the garden, automatic irrigation, B&O sound and lighting systems inside and out and a TV in every room except the guest wc. Even if you are on the other side of the world, you can turn on the

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air-conditioning for your impending visit or check that the gardener is doing his job remotely, via your iPhone or PC. The grounds of the villa have been completely redesigned by Norwegian-born Knut Nordbotn of Spanord, whose company specialises in private property sales and construction on the coast for a largely Scandinavian clientele. Knut spent 20 years in the oil business, constructing rigs, before moving to Marbella in 1999. He has amassed a tried and trusted team of architects, builders, craftsmen and lawyers (both Scandinavian and Spanish) to ensure that sales and projects progress smoothly and bank guarantees and paperwork are watertight. “Your security – my responsibility,” he promises in his publicity.

Knut has a special connection with this particular villa as he sold it to the present owner some years ago.

Latterly, he has worked with his artist wife Katrina and

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the architect Jorge Sismeiro Gonzalez to transform the spectacular gardens into a maritime paradise. That included re-seeding the lawn with top quality grass, replacing the old, guitar-shaped pool with a much more spectacular one, adding the fully-equipped pergola and entertainment area and the unusual minigolf course (Manuel Jiménez is a personal friend of Knut’s). Although there is space for parking out front, a covered three-car garage is also being built.

Knut made just one major internal alteration: the extravagant but somewhat impractical lakes and ornamental bridges criss-crossing the ground floor living space had to go. These have been replaced by feature mosaic tiles and a circular indoor garden. “Being from the Gulf, where water is as precious as gold, I can understand the original owners’ reasoning but this feature would not have been to everyone’s taste,” explains Knut. Otherwise, the interior has largely been

left unchanged, providing a blank canvas for the future owners to make their own statement, or giving them the option to work around the present décor, which is heavily influenced by the original owner’s Arabic ethnicity. While not out of keeping, given Andalucía’s long Moorish history, the distinctive look is something people will either love or hate.

What no one will fail to be impressed with is the fish-eye lens view of the coast through wrap-around picture windows as you enter via the front door. These windows are of smoked glass, to reduce glare from the sunlight glancing off the sea, and are also (prominent Heads of State take note) bullet-proof! An eye-catching feature in the entrance hall is an imposing wooden spiral staircase winding up to a gallery on the upper floor, supported by two columns and crowned with a gigantic cupola of red, white and blue glass which casts a myriad different reflections with the changing

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light. From the staircase, you can admire the Moorish hallway in all its idiosyncratic glory – one wall with leaded light arched windows of multi-coloured glass, another covered in matt white tiles with Arabic motifs in relief, giving the impression of being in a mosque.

The ground floor living area is open plan, creating one fluid, bright space connecting the living and dining areas with the kitchen. In the lounge, Moorish arched alcoves and an Arabic-style fireplace continue the Al-Andalus theme. A granite-topped breakfast bar separates the dining area from a superbly-equipped show kitchen with a preparation island. Behind this is a second kitchen – the culinary engine room, which doubles up on pantries, fridges, dishwashers and other appliances while keeping dirty dishes and the less aesthetic part of the cooking process out of sight

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of guests. Interestingly, the windows in the working kitchen are covered in mesh, apparently to prevent the chefs from being distracted by the seductive ocean views! Off this is the tradesman’s entrance, two en suite guest bedrooms and the home automation control centre, which also has its own room.

On the upper floor, the regal master suite recalls the palace rooms of the Alhambra due to an imposing, raised four-poster bed whose four columns and intricate stonework canopy are a structural element of the room. A vaulted, beamed ceiling and a long balcony with wood balustrades looking out to the sea and over the pool are other distinctive features. The super-sized master bathroom-cum-dressing room boasts a pink and iridescent bronze-tiled Jacuzzi. The wardrobe doors and window shutters are in trellis-work, to create

air flow and shade. There are two further spacious guest suites on this floor.

Constructed in one of the most sought-after locations east of Marbella, the villa is close to the city centre, several golf and tennis clubs, the elegant Hotel Los Monteros and the popular Los Canos Beach Bar. And yet, with only the sound of the sea and the call of gulls to disturb the peace, you can feel as remote from civilisation as a desert island castaway. When Knut describes this as “a one-of-a-kind property” this is not real estate jargon – it’s an understatement!

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The lightweight Tandem Sunlounger by Ego Paris, France, offers multiple configurations and can be fitted with sunshades and easy-to-mount trays for your cocktails. q

Dedon’s Yin Yang Chaise Longue unites the dynamic opposites of ancient Chinese philosophy in a harmonious piece of sculptured furniture for two.

The Lighthouse oil lamp by Menu of Denmark, has a newly developed oil burner which banishes the darkness with decorative fire. Made of porcelain and aluminium in four sizes, from 22 to 65 cm. q

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Changing the water or cleaning the bowl is simply done by taking it out of its fitting.

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Sunloungers that mimic nature, the Leaf collection by Dedon of Germany is made of a durable synthetic fibre hand-woven on the Philippine island of Cebu.

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Zhuang Hong Yi at Houses of Art, Marbella Chinese artist Zhuang Hong Yi presents an exhibition of her latest works at Houses of Art Gallery this month. The artist, born in Sichuan in 1962, considers her art to be a kind of journey around the world, reflecting all the experiences and images she has encountered in her lifetime. Zhuang began her studies in fine art in China, fine-tuning her craft in Groningen and eventually opening her studio in Rotterdam, Holland. Yet her work defies any classification according to nationality, crossing artistic and cultural borders to reach into the spectator’s heart. In 2008, the Chinese Ministry of Culture compiled a list of China’s top 150 artists in the country, and included Zhuang Hong Yi in their selection. Her Perspex pieces have been exhibited at the Beijing Museum, while her Nail Bed (an installation she used 3,600 nails to create) was sold for €120.000, with three further pieces currently at auction in New York.

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Tel: 952 857 196. www.housesofart.com

Anna-Maija Reés at Los Naranjos Golf Club Local artist Anna-Maija Reés has just delivered two works of art specifically commissioned by the Los Naranjos Golf Club for its installations.

Called Las Salamandras (The Salamanders), the works are made from bronze and green marble from Almería. “The idea for the salamanders came from the architectural form of the stairs, the water and the almost post-modern architecture in Los Naranjos,” says the artist. Anna-Maija also recently exhibited at the well-attended First International Art Festival of Marbella.

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Tel: 952 812 428. www.rees-rees.com/sculptor

Sculpture Exhibition at the Museo Picasso de Málaga Contemporary artist Lionel Prejger tells us that when he first invited Pablo Picasso to work with him in his workshop in France, the renowned Cubist responded, “Finally, I’m going to be able to do something I’ve always wanted to do: to convert the little pieces of paper I collect into lasting objects.” It was the early 1970s and Picasso, already an artistic institution, embarked upon a project that consisted of transforming paper cut-outs, into metal sculptures. Many of these are now on display at the Museo Picasso de Málaga’s current exhibition: La escultura tardía de Picasso. Mujer: la colección en contexto. Spectators will enjoy a collection of over 40 works created in different moments in Picasoo’s life, such as shapes he cut out as a child, cubist constructions and sculptures from his later days. Paintings and drawings will also be displayed, alongside three important pieces by Julio González and a magical decoupage by Henri Matisse.

i C/ San Agustín 8, Málaga. Tel: 952 127 600. www.mpicassom.org Málaga Artist Shines in Night at the Museum 2 Quaint art gallery, La Galería Pedrín de Coín, recently celebrated a major coup: the signing of a contract with 20th Century Fox for the use of gallery owner Pedro Rodríguez’s sculpture, Toro Orgulloso (Proud Bull), in the hit film. The portly bull featured as a walking, wiggling character in the Ben Stiller hit, Night at the Museum 2. Pedro and his wife Carmen received an email from 20th Century Fox saying the cinematic company had found their design on the Internet and requested permission to give animated life to the original work. Proud Bull is only one of many designs sold by Pedro to private collections and businesses around the world. La Galería Pedrín offers a host of original sculptures and paintings, as well as exhibitions by renowned national and international artists.

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From the striped bikinis so often associated with Rio de Janeiro to the hibiscuses native to Hawaii, Benetton finds its inspiration in the warm tropics this summer, with bikinis, one-piece swimsuits and beach dresses that will set pulses racing while you stay comfy and cool. The focus is on colour, with favourite cuts of old imbued with vibrant hues and glamorous touches that capture the nautical spirit. Butterflies, flowers and childlike polka dots take centre stage in what is sure to be one of Benetton’s most successful summer collections.

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THESPA BEAUTY

SUMMER HAIR: BEAT THE FRIZZ

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Most of us look our best in the summer: our skin is more tanned, our eyes and teeth look whiter and our mood is generally upbeat. The arid air and searing sun can, however, cause havoc to our beauty regimen, leaving long-lasting signs of skin and hair damage. This month, we offer top survival tips for weathering what is the most intense, yet fabulous, season of the year.

Increased perspiration and humidity can put your best styling efforts to shame, causing your glamorous locks to go frizzy. Try leaving your conditioner in for 10 minutes and wrapping your hair in a towel before rinsing off. Do not rub hair dry with a towel or immediately brush out tangles. Gently pat and wait SUMMER SKIN: STAY GOLD until it dries. If your hair is curly, it is probably more The first step to tanning evenly is exfoliation, which you should incorporate into your daily shower routine. prone to tangles and knots. Smoothen out with a There are many excellent products on the market but, if you’re feeling creative, make your own by adding enough wide-toothed comb instead of a brush. If you’re up olive oil to a cup of sugar, to make a smooth paste. Rub onto skin in small, consistent circles, making sure you for a different, more natural look, forego reach the driest areas such as the elbows, knees and heels. the hairdryer altogether, applying some SUMMER MAKE-UP Skin should always be smooth and hydrated before a tanning gentle mousse onto wet hair for extra The biggest problem with make-up in hot weather is its session though, if you’re smart, you’ll swap the sun for a good volume. For perfect straight looks, tendency to streak and fade. This is definitely the season to self-tanning lotion. Clarins’ Delicious Self Tanning Cream is we recommend Lee Stafford’s Poker invest in a good primer, applying it before your foundation, a classic among the bronzed set, owing to its non-oily yet Straight range, particularly the Poker eye shadow and blusher. We recommend MAC’s Prep + Prime, creamy texture. It glides on smoothly too, guaranteeing an Straight Dehumidifier. For lush, defined which protects pores against clogging, ensures foundation even tone. For the face, few can top Decleor’s Aroma Sun curls, use a gel instead of a mousse, since goes on smoothly and lasts all day. It also counters skin SPF 10 Hydrating Tinted Self Tanning gel, which guarantees a the latter may add unwanted volume. redness. For eyes, try MAC’s Paint, a creamy product that goes perfect, smooth and natural effect. Those on the go will love We recommend L’Oréal’s Studio Line soft and powdery in a few seconds. Containing concentrated L’Oréal’s Sublime Bronze Self Tanning Towelettes, which are Invisi’FX, applied to wet hair. pearl pigments, it helps eye shadow blend in smoothly and super-quick to use, dry instantly and contain alpha-hydroxy If your problem is general sun adhere to your skin. acids for a streak-free effect. damage and dryness, rather than frizz, remember to always wear a headscarf when you’re heading for the sun, especially if your hair SUMMER FEET: SAY NO TO CRACKED HEELS is coloured or highlighted. Otherwise, your blonde The advent of open-backed shoes and sexy sandals are a welcome blessing, yet your feet need to be soft and supple may go coppery or orange. A top moisturising masque to pull off the look. In the last five years, many effective heel creams have appeared on the market including Flexitol and is Redken’s Real Control Intense Renewal Mask, an Dr. Scholl’s Intensive Heel Repair Cream, which contain synthetically-produced urea in high concentrations. Applied once ultra-rich concoction that repairs dry, damaged hair, a day, after filing, they will probably do the trick but, if tougher action is required, invest in an electrical pedicure set with instantly detangles and adds beautiful shine. a spinning file that instantly removes dead skin, cuticles and hard growths.

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You may also consider making some dietary changes, since cracked heels are said to be related to vitamin deficiencies.

Increase your intake of Vitamin E-rich foods, calcium, iron, zinc and Omega-3 fatty acids.

Another common problem is nail polish discoloration. Light pinks and beiges go yellow after two days’ exposure to the sun. Always use a clear top coat over your nail colour, preferably one with built-in UV protection. A good choice is MAC’s Overlacquer, a fast-drying, ultra glossy product that’s long lasting without chipping.

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Hot days and sultry nights are in store, meaning that refreshing, feminine fragrances will be wafting with the summer breeze along the boardwalks and beaches of the Costa del Sol. Take a tip and stock up on these fabulous scents.

Ryoko by Kenzo Ryoko, which means ‘travel’, is a new collection of ‘nomadic fragrances’ by Kenzo – sleek, ergonomic and light enough for career women to carry around on their many journeys far and wide. Designed by Karim Rashid, the range is as lovely to look at as to smell and there are many varieties to select from, for both men and women. Metrosexuals can indulge their olfactory glands with Eau Par Kenzo Pour Homme, a citric, aquatic eau de cologne, or opt for the more powdery, musky Kenzo Homme. Femmes, meanwhile, can select from Flower

by Kenzo (also rather powdery and woody), Eau Par Kenzo Pour Femme (a floral, aquatic fragrance) or Kenzo Amour, a woody floral scent that is set to enamour.

Nº 5 Première by Chanel Nº 5 Première is a lighter, younger version of the mythical Chanel Nº 5 loved by stars such as Catherine Deneuve, Ali McGraw, Candice Bergen, Carole Bouquet and Marilyn Monroe. The perfume contains all the ingredients of the original, as well as hints of rose, jasmin, neroli, vetiver, ylang-ylang, amber and sandalwood to appeal to a younger public. An interesting legend tells us that Chanel Nº 5 is the best-selling perfume in history, having been created in 1921 by Ernest Meaux, who presented a wide selection for Coco Chanel to choose from. She made her choice in a record time of five minutes. Coco herself designed the original bottle, lent her image to the publicity campaign and declared that the only thing she wore to bed was “a few drops of Chanel Nº 5”.

Orange Alhambra by Armani Privé Orange Alhambra is a light, fruity eau de toilette for men, marrying the freshness of lemon and bergamot to the bitterness of wild oranges. Inspired by the exotic gardens of the Alhambra in Granada, it was created for the powerful man who is wild at heart and never afraid to make a statement. Top notes are citric, middle notes reveal the presence of rosemary, jasmine and marjoram, while base notes contain warm patchouli and oak moss.

Dior Homme Sport by Dior Dior Homme is an energetic fragrance created for the sensual male. Top notes are made up of grapefruit, bergamot, lemon and resin; middle notes are dominated by vetiver, cedar and ginger; base notes are a mix of sandalwood, rosemary and lavender.

Spring Tea by Varens Spring Tea is one of 10 perfumes that form part of a special collection dedicated to the world of travel. The scent pays homage to the ancient culture of tea and the people who dedicate their entire lives to planting and harvesting this precious commodity. Inspiration was found in the misty land that extends from China, through to southern India and finally, the exotic plantations of Vietnam. Top notes are made up of a delicious cocktail of grapefruit, orange and bergamot, jazzed up by the dynamic presence of green tea. Middle notes reveal the subtle aroma of citrus fruits and basil, wrapping your senses in warmth. Base notes are composed of sweet flowers such as rose and jasmin, which tone down the bitter aroma of the tea without affecting its freshness.

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Fragrances NAU by Naulover NAU is a new perfume designed to set a woman’s spirit on fire and imbue her with the necessary strength to live her life intensely and feel more adventurous and confident than ever before. During the launch of NAU, Naulover announced a lofty aim for its new perfume: to become a universal icon of femininity. The subtle fragrance of Sicilian bergamot works nicely with fruity apple and peach aromas, spiced up with cinammon, saffron and Virginian cedar wood. Top notes are citric, with lemon, mandarin and apple holding sway. Middle notes are characterised by Oriental spices, base notes reveal touches of forest wood and musk, which counteract the sweet floral scents nicely.

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True or False?

1. Certain acidic concoctions like cider vinegar, lemon juice and cayenne pepper or grapefruit juice speed up your metabolism.

2. Raw food is healthier than cooked.

3. Plastic cutting boards are more hygienic than wooden ones.

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4. Fresh fruit and veg is healthier than frozen fruit and veg.

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5. Margarine is healthier than butter.

Most of us have grown up taking coffee when we have headaches, drinking fruit juices when we’re on a diet and harbouring the fear that dire consequences would ensue if we unwittingly swallowed a stick of chewing gum. This month, we propose a fun quiz to find out what advice is valid and what is merely myth. Are you ready to take the challenge?

7. Chocolate is dangerous for dogs.

1. False. Despite the promises made by many Internet sites offering special supplements, drinks or recipes of particular food combinations, no food in itself will help you lose weight. If you’re tipping the scales too much, a commonsense approach involving exercise and diet (either low cal or low carb) is sure to do the trick.

Anyway, man can’t live on lemon juice alone!

2. Sometimes true, sometimes false. Cooking fruits and vegetables interferes with their antioxidant and phytochemical content and destroys enzymes which help us digest food properly. On the other hand, some foods (like eggplant) contain toxic components that harm the digestive tract unless cooked. As for meat and fish, there is no evidence that they contain more nutrients when consumed raw.

6. Salt causes high blood pressure.

8. Ordering a salad is less fattening than ordering a burger at fast food restaurants.

9. Back pain should be treated with bed rest.

the journey, changes in light and temperature can destroy vitamin content. Dried fruit should also not be discounted. With the exception of Vitamin C, dried fruits contain as many vitamins and nutrients as their fresh counterparts.

10. Fruits and vegetables with the most vibrant colours are the healthiest.

5. False. Margarine contains trans fats which increase

12. Diet drinks don’t harm your teeth, since they contain no sugar.

bad cholesterol and lower good cholesterol in the blood.

6. False. Salt has always been credited with increasing blood pressure but, in fact, it’s the balance between sodium and potassium that counts. If you don’t want to take less salt, just increase your potassium. You need 4,700 mg a day and the average person consumes only 3,100 mg.

11. If you swallow a stick of gum, it remains in your stomach for seven years.

13. Juice is healthier than cola drinks.

14. Caffeine can relieve a headache.

15. Some foods contain ‘negative calories’.

11. False. A stick of gum takes less than 24 hours to pass

3. False. I remember having read a couple of years

7. True. Chocolate contains a substance called

through the system.

ago that wooden chopping boards were dangerous owing to their ability to store bacteria and germs in the cracks caused by sharp knives. Back then, it was recommended that we use only plastic chopping boards, since plastic is too smooth for bacteria to hold onto. A study by microbiologists at the University of Wisconsin, however, reveals that while bacteria causing food poisoning lived for only three minutes on wooden boards, they thrived and multiplied incessantly on plastic boards. If you are intent on using plastic boards, at least scrub them down once a weak with a mild half-bleach, half-water solution.

theobromine, which can cause heart problems for dogs. They should also avoid onions and garlic.

12. False. Diet drinks are high in acid, destroying the

4. False. Frozen fruit and veg may actually be healthier

10. False. Did you know white cabbage is one of the

for you, since they are frozen immediately after harvesting. When you are shopping for produce at the greengrocer, who knows how long it has been since it was harvested? Sometimes it take days for fruit and veg to be packaged and shipped overseas. During

most nutritious veggies of all, packed with Vitamins A, B, C and K, as well as calcium and iron? White cauliflower and celery, despite being pale, are likewise potent sources of antioxidants.

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enamel on teeth.

8. It depends. If you slather your ‘healthy salad’ in dressing, you could actually be spiking up your fat count. Many salads at fast food houses are made with breaded, deep fried chicken which, together with the dressing, can be as fattening as the large-sized burger you would actually rather order.

13. It depends. If the juice is 100 per cent natural and freshly squeezed, then it is healthier than a cola.

Otherwise, it can be packed with sugar and equally high in calories.

14. True. Caffeine works as a painkiller by itself and it 9. False. With the back, motion is life and bed rest can actually stand in the way of recovery.

also increases the power of medication such as aspirin by up to 40 per cent. An interesting study reveals that 65 mg of caffeine is as effective as 648 mg of acetaminophen in relieving headaches.

15. False. There are no foods so difficult to chew and digest that they actually have a negative caloric value.

Chewing uses up a mere 10 calories an hour… think of how much you’d need to chew to lose a kilogram! n

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Wellness Dojo: Well-being therapies on the Costa del Sol Wellness Dojo is a new company offering a host of therapies focusing on wellness as a whole. If you are in pain, suffering from an injury or experiencing chronic pain, try Smart Interactive Neuro Stimulation, a painless, non-invasive therapy that works well with problems like sprains, tendinitis, muscle tension, muscular fibre ruptures, etc. Lumbar pain, back pain, arthritis, loss of mobility and sensitivity can also be erased with this groundbreaking therapy. If on the other hand, insomnia, migraines, tiredness and nerves are an issue, Meridians stimulation improves the immune system, increases vital energy and aids in stress management and relaxation. Wellness Dojo also offers Bio Nutri Energetics, which involves a health assessment using a special scanner that analyses possible imbalances and identifies functional disorders, nutrient deficiencies and food intolerance, offering a personalised programme to detoxify the body, increase vitality and improve mental and emotional capacities. Lifestyle coaching and emotional therapy are also available.

i C.C. Cristamar, Local 6, Puerto Banús. Tel: 952 924 017. www.wellness-dojo.com Essentially Yours Ltd: Organic beauty and health for the whole family If you’re suffering from allergies and other skin problems, you may be surprised to know that one of the main culprits are the harsh, synthetic chemicals found in most modern beauty products. Essentially Yours Ltd. is a groundbreaking UK Research and Development manufacturer founded in 1999, manufacturing environmentally friendly, organically derived products which are completely free of harmful chemicals. All products are made in small batches, ensuring they are at their freshest when they get to you. Shockingly, many commercial brands resort to the unhealthy use of preservatives such as parabens, to enable products to stay on the shelf for months prior to purchase. All Essentially Yours products are made in the West Midlands by British staff and all labels, packaging and other servies are UK sourced as well. Essentially Yours provides everything from antiageing products, right through to baby products, gels, oils and washes, treatments for eczema and psoriasis, and everything you could possibly need for the face and body, including gels, scrubs and shampoos. There is an excellent range for feet as well, which is ideal for the summer, when sandals and open-backed footwear are all the rage.

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Tel: 678 575 241/ claire@essentially-yours.co.uk

Agel: Visionary suspension gel technology for health and beauty If you are concerned about your health but find vitamin pills and supplements hard to swallow, Agel could be the solution. It’s a range of gels containing vitamins and minerals in daily amount-sized packages. The brainchild of Agel CEO Glen Jensen, ‘suspension gel technology’ does away with many common problems we encounter when taking vitamins, such as a need for water, a bad aftertaste and the dreaded gag reflex. There are four different product ranges aimed at different needs. The Agel Active range is meant for those trying to lose weight or increase their fitness level. It includes products like OHM, which increases alertness thanks to a blend of schizandra, rhodiala, and ginseng, as well as taurine, numerous B vitamins and D-ribose. FIT gel aids in weight loss through an active ingredient called hydroxycitric acid (HCA), which stops the body from storing unwanted carbohydrates. PRO gel packs a protein punch without the hassle of mixing powders or consuming an unpleasant shake, providing extra protein for your training regime. A second range of products, Agel Body, provides everything you need for healthy skin. Agel Core is a third range meant to boost the immune system, fighting free radical pollutants. Finally, Agel Thrive helps you maintain healthy body systems, focusing on the joints, heart and bones.

i For further information, Tel: 677 299 258. www.agel.com

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WHEN SUICIDE’S THE OPPOSITE OF SAD We’ve all read about lack of sunlight causing Sad Disease (Seasonal Affective Disorder) but surprising new research shows that too much daylight can have the opposite effect. In fact, in Greenland it is responsible for pushing suicide rates off the scale in summer, and scientists speculate that insomnia caused by incessant daylight may be to blame.

Karin Sparring Björkstén and a team from Sweden’s Karolinska Institutet studied seasonal variation in suicides throughout Greenland from 1968-2002.

They found a concentration of suicides in the summer months, a seasonal effect that was especially pronounced in the north of the country, where the sun doesn’t set between the end of April and August.

Most suicides occurred in young men and violent methods, such as shooting, hanging and jumping, accounted for 95 per cent. No seasonal variation in alcohol consumption was found.

“We found that suicides were almost exclusively violent and increased during periods of constant day,” said Björkstén. “In the north of the country, 82 per cent of the suicides occurred during the daylight months”.

Björkstén believes that light-generated imbalances in turnover of the neurotransmitter serotonin may lead to increased impulsiveness that, in combination with lack of sleep, may explain the increased suicide rates in the summer. “Light is just one of many factors in the complex tragedy of suicide, but this study shows that there is a possible relationship between the two.”

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Sun Smart for Summer The burning question of whether to tan or not to tan always hots up for summer and now scientists have found a ray of hope for multiple sclerosis sufferers: they believe the risk of offspring succumbing to the condition in later life could be reduced if mothers-to-be sunbathed while pregnant. Their research reveals the first direct link between vitamin D, which is produced in the skin with the help of sunshine, and MS, a disease of the central nervous system. The Oxford University researchers say up to 80 per cent of MS cases could be prevented by those at risk taking a dose of sunshine, adding that warnings to stay out of the sun may be leading to lower levels of Vitamin D, and could actually be harmful to health. Vitamin D controls the gene known to increase MS risk. Dr Sreeram Ramagopalan, lead author of the study, confirmed that a Vitamin D boost during pregnancy, whether from sunshine or by taking a supplement, “may well help reduce the risk of a child developing MS in later life”.

However, as Cancer Research UK launches its annual ‘Sunsmart’ campaign against ‘binge sunbathing’, it seems that moderation is the key. Surveys show that many people consider getting sunburned to be part of the tanning process, and 30 per cent of young people say they’re “certain” they will burn on their summer holiday. Said Dr Lesley Rhodes, a Cancer Research UK dermatologist, “The kind of sunbathing binges that happen when people go to much hotter climates and bake on the beach are particularly dangerous. This kind of short, intense exposure to the sun, leading to burning, particularly increases the risk of malignant melanoma. Spending time under beach umbrellas, wearing hats and beach cover-ups and using sunscreen are all ways to enjoy your beach holiday while reducing your risk of skin cancer.”

Around 2,000 people a year die from melanoma and Cancer Research UK predicts rates will triple in the next 30 years unless there’s a radical change in sunbathing habits. Britain now has more deaths from skin cancer than Australia.

BABES BEFORE MARRIAGE For the first time, babies now come before marriage for a majority of young British women, according to Social Trends 2009, the Office for National Statistics’ annual snapshot of the state of the country.

According to the ONS breakdown, fewer than a quarter of women under 25 are married before they gave birth, compared to the 1940s when nearly four out of five women were married before their mid-20s and had children later.

Study author Patricia Morgan, who coined the phrase ‘marriage lite’ to describe the rise of cohabitation, said unmarried births are likely to be in the majority within a decade. “There are major benefit incentives for a single woman to have children. It’s a mug’s game, getting married. But these figures are a very bad sign for the future.”

According to Social Trends, those people who do get married are more likely to live in stable families. Only one in six married couples divorced before their fifth anniversary in 2006, but only one in five cohabiting couples who do not marry are still together after five years. A Government paper on family policy last year acknowledged that married couples are happier and richer than other parents, their children are better behaved and perform better at school than those of cohabiting couples.

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e’ve all ogled the lineup of super-yachts at Puerto Banús and dreamed of setting sail for far-off shores.

It’s a combination of heady seductions – the sense of freedom, the spirit of adventure, the romance of being rocked to sleep by the ocean waves and waking to the cry of gulls. And, although there’s a vast difference between recreational sailing and setting up home afloat, judging from the flotilla of yachts moored at local marinas, many with washing fluttering in the breeze, it’s clear that many people are living that dream. The sunshine factor is compelling, and anyone who can drive a car can learn to skipper a yacht safely up a coast dotted with state-of-theart ports of call, while visiting other countries couldn’t be simpler: all you need are your passports, registration and insurance documents for the yacht and, of course, your skipper’s licence, and the Mediterranean is your ocean.

Yachts today are being designed not just for transport but to live in, with advanced technology that enables you to stay in touch with home while travelling the world. GPS satellite navigation will show you how to get there while computers can detect an engine fault before it occurs and even steer the boat for you. Boats are bigger and better-appointed, with everything from heating and airconditioning to full-height showers, electric flush toilets and spa tubs enhancing the basic facilities of old. Galley kitchens sport not only dishwashers and microwaves but luxuries like espresso coffee machines and warming drawers. Saloons are more spacious and beautifullyfinished with wood and leather. You don’t even need to miss your favourite soaps as most yachts have TV, DVD and Blu-Ray players. And, with boat owners’ tendency to trade up every three years, there are plenty of resale bargains suitable for the first-time boat buyer.

The advent of the modern marina doubly ensures that a boat can be a viable home with all mod cons close by, such as Puerto Banús (if you can get a berth in this

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most popular of marinas) or Sotogrande (soon to see the opening of Blue Sotogrande Shopping Village). Nearby is swanky 280-berth Ocean Village Marina, each with a ‘total facility’ point for fresh water, power, telephone, satellite TV and Wifi, as well as nearby washrooms, a chandlery, shops, restaurants, a casino and all the attractions of The Rock.

So, can fibreglass ever be a viable alternative to bricks and mortar? As running costs of a typical motor yacht tend to be in the region of 10 per cent of the purchase value (including annual mooring, maintenance, insurance, servicing, fuel and cleaning), living afloat is unlikely to be cheaper than on dry land. But yes, says William Bullimore, Operations Manager of Fairline Marbella, which operates from offices in Puerto Banús, Sotogrande and also in Morocco, from Casablanca on the Atlantic coast and Marina Smir on the Mediterranean coast. “Living on board a modern luxury yacht has no real downside unless you miss mowing a lawn as they are, in fact, better equipped than most homes.” says William. “Any modern marina offers the facilities required by the average family, although, if living aboard full time, you would also benefit by having a car parking space close to your yacht, along with all the other day-to-day requirements, such as a supermarket, bank, doctor, dentist, pubs and restaurants. If you have children, having a school close by is also extremely important. Some marinas on the coast, even though they are well equipped, can be a bit out of easy reach of these sorts of facilities.”

“A typical family wishing to spend block periods on board need to purchase the largest yacht they can afford, as space is a luxury that is without question worth spending money on,” continues William. “Most people have an idea of the type and size of boat they think will suit them, but they are quite often wrong. At Fairline we try and steer clients towards the correct size boat although, occasionally, they think we are trying to sell them the biggest yacht we can. The truth is, we actually know what is right for people just by asking a few simple questions regarding their budget and precisely what they want the yacht to provide. The Fairline range caters well for family boating with an extensive choice of models that can sleep up to eight people and two crew in extremely luxurious and spacious surroundings.”

William recommends their Squadron series of luxury motor yachts (55, 65, 70 and the flagship 78 Custom Yacht), which all combine top performance with luxurious finishes.

The Master Stateroom on the 78 contains a large en suite shower room complete with twin sinks, toilet and bidet. This well appointed cabin also has a walk in wardrobe/dressing room, mini-bar, sofa and a full entertainment system with CD/DVD player, BOSE surround sound system, satellite TV and air-conditioning throughout. The Fairline Targa 64 and

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Actor Johnny Depp is living aboard his superyacht, Vajoliroja, while he shoots his latest movie in Puerto Rico. Like many expats on the Costa del Sol, the Pirates of the Carribean star understands the freedom that comes with a floating home, and the opportunity to change the view from your living room window at the drop of an anchor. Belinda Beckett looks at the latest in liveaboard yachts.

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the exciting new Targa 58, soon to be launched, offer excellent family living along with sporty handling and sleek styling. Fairline’s market-leading hard top design on the Targa Gran Turismo models open at the touch of a button to offer true wind-in-the-hair exhilaration.

Fairline also produces the Phantom range of motor yachts, from 40 to 50 feet, designed very much for family use and serious long-distance cruising.

A report commissioned by the Spanish Government estimated that there would be over 5,000 yachties seeking berths in Andalucía alone by 2022 and found that “the Costa’s ports would need to increase by 300 per cent the number of available mooring spaces just to satisfy current requirements.” Ventura Yachts, exclusive agent in Spain and Britain for the Ferretti Group, has had a shop window overlooking the swankiest vessels in Banús for the past seven years and it helps that it also has berths for sale in this highly sought-after marina, where there’s a long waiting list for moorings. “We have some clients who will use their boat more like a holiday home and stay aboard for extended periods (a month or more), although not as a permanent residence,“ says Richard Scott. “Space for living and storeage are still extremely important. It can also depend on how many people will be living on board, and if they are likely to have guests staying. This is very similar to the considerations of people looking for a property. People who spend longer periods aboard often look for yachts that give them the maximum volume and living space and, at the same time, economical performance so they will go for slower, displacement boats. From the brands we represent, a couple of good options for spending more time aboard are the Mochi Craft Long Range 23, and the Ferretti Altura 840. Both are very well designed to maximise the space available.”

The first zero-emission 75-footer, the Mochi Craft has a new hull form to make her more efficient at sea and is available with a hybrid propulsion system, offering a fully electric mode. She has a range of 1,500 nautical miles, a top speed of 16 knots, can be configured with either three or four guest cabins in addition to two crew cabins, and has space for entertaining up to 18 guests on board.

The new 84-feet Ferretti Altura 840 is also built with medium-to-long-range luxury cruising in mind or, as Ferretti states, “More mature boaters who want to cruise for a week or longer with family or friends.” She has both enclosed and flying bridge helm stations and Mitsubishi Anti Rolling Gyro stabilizers are standard.

There are indoor and outdoor seating and dining areas, a huge salon and three guest cabins with private bathrooms.

John Wood, organiser of this Easter’s first Gibraltar International Boat Show, believes that this part of the world is perfect for living afloat. “Given the climate, living on a yacht is equivalent to a marina apartment, but with the perk of being able to move house every day and live in different destinations,” he says. “The market is active now, as the price is reducing on used vessels, making them good buys. But, for long-term family living, you need a minimum of three cabins because, if nothing else, the third cabin can be used for storeage.”

A German-built PR Marine 2900, currently up for resale at Ocean Village, is the type of boat John would recommend – 29 metres of super-yacht with masses of entertainment space, a huge flybridge with a crane for handling toys, fully-equipped kitchen, air conditioning, fresh water maker, full satellite communications, phone, fax, B&O TV, new navigation equipment, three double en suite cabins with whirlpool tubs, plus crew cabin.

In 2007, before the economic crisis hit, the luxury yacht market in Europe was growing at a buoyant 10 per cent annually. As it predominately attracts high net worth individuals, it is less affected by the vicissitudes of the money markets. Ticket sales for January’s London Boat Show were only 12 per cent down on 2008, while the Gibraltar show attracted 10,000 visitors and some sizeable yacht sales. “Putting on the first International Boat Show in Gibraltar was always going to be a challenge, but positive feedback from sponsors, exhibitors, the Government and visitors has been exceptional so we’re already making plans for next year with great excitement,” comments John Wood.

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Celebrating its second Marbella season this year, the elegant late-night haunt makes a bold style statement from the moment you cross its impressive domed threshold and come face to face with a sitarplaying Buddha, flanked by flickering candles. Golden statues of the Asian deity are everywhere, as if giving their blessing to the fashionable scene that unfolds nightly, in summer, beneath shimmering chandeliers of jewel-coloured crystal brought from Pakistan.

A no-expense-spared, total transformation from La Notte, a hip venue in the 80s and 90s, the original outdoor terrace has been enclosed to imbue the feel of an alluring harem, full of Eastern promise. Alcoves with low tables and seating upholstered in voluptuous, ruby red velvet invite intimacy, encouraging guests to engage with each other, smooch to music on the mosaic-tiled circular dance floor or indulge in more decadent pursuits, such as smoking a shared shisha pipe (filled with flavoured herbs of all description, from apple to caramel). The upper floor, furnished with rich carpet and chaise longues for reclining, is a great

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place to indulge in people-watching. It looks directly down onto the dance floor and bar which, with its spectacular double-height, domed ceiling, adds an air of Cathedral splendour. Sensual low lighting, precious wood-carved antiques, a beamed ceiling, pillars tiled in jet glass with golden capitals and walls painted in a pastiche of earth tones reinforce the feeling of being in an Oriental paradise, far-removed from the pressures of the world outside. If there was ever a place to forget your problems and live out your fantasies, Vanity is it.

In fact, the aforementioned number seven has a special reference, as Vanity is under the same ownership as the stylish Seven nightclub in Puerto Banús. One of the reason’s behind its opening was to give Seven customers another great location to move on to, when the club in the jet set marina closes at 3am. Just off the Golden Mile next to La Meridiana restaurant, this opulent sister venue mirrors the ambience of Seven in every luxurious detail but the action goes on much later, until 7pm at weekends (6am in the week).

Also like Seven, Vanity’s refined ambience attracts a more sophisticated, over-30s crowd – from resident professionals who like to play as hard as they work, to politicians, sports stars and more than a few visiting celebrities who come to enjoy the discreet vibe,

without fear of being waylaid by persistent paparazzi or star-stuck autograph hunters. All the club’s seating areas – 45 VIP tables, with waiter service – are on a strictly reservation-only basis; and, although you can find cocktails and concoctions of every description, champagne is the drink of choice and there are many varieties, from Dom Pérignon to Cristal. Plus, as befits the elegant surroundings, the dress code is superglam.

The action starts at midnight, when resident DJ Adrian spins funky and R&B sounds, segueing into elegant House music later, interspersed with soulful interludes provided by saxophonist Pablo and lithe table-top performances by sultry go-go dancers.

Through July and August, Sunday night is Golden Night, when Vanity’s gorgeous-looking staff are decked out, 22-carat style, and there are plenty of surprises for guests too, so go along and see if you have the Midas touch!

Being conveniently next door to the renowned Restaurant Meridiana, which celebrates its 27th anniversary this year, savvy party people leave the car at home, dine there and go on to Vanity afterwards to make a night of it. With Marbella’s two most frenetic party months ahead, there’s guaranteed to be a great vibe. Bring it on!

i Vanity, Camino de la Cruz s/n, Marbella.

Table reservations, Tel: 622 811 323. www.vanitymarbella.com

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Buddha Beach Summer Launch The Marbella Summer Season officially began with one of the most eagerly awaited events on the coast, the Buddha Beach Summer Party. Over 600 of the crème de la crème of Marbella’s glittering social scene were joined by international sports stars including Tottenham Hotspur and England international, David Bentley, who is a part-owner of the club, as well as fellow professionals Shay Given, Carlton Cole, Jermaine Jenas and Sevilla’s Jesús Navas. Guests at the glamourous gathering sipped Mumm champagne and Exakt Vodka cocktails and were also able to enjoy mouth-watering, bite-sized selections of some of the most popular dishes from Buddha Beach’s acclaimed menu. The partygoers included owners Ian Radford and Claire Strutton, Bobby and Zoe Strutton, British Consul Steve Jones and other stars from the world of football such as Liam Ridgewell, Stephen Warnock, John Gregory, Ledley King and Stephen Hunt. This year, Buddha Beach will be staging regular events including the popular Sunday Sunset Sessions, Limelight on Thursday and Sintillate on Friday. The highlight of the summer will be an intimate dinner performance by R & B superstar Alexander O’Neal on July 24, while The Drifters are due to perform on August 15.

i Urb. Villa Marina, Nueva Andalucía, Marbella.

Tel: 952 813 882. www.buddhabeachbanus.com

Ocean Clinic Launch Dr. Kai O. Kaye and his team have just launched Ocean Clinic, an aesthetic medicine and plastic surgery centre offering clients the ultimate in personalised service. The clinic is discreetly located in the centre of Marbella, and all medical procedures are carried out at a privately-hired wing at the USP Hospital. Clients can look forward to receiving all sorts of treatments, including facial rejuvenation (facelift, blepharoplasty, otoplasty, rhinoplasty, deep peeling, Botox and fillers) and body reshaping (liposuction, abdominoplasty, etc.). Dr. Kaye is joined by a team of experienced professionals, including The Dentists, from Sotogrande, who specialise in aesthetic dentistry.

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pGrupo C presents Cerrado del Águila Golf & Resort Club House Grupo C impressed politicians, members of the press and clients recently at a cocktail event held to commemorate the completion of the Casa Club (Club House) of the Cerrado del Águila Golf & Resort. The latter, located in a privileged area in Mijas-Costa, offers an ideal place for families and lovers of sport, to indulge in their favourite pastimes. The first phase of Cerrado del Águila Golf & Resort boasts a golf course that combines beautiful views with top quality installations. The Golf Academy has a practice tee area with 24 stations, chipping green and putting green zones, and a team of professionals on hand to help individuals or groups improve their game. The Club House, meanwhile, is surrounded by six paddle tennis courts made with top quality crystal, where sports buffs can play or sign up for classes with top coaches. It boasts a gym fitted with high tech equipment and a list of activities that includes classes in spinning, Pilates, yoga, Tai-chi, etc. Personal trainers and physiotherapists can help clients improve their game or heal painful injuries. The Club House also offers fine Mediterranean cuisine in its restaurant, the perfect setting for events such as weddings, communions, baptisms, business lunches, etc. Smart looking boutiques stock fashionable, comfortable ranges of sports wear. Nearby, an inviting Wooden House will host a play area for children, who will enjoy a host of fun activities soon at a special summer camp.

i Camino de Acevedo s/n, Mijas-Costa. Tel: 951 170 014. www.cerradodelaguila.com tStarlet: New, affordable fashion haven New boutique Starlet, opened by model and former Miss Ireland, Louise Doheny, in Puerto Banús offers stunning, unique dresses for those who want to shine like a star. Louise has always been interested in fashion design, embracing the opportunity to put her creative flair to use, and noticed a gap in the market for her generation. Her dream is to make it easier for young women to dress up in characteristic glitz-and-glam Marbella wear, without breaking the bank. Starlet will offer new collections each season, with a choice of clothing, bags and shoes.

All items are individual in their design, as Louise sketches them herself and then liaises with other designers to choose fabrics and fits that bring together her vision.

Dresses start from €30 and are available in sizes six to 14. Louise has many exciting plans, including fashion shows during the summer and an opening party in Suite del Mar this month.

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Target Models Turns 10 Target Models celebrated its 10th year anniversary with a colourful fashion show at The Ocean Club. Beautiful models wore the latest in summer bikinis and bathing suits, all available at The OC Shop. Hot items to watch out for include floral bikinis and one-piece suits in bold colours.

Purple is certainly the colour of the season, with yellow and orange hues also making their presence felt. Target Models showed that not only do they have the best local talent, they also know how to put on a good show. May they continue to dominate the catwalk for many years to come.

i C/ Jazmines los Grupo-Arcos, Local 8, Nueva Andalucía, Marbella.

Tel: 952 908 778. www.targetmodels.com

The Smile Launces in Fuengirola

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Arabic pole dancing, beautiful models, chilled music and an inflatable Zeppelin casting down coloured lights from the sky brought ultra-glam, Marbella-style, to Fuengirola for the launch party of The Smile lounge bar. The funkiest new addition to the town’s entertainment scene has events lined up throughout the season and the launch party was a stunning preview. Stylishly decorated with an all-white interior, Vuitton Perspex chairs and leather sofas, The Smile (western end of the seafront, under the Dona Sofia apartments) is the idea of beautiful Bulgarian entrepreneur Maria Petrova and Mario Zarate, one of the coast’s popular international DJs, famed for his stints at Nikki Beach. Mario will be introducing guest DJs on Sunday nights, R&B on Wednesdays, a soul funk band on Thursdays and a great vibe every night. Says Maria, who lives in chic Marbella, “I wanted to create a stylish place where people can dress up and enjoy quality drinks and entertainment. We have great-looking staff and serve the best brands around – everything from Roberto Cavalli vodka to Swarovski mineral water.” Open in the daytime for coffee, drinks and light bites, from 6pm the tempo lifts until 3am weekdays, and 4am weekends and bank holidays.

i Paseo Marítima Rey de España 3, Parque Doña Sofía, Fuengirola.

Tel: 677 086 466. www.thesmile.es

Itsomi: All your fashion dreams fulfilled!

Trendy new fashion boutique Itsomi (a word play on ‘It’s so me’) brings hip clothing to women on the coast, with ‘it’ brands from overseas, as well as Spain.

Boutique owner, Marisol Martín has worked in retailing and fashion nearly all her life, for top names like Armani. Itsomi is a one-stop fashion haven, where shoppers can sit down and have a coffee and a chat, casually trying on any clothing that tickles their fancy. Marisol carries a host of items imported from France, Denmark and the USA, as well as from Spain. Brands stocked include Paul & Joe, Malene Birger, Masscob, TCN, Les Petites, Manoush, 7seven FAM, Sky, Day Birger et Mikkelsen and Princesse tam.tam. Marisol is happy to help clients find mix-and-match items that express a trendy, laid back attitude. With so many brands and styles to choose from the boutique is, to say the least, eclectic with everything from daywear to glamorous evening attire and a range of beautiful accessories.

i Blue Sotogrande Shopping Centre, Local 14, Puerto de Sotogrande, Cádiz.

Tel: 956 616 584/ 620 555 927. www.itsomi.com

Tamara Comolli at La Zagaleta If you’ve ever been to a Tamara Comolli showcase event, then you know that when it comes to her jewellery, the policy is to touch, try on, and be seduced. The German-born designer’s vibrant, strikingly colourful pieces combine elegance and sovereignty with a casual-chic flair for luxury, as seen in every hand-selected gemstone, diamond or sapphire. Last month, she presented her latest designs at La Zagaleta during a private cocktail, giving ladies the chance to see her work up close as well as meet her in person. From the Hippy Glam collection, which features exotic Ocean Jasper stones from Madagascar, right through to her signature diamond rings, Comolli had the ladies stunned and their husbands filled with new ideas for an ideal present.

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Bringing back the ‘old style’ Marbella James Hewitt hosts the opening party at Polo House Marbella

Joyce Versteeg, Scarlet Stenger, Princess Bianca Hanau Karine Maeck, James Hewitt, Ram Nandkishore, Ángeles Muñoz Patrick Hydar, James Hewitt, Princess Bea Auersperg

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Studio 10: Members-only Partying in Style The new, swish Studio 10 opened its doors in Puerto Banús, to a rapturous response.

An elegant and sophisticated designer club bar with a definitive ©Johnny Gates urban feel, it offers the very best in ambience and members-only socialising. “We wanted a place where all our friends and a more discerning crowd could come and feel special, without being interrupted by the less desirable aspects of the Port. And, as its hidden away, its going to be a word-of-mouth type of thing anyway,” says club founder, Susie K. Members can look forward to top drinks and cocktails, as well as champagne and sushi. Studio 10’s music policy is vitally important, with Oscar Lindahl and JM Berutich as resident DJs on a mission to bring the sounds of Miami to Marbella.

There will also be guest DJs plus a couple of big surprises this summer. The management team is led by Fred (ex-Nikki Beach), while Susie K (of Deep fame) will be in charge of the PR. Look out for special cabaret nights this season featuring the best in drag, singer Sandra Love and dancers from Pacha in Ibiza, etc. The club is open Wednesday to Sunday throughout July and August, from 9pm to 4am.

i Muelle Ribera, Casa TU, Local 10 (above Tango Restaurant), Puerto Banús.

Tel: 952 907 922 / 678 312 766 / 671 543 777. www.studio10.es

Fashion Extravaganza by Mount Productions Mount Productions will be combining two fashionable events – Runway 2009 and Model Search 2009 – to create a new event which will be put to the test this year at the Alameda Open Air Theatre in Gibraltar on July 30. The Festival of Fashion will see a selection of current collections by top designers, who will have the opportunity to take their work to Costa Blanca Fashion Week, scheduled for this summer. The modelling contest will be divided into two sections. Male and female models aged 13 to 16 will compete for three awards: Runway Winner 2009, Best Fashion Look 2009 and Best Portfolio 2009. Male and female models aged 17 to 30 will also compete for three awards: Model Search Winner 2009, Best Fashion Look 2009 and Best Portfolio. The title holders will also be able to take part in an international contest later on in the year.

i For further information, www.mount-productions.com Free Trade Markets at the Hotel Fuerte de Marbella The Hotel Fuerte de Marbella has just opened a fair trade and local produce market, which shoppers can visit every Saturday from 12 noon to 2pm.

The Mercado Boutique brings together manufacturers of items made with local prime materials.

A generous ten per cent of all profits obtained goes towards the Fundación Fuerte, a charity created by the Fuerte Hoteles group to contribute to socio-cultural development. This is just another effort by the hoteliers to stay true to their motto: ‘To take care of people and the environment,’ an aim the Luque family has held dear to its heart since founding the first Fuerte Hotel in 1957.

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Stellata: Hand-painted clothing with style Stellata is a new range of funky, hand-painted T-shirts, mini dresses, tank tops and vests by contemporary artist Paula Vincenti. The collection, Lock My Heart, features youthful, inspiring motifs such as stars, crosses, hearts and padlocks, with a vintage, distressed finish in white, stone, cherry and aquamarine. Some of the items come with a light sprinkling of iridescent paint for a glittery sheen, while others are a stylish matte. Each one is personally painted by Paula, making it possible for you to wear your very own piece of art.

The collection is available at Stellata.

i C.C. Guadalmina, Bloque 11, Local 15, Marbella. Tel: 952 883 945. www.stellatatshirts.com

Interhigh Spain: A new way of learning on the Costa del Sol Are your children tired of feeling lost in a large class, with only one teacher and not much of a chance to be heard? Interhigh Spain is a new initiative, offering online education following the British National Curriculum (with GSCE and A-level examinations taking place at a nominated examination centre on the Costa del Sol).

The online school is the result of a partnership with Interhigh UK, which has grown rapidly since its inception in 2005 due to its high quality and low cost product. Apart from the excellent results that an online education method offers, students will also enjoy sports, art, drama etc., in an on-site, controlled and supervised environment. Parents can also log onto their child’s ‘personal portal’ to check on progress and ensure homework is up-to-date. Interhigh Spain will allow each child to develop swiftly in their core academic subjects, with the benefit of complete proficiency in computer and software utilisation that no conventional secondary school can currently provide.

Interhigh UK has already received favourable editorial in the British Press, including The Daily Mail and The Independent, and is accredited by the Online Distance Learning Quality Council. The school will open its facilities on the Costa del Sol in September.

i C.C. La Zarza, Camino de Cortez, Urb. El Paraiso, km167, Estepona.

Tel: 952 884 789. www.marbellaschool.com

Business Coaching comes to the Costa del Sol Media professionals, the Redline Company, are proud to announce that they have expanded into business coaching, having recently formed a partnership with Charles Gubbins, a dynamic coach with an impressive history of improving business at all levels. Line Lyster, Director of Redline Company, said: “We believe that in today’s market, now more than ever, doing everything to ensure your business is working at its optimum level has never been more important – and we believe that using a business coach could be the one significant thing that could put your company ahead of the game, ensuring more immediate success and increased success for the future.”

Business coaching involves looking at your business in detail and studying ways in which it can be taken from strength to strength.

i Urb. San Javier 13, Nueva Andalucía, Marbella. Tel: 952 816 678. www. redlinecompany.com

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Summer Fun at Glam and Plaza Beach New events company Aureus kicked off the season at Plaza Beach with a programme of non-stop parties for the Costa del Sol’s selective clubbers. The opening event attracted bronzed beauties and handsome hunks who danced away to the tunes played by London DJ, Brandon Block. Glam Nightclub opened on the same night, featuring top DJ music, a freestyle sax player and a host of Argentinean dancers. There are weekly events lined up for Plaza Beach and Glam until the month of September, including Iced R&B Tuesdays with award-winning break dancing shows, Love House Thursdays and Aureus Saturdays, with renowned DJs showcasing twice a month.

i Glam is at Avda. José Banús s/n, Puerto Banús. Tel: 952 817 820. Plaza Beach is at Conjunto Residencial

Benabola s/n, Puerto Banús. Tel: 952 908 139. For more Aureus events, www.aureusevents.com

Sublime Management launches in Spain Sublime Lifestyle Management (SLM) has launched the first Britishmanaged concierge service in Spain and Portugal. By building a vast network of suppliers, industry experts and experienced lifestyle managers, SLM provides its clients with anything they need through a single point of contact. Membership does away with undue stress and time wastage for individuals, corporations, hotels and residential complexes, which require a professional concierge service at an affordable price. Lifestyle managers are available to deal with any request, which members place by phone, SMS, fax or email. A tiered membership scheme offers varying levels of service. The list of services is extensive and includes travel arrangements, sourcing professional services, chauffeur services, medical requirements, business support, recreational pursuits, in fact everything from life’s basics to life’s luxuries.

i For further information, www.sublimelifestylemanagement.com Butterfly Children Golf Gala is a Hit The seventh Butterfly Children Charity Golf Tournament took place at the Aloha Golf Club, raising the impressive figure of €59.000 which will go towards the creation of a respite home in Marbella for those affected by butterfly skin condition. Despite initial fears and difficulties due to the current financial crisis, Debra Spain (the Spanish arm of the charity) managed to find support from companies, individuals and public organisations. Some 190 players participated in the tournament, despite rain and unstable weather conditions, while Aloha Golf Club donated the totality of the greenfees to the charity, raising over €8.000. Prizes donated by local companies were awarded at a ceremony presented by Ignacio Abad, President of Aloha Golf Club; Nieves Montero, President of Debra Spain, Iván Cordón, Manager of Marina Banús, Ricardo Camilleri, Regional Manager of CAM for Andalucía, Extremadura and the Canary Islands, and Antonio Maiz, Marbella Health Councillor. The event concluded with a gala dinner attended by over 200 people, which alone raised another €16.000.

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Celebrations Marbella: for top events planning

Classical Music Festival at Volubilis Marbella Town Hall and Música Con Ecanto present the First Verano Clásico summer classical music festival from July 11 to 31.

Music lovers will delight in performances by various musicians, including pianist Adonis González (who will be playing works by Mozart, Chopin, Liszt, etc.) on July 11 at the Centro Cultural Cortijo Miraflores; Ensemble Shostakovich (a string and piano quartet who give new life to works by Schubert and Dvorak) on July 17 at the Ermita del Santo Cristo; Carmen Yepes (who will tinkle the ivories with scores by Bach, Beethoven and Chopin) on July 24 at the Clínica Buchinger; and pianist Natalia Kuchaeva (who will play works by Franck, Ravel and Debussy) on July 31 at Volubilis.

Celebrations Marbella is a new company whose passion is party planning, with personal service offered at reasonable prices. Now there are solutions for all your organisational needs, whether you are planning an engagement, wedding or children’s birthday party, or need help with theme generation, venue sourcing, entertainment, corporate functions and conferences, gala dinners, banquets, anniversary parties or baby showers. Daniella James, who founded the company, has a degree in Events Management and Marketing, and is excited about showing residents on the Costa del Sol how events can be properly managed and coordinated.

i For further information, www. celebrationsmarbella.co.cc

Davis Cup Quarter Finals in Marbella The Quarter Finals of this year’s Davis Cup will be held at the Plaza de Toros de Puerto Banús, with players from Germany and Spain battling it out in what will undoubtedly be a tough set of matches, from July 10 to 12. It is hard to believe that the last time the Davis Cup was held in Marbella was over 20 years ago, and event organisers are hoping the event will raise Marbella’s profile as a centre for tennis and sport in general. Players on the Spanish team include Nadal, Ferrer and López, while the German team will be represented by Schuettler, Kiefer, Kas and Kohlschreiber. Tickets, which cost between €100 and €300, can be purchased at the Palacio de Ferias y Congresos, from 10am to 2pm and 4pm to 8pm.

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Russian Ambassador visits Incosol The Russian Ambassador to Spain, Alexander Kuznetsov, held a conference on political, social and economic issues in the 21st century, leaving guests pleasantly surprised at his command of the Spanish language, oratory skills and affable, down-to-earth manner. He talked about past history as being vital to correcting errors, and spoke of the future with a message full of hope, stressing the importance of understanding and solidarity between different countries in order to avert the present crisis and avoid future wars. Following his speech, a cocktail was enjoyed by all, as well as a spectacular exhibition of Russian icons from the 18th and 19th centuries.

i Urb. Río Real s/n, Marbella. Tel: 952 860 909. www.incosol.net GoResponse Free Call Service Trial GoResponse, one of the UK’s leading call centre providers which launched its Southern European operation in Spain last year, has designed a service called GoMessage, specifically aimed to support the activities of local SMEs. The company is offering a free trial offer to demonstrate how important the service can be for traders and small businesses who rely on telephone contact for new business. The personalised answering service offers multi-lingual operators and is operational 24/7, 365 days per year. It allows companies to increase productivity, present a more professional image, consolidate client offering and improve customer service. GoResponse has been operating for over five years in the UK with a staff of over 100 who ensure that top quality service is provided to over 450 clients, including Burger King, Robbie Williams and Nissan.

i For further information, www.goresponse.es

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Zoe Wood opens new salon in Le Village The location could not be better for Wood Hairdressing, the new salon opened by hairdresser Zoe Wood; it is a stone’s throw from Olivia Valere and a few doors down from the fashionable Small World Café. Zoe, who took a year’s break from hairdressing after having owned a successful hair and beauty salon in Nueva Andalucía, decided it was time to return to her true vocation, making people beautiful in Marbella. Clients are met by Zoe at the bar, which is the central point, where they are offered a range of teas or coffees or even a wine of their choice; WIFI access is also available. Zoe then works her styling magic. On her team are stylist Michelle Edney and manicurist Lesley, who offers the latest in nail technology. Zoe is not only a great stylist, she is also renowned for applying wonderful looking extensions, and her motto is telling: ‘My passion holds no boundaries.’

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Opera nights at Da Bruno Da Bruno is holding its famous opera evenings every Wednesday throughout the summer. The musical season kicked off with a well-attended performance by renowned mezzo-soprano Anna Sargeant and tenor Francisco Hijano, who delighted diners with a programme composed of arias, operetta and zarzuela. Featured composers included Mozart, Donizetti, Bellini, Bizet, Puccini and Saint Janes. Félix Rodríguez accompanied them on the piano.

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S.A.A.D. Fitness Centre opens in Alhaurín

Holistic Coaching at El Molino Are you a holistic teacher looking for a beautiful, relaxed setting in which to hold your latest course?

El Molino, a family-run holistic centre at Lake Viñuela, Málaga, is now available for hire. The beautiful mill house is situated in a peaceful paradise, ensconced in a natural landscape of fruit trees with a flowing river nearby. There is space for 15-20 people, making it an ideal setting for a small group to indulge in activities such as painting, dancing, yoga or making music. Clients can select from a conference room for small groups, or a 60m2 Arabian tent. If counselling and therapy are desired, Birgit Danneberg is on hand.

New fitness centre, gym and fight club, S.A.A.D., recently opened in Alhaurín de la Torre, attracting a host of fitness enthusiasts.

Run by the President of the Spanish Fighting Association and a former Irish boxing champion, the centre offers classes in mixed martial arts (MMA), Muay Thai, full contact, boxing, grappling (taught by a Spanish Olympic team coach), wrestling, etc. The gym features top quality equipment from the Salter brand, quality showers and an elegant reception area.

There are separate classes for women and for children, especially those who’d like to hone their self-defence skills.

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New hotel in Málaga The new Hotel Campanile opened its doors in Málaga, in the busy business area of Avda. Velázquez, just a five-minute drive from the city centre. The hotel boasts ultra-modern installations, featuring 114 rooms, two conference rooms, four rooms for clients with special needs, 24 hour reception service, closed parking and night time security. Its style is contemporary yet cosy, with all interiors designed by the hotel’s architect, Patrick Jouin. Julio Martínez Muñoz is the Director of the Hotel, and his aim is to offer clients the best service possible, with plasma TV, free WiFi access and quality beds and linen on his list of priorities. The Hotel is the Campanile Group’s eighth hotel in Spain, joining other hotels in Alicante, Barcelona, Elche, Madrid and Murcia.

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Long- or Short-Term Rental Contracts?

O wners of second homes or properties bought with the sole purpose of renting them out are often unsure as to the length of rental contract to use: long let (residential rents) or short term (seasonal rents). To try and help in making this decision, it’s interesting to look at the differences between the two types of contracts.

The current Tenancies Act (Ley de Arrendamientos Urbanos) sets two categories: Arrendamiento de Vivienda (residential), leaving the rest covered by a residual group in which Alquiler de Temporada (seasonal rent) is covered.

The law defines ‘residential’ as the rental of a property to be occupied as customary residence.

Everyone has heard of the type of rentals contracted for a period of 11 months and claimed, by the mere fact that their duration is less than one year, to be a seasonal contract. That is a big mistake and could prove very costly.

First and foremost, the name of the contract is entirely irrelevant. Second, if a house is rented to a family for eight months, and at the end of the eighth month the occupants can prove that this is their permanent or customary residence, this will be considered by law a residential rent, not a seasonal rent. Similarly, a contract of more than one year may be deemed a seasonal rent.

For example, think of a situation where a manager of a multinational company moves to Spain to manage an 18-month project. Because the contract specifies the reason of his stay, and the length of time he will be

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staying, regardless of the length of stay, his becomes a seasonal contract.

Under no circumstances will a rent be considered residential if the property is considered of ‘high standing’, which by law is defined as: uA property exceeding 300 m2 built area uIncome exceeding 5.5 times the minimum wage that translates into a rent above €3.432 per month for year 2009 From the standpoint of their legal treatment, the difference between seasonal and residential contracts is that the rights and obligations pertaining to the residential contract are clear and binding. The legislature takes the view that the basic principles covered by residential rentals are worthy of special protection; so, even if both parties expressly agree to forgo certain rights or obligations, such waiver would be regarded as null and void. Conversely, with seasonal contracts there is freedom to negotiate terms, which makes these contracts more customisable, but also more complex.

With residential rents, one of the fundamental inalienable rights of the tenant is a minimum stay of five years. Unless the tenant vacates voluntarily, the Act gives the tenant the unquestionable right to extend the contract for up to five years. Thus, even if landlord and tenant sign what they both regard at the time to be a seasonal rental contract for a period of eight months, if on expiry the tenant can prove that the rented property is their customary residence, they are

entitled to remain in it for a minimum of five years. If the owner is still convinced that it was a seasonal contract and had other plans, such as selling the house, this can come as a nasty shock.

But there are ways round this. You can avoid this minimum period of five years if, in your residential rental contract, you stipulate that the landlord will need to use the property as a permanent residence at the end of the initial contract period, when the landlord will legally be able to take repossession of the house.

Finally, note that tax treatment on rentals also varies.

If the landlord is resident in Spain and the property is let as a residential rent, the tax reduction is 50 per cent.

There is a 100 per cent tax reduction if the tenant is aged between 18 and 35 and has net earnings below a certain level. These bonuses have been established to encourage the rental of empty properties and to facilitate access to housing for youngsters, particularly if they are low wage earners.

Unfortunately non-residents, as in other cases, are not entitled to deduct costs and are taxed on rental income at the full amount of 24 per cent.

We hope that this clarifies the differences between short and long term rental contracts, the inherent dangers and the formula that is right for you.

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Turnberry will host the Open

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iger Woods, the current world number one and three-time British Open champion, has confirmed his appearance at the 2009 Open Championship at Turnberry, Scotland, this month (July 16-19). Woods was forced to miss last year’s Championship through injury but will return to a course that he, like many of his fellow top professionals, has never played before.

Nevertheless, the 14-times Major winner will surely relish an opportunity to make it three Claret Jugs in his last four Open Championship appearances – and few would bet against him achieving that feat. Woods’ last victory came at Royal Liverpool in 2006 where a final-round 67 – the best score of the day – gave him a two-shot victory over Chris Di Marco.

The thought of Tiger Woods and Padraig Harrington, the two dominant players in recent Open Championship history, duelling it out over the Ailsa Course this summer is undoubtedly an enthralling prospect. In preparation for this year’s Open Championship, two-times winner Padraig Harrington has been to Turnberry to get the feel of the Ailsa. His thoughts?

“It’s a super course. It’s lived up to expectations.

I had obviously been told that it was a very fair golf course, an enjoyable course. There are not a huge amount of opportunities out there but a lot of steady holes, with difficult par 3s. The par 3s really stand out the most. You would want to play the par 3s well, with

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the par 5 seventh hole the only real birdie chance. I have learned what the set up will be like, and what shots need to be practised and played, although the course will certainly be different with the crowds (like 40,000 a day).”

Harrington added, “From watching it on TV and hearing what other people have had to say, I knew it was a great course and, from just looking at a few holes, I really like what I see and am particularly looking forward to coming here to defend my title.”

A lot of focus will inevitably be given to Harrington’s attempt to make yet more history at this year’s Open, where he will attempt to become the first player to lift the Claret Jug in three consecutive years since Peter Thomson won it in 1954, 1955 and 1956.

“I am well aware that Peter Thomson was the last man to do it but I feel I’ll be in with a great chance because I have control over my own preparation and, if I get that right, then I can be in contention. From there, I know I can go on and win it.

“I want to win more majors but I’m not going to put any more pressure on myself to make it three in a row.

I’m going to take it like any other major; winning them individually is big enough but if they happen to come three years in a row, well, that’s very special. I need to treat this like another Open Championship. Winning any of them is a big deal.”

“This isn’t too far from my home, to be honest.

There will be a good Irish contingent as there always is at the Open; regardless of how you play, they are right behind you, and it’s a nice bit of motivation. It’s always good to have their support.”

The Spanish contingent will be led by Sergio García, narrowly beaten by Harrington in the 2007 Open at Carnoustie. The young Spaniard had gone into the final round with a three-shot lead and, despite shedding this advantage, went into the last hole needing just a par to win.

Who knows what was on his mind at that point – a new Ferrari, his girlfriend? – but he found himself in the water twice and the hole was halved. Harrington, tail up now, went on to win. Last year, at Royal Birkdale, García finished in 51st place but was the top Spaniard.

Also at Turnberry will be Miguel Ángel Jiménez, Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano, Alvaro Quiros, the young Irishman Rory McIlroy and John Daly.

It won’t be dull – not at a course in a setting better than anywhere else in the world, and that includes St. Andrews and Pebble Beach. Previous Opens, too, have made the Ailsa course a legend. As John Feinstein says in his book, A Good Walk Spoiled, “A hundred years from now, they will talk about Nicklaus and Watson duelling down the stretch at Turnberry in 1977…”

If you had not intended going, be spontaneous, maybe for the first time in your life, and be there. You won’t regret it. n

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The 2009 Open Championship at

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The main bedroom of the Opera Villa

The romantic view from the Opera Villa

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ecalling the Hotel Villa Padierna always conjures up a series of romantic images: neo-classical marble Roman statues, graceful flowing fountains and tall, elegant pine trees. Simply strolling through the luxurious hotel, designed by British architect Ed Gilbert, is as satisfying as slowly sipping a glass of fine Chianti by a fireplace or listening to Pavarotti sing Verdi.

From the luxurious spa, with its contrast pool flanked

by Roman columns, to the lush mural at La Veranda restaurant or the imposing, brilliantly executed statues along the exterior walkways, this hotel is the ultimate in luxury, grand-style vacationing. And it has a new jewel in its crown: Las Casitas of Villa Padierna, a collection of exclusive suites and villas intended for those seeking a second residence or a private setting for a special holiday. Ensconced around the vast Roman amphitheatre, also designed by Ed Gilbert with its cool, tall foliage and epicurean fountains, it is a veritable haven of privacy and beauty.

Las Casitas of Villa Padierna is a ‘pueblo within a hotel’; a quaint Italian village composed of 14 two- bedroom

suites and one- and two-bedroom villas which range in size from 200m2 to 350m2. Each was individually designed and decorated by Gilbert himself, who has a gift for combining unexpected colours and textures in an utterly particular reconstruction of the splendid Tuscany of the 18th century. The casitas have lyrical names like Villa Opera and Suite Teatro, emphasising their proximity to the vast Roman amphitheatre, the backdrop to many concerts and evenings filled with the sound of classical or flamenco music.

The Opera Suite is a perfect example of the level of exclusivity afforded by Las Casitas. The magnificent, two-bedroom abode is a clever mix of influences, with star features including pleated fabric-covered walls, antique furniture, Italian lithographs and contemporary Italian lamps. The living room and bedrooms contain the best of the ancient and modern worlds, pieces that seem dipped in cosy coffee, golden and beige tones that invite rest and respite. Downstairs, the living room and main bedroom lead out to a pretty columned balcony from which guests can view the sea while, upstairs, a second, identical bedroom opens onto a sumptuous terrace and private pool, an almost unheard of luxury in all but the grandest resorts. All villas and suites boast a private fireplace (though the Opera Suite has two, one on each floor), a kitchenette, full separate bathrooms for each bedroom and modern amenities such as a DVD/CD/MP3 player and an 81cm LCD flat screen television, which scrolls up or down at the touch of a button. Delightful touches abound,

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such as the plasma TV, covered by the manufacturer in neutral-coloured fabric and hand-painted by Gilbert and his team in a lovely series of vector-like flowers.

Another stand-out feature are the bathrooms, created using Travertino Olivillo marble whose rough, irregular texture is reminiscent of both ancient Rome and modern-day Tuscany. All the villas and suites contain unexpected pieces such as Ming-style vases, 18thcentury tapestries, antique cabinets and flirty, filigree chandeliers.

For those considering a stay at Las Casitas of Villa Padierna, we recommend a preliminary tour of as many villas and suites available for viewing, since each has its own brand of magic and particular distribution. For a romantic getaway, for instance, a one-bedroom villa complete with a fireplace, upstairs bedroom, pool and sizeable terrace, are perfect. For a family or friendly gettogether, a two-floor, two-bedroom suite would do the trick. Also, it should be borne in mind that some casitas offer a Jacuzzi instead of a swimming pool. Some villas occupy only one floor, while some are divided into two, or even three.

Laurence Dubey, the Director of Sales and Marketing for the Hotel Villa Padierna, tells us that a typical stay at La Casitas lasts anywhere from seven days upwards. Indeed, the little pueblo serves as a home away from home for those who shy away from the hustle and bustle of modern hotel foyers and reception areas. Mariana Chiavini, the charming Director of Public Relations for the Hotel Villa Padierna, explains that, contrary to what one might expect, Las Casitas of Villa Padierna are an ideal choice for many in times of economic crisis. “Maintaining a second home on the coast all year long can pose a financial burden for many, who are opting to hire a villa or suite, where they can feel like they’re in their own home, and invite guests or family members, without the responsibilities and burdens associated with ownership and with the services and benefits of a luxury 5 star hotel.”

A welcome plus are the five-star benefits, such as 24-hour butler service and access to the VIP Las Casitas Lounge, a terraced area that offers guests at the villas and suites a private space in which to relax and enjoy a complimentary brunch and al fresco snacks throughout the day. It seems that enjoying exclusive privacy does not mean foregoing the greatest luxuries this fantastic hotel has to offer. n

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n the 1950s, the San Fermin fiestas were still a relatively parochial affair in which the party was acted out within strict boundaries, set by religion and decorum.

Movie stars, artists and writers were doing their best to masquerade as bullfight aficionados and tourists were being arrested for such trifles as dancing on tables or taking their shirts off in the bullring.

By the ’70s and ’80s, the fiestas had become much bigger and infinitely wilder and there were fears that the original religious and cultural aspects would be buried (or, almost literally, swamped) under alcoholic decadence and general craziness. By the year 2000, about four million partygoers were invading this normally peaceful Spanish city and several million litres of alcohol were being consumed during the 204 hours of the fiesta.

Eighty years after Hemingway first visited, Pamplona is more than ever deserving of the title, ‘hell-raising capital of the world.’ To many travellers, the name Pamplona has become synonymous with bulls, booze and bedlam but there has always been much more to it than this.

At noon on the sixth of July the chupinazo (rocket) explodes above Pamplona’s Baroque town hall, heralding the start of Las Fiestas de San Fermin. The town hall plaza and all the cobbled streets of the old town become a swirling river of white costumes, flashing with the scarlet flotsam of bandannas and sashes. The air is filled with shouts, songs and champagne spray. In the midst of this frantic crowd the heat can be so intense that the buckets of water, thrown from balconies high on the banks of this human river, are not entirely unwelcome.

Las Fiestas de San Fermin have existed in their modern state since the early 16th century and now perpetuate many traditions that are so ancient that their origins have almost been forgotten. The encierro (bull run) is certainly the most famous aspect of what is frequently called the greatest party on earth. The encierro was first conceived purely as the most effective way of transferring the bulls

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Booze

“Pamplona is changed of course,” Hemingway wrote, during one of his last visits to the fiestas of San Fermin – “but not as much as we are older. I found that, if you took a drink, it got very much the same as it always was.”

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The female of the fighting bull breed is said to supply the characteristic of courage to her offspring and, although they are naturally much smaller than the males, the cows hit anyone in their way with the force of a small car.

from the holding pens, which are on the edge of town, to the bullring. From a handful of bullring employees and foolhardy butchers who began to run ahead of the herd, the participation has escalated to the thousands of runners from across the world who now return every year to run with the bulls.

Most people do not realise that the first part of the ‘bull-run’ actually takes place around midnight. The bulls have been delivered to the corrals across the river and they must be herded over the bridge and up to the corral on Calle Santo Domingo. A clatter of hooves on the stone bridge is the first warning that anything is happening and then, from a vantage point on the old fortress walls, you watch the bulky shadows as they gallop through the darkness. They run in a ghostly silence that contrasts eerily with the deafening clamour of the main bull-run.

Guards patrol the corral all night to make sure that nobody disturbs the bulls with any unnecessary noise.

But, from the lookout above the pens, you can get a preview of the ‘monsters’ that will wreak such havoc at 8am and will fight to the death at 6pm. The speed of the galloping bulls (at about twice that of the quickest runner) makes nonsense of the most common bullrunning misconception: that the aim is to run with them from the corral to the plaza – a distance of 825 metres… mostly uphill.

In fact, each runner chooses a section of the route along which he wants to run and carefully analyses what refuge it offers. Many locals would never dream of running in a section where they were not confident that they knew every loose cobble in the street, every doorway and every handhold along the walls.

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The ‘zaldikos’ make it their tireless duty during the fiestas to whallop children and innocent passers-by with the modern day (rubber) equivalent of a sheep’s bladder.

to dissuade anyone from running in total ignorance.

At five minutes to eight, the police move the barriers out of the street and the crowd that has been waiting in front of the Town Hall surges forward. People have been crushed and left unconscious even before the bulls have entered the streets, merely because the uninformed minority thought: “this is IT!” In fact, there is still ample time to make slowly towards the point from which you want to run and, if your ambition is to say, “I was there,” a slow trot will see you safely into the bullring before the bulls have even left the corral.

Once in the bullring, however, you’ll be greeted by the facetious cheers of the crowd: “Viva los valientes!”

The run itself is a frantic leaping thing. Seasoned runners will tell you that there is no thrill that can compete with that feeling of bursting adrenalin as you sprint, hell-for-leather, in front of a herd of charging fighting-bulls. There are few places in the world where such a totally irresponsible activity would ever be condoned in this day and age. The runners appear even more like a river, as a tumbling white wave, speckled with red, rolls frantically ahead of the bulky black mass of six bulls and their attendant steers. Incredibly, there have only been 13 deaths in the history of the bullrun but, on a typical morning, anything from 30 to 80 runners are given emergency first aid by the teams of paramedics that line the course.

After the main bull run, cows are catapulted out into the ring to inflict still more injuries upon the runners. The female of the fighting bull breed is said to supply the characteristic of courage to her offspring and, although they are naturally much smaller than the males, the cows hit anyone in their way with the force of a small car. The fighting cows in Pamplona are ‘professionals’. They tour from fiesta to fiesta all over Spain and, unlike the bulls, they have great experience in how a man moves. During the half-hour after the encierro, five or six cows may come bowling out to punish the audacity of the runners.

Wrestling a cow or pulling her tail is quickly punished by the fists of locals who set themselves up as her protector. She is only powerful when she is in a full galloping charge and then she is a demon. The thrill is greatest if she is allowed all the advantages and,

with every body that she flips up into the air, the crowd screams with excitement.

Many Spanish who are against bullfighting still enjoy the bull run as a time when the odds are seriously (if only fleetingly) in favour of the bulls. Hemingway called the bulls “the only incorruptible animal in the plaza de toros” and some say that Pamplona’s festival of the bulls is when they get their chance to draw the line.

Pamplona is a town in which partying is taken seriously and the peñas are organisations dedicated to just that. They are the cause of much of the fiesta’s offbeat craziness. Along with the obligatory San Fermin ‘whites’, peña members wear a loose shirt in the colours of their own organisation. Membership is usually inherited; thus, many of the kids in these bars are occupying the spaces formerly occupied by their great grandfathers – spaces that will soon be passed on to their own children.

Peña marching bands and their followers keep up a dedicated patrol throughout the nine days of the fiesta, straining to drown out all other noise. When two of these bands meet in the narrow alleyways of the old town, the noise is deafening but, no matter how sensitive your dispositions after several days of this, it is impossible not to laugh at the absurdity of it all. James A. Michener wrote that the marching bands of the peñas, while not the most accomplished musicians, were “probably the greatest noise-makers in Europe”.

Some (but certainly not a Spaniard) may consider it paradoxical that a religious festival is the basis of this week of wild excesses. But, every year, thousands gather to pay homage to the statue of San Fermin as he leaves the church of San Lorenzo (at 10am on the

At noon on the sixth of July the chupinazo (rocket) explodes above Pamplona’s baroque town hall, heralding the start of Las Fiestas de San Fermin

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The ‘Running of the Nudes’ takes place in Pamplona on the 5th July (one day before the fiesta commences in earnest). Up to a thousand demonstrators attend the campaign against the bullrun and bullfighting in general.

The bulls charge over a group of fallen runners in the entrance to Pamplona’s bullring

Of all the colourful fiesta characters, Cabezudos (literally Big-heads) are traditional favourites with the kids in northern Spain

7th) to make his yearly rounds through the old town.

Many will again ask his blessing in the mornings before they run with the bulls. Even when the saint is safely back in his church, his attendants – los gigantes (fifteen foot figures of Moorish and Christian kings), zaldikos (half man, half horse) and cabezudos (‘big-heads’) – will continue to make regular forays back into the streets.

Whatever kilikis were originally meant to symbolise has been lost in the mists of time and, nowadays, their sole purpose seems to be to wallop children (and anyone else in their way) with the plastic-age equivalent of a sheep’s bladder.

Great importance seems to be placed on scaring the kids and another chance arises just after dark with the appearance of the toro de fuego. Literally the ‘bull of fire’, this is traditionally the children’s bull run. A man carrying a black frame symbolising a bull charges past the town hall with firecrackers and rockets flaring off his back and head. The sight is a fearsome one…and not only for the kids.

There are traditional corridas (bullfights) every afternoon but the concurso de recortadores is, for many, a more attractive – and certainly more spectator-friendly – way to see the bulls in action. The bull is not harmed and the men, in line with the spirit of San Fermin, are protected only by the swiftness of their feet. The aim is to slip a metal disk over the bull’s horn, as it charges them, and the spectacle is more easily appreciated by somebody unacquainted with the complex rituals of the corrida.

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de los Fueros; a visit to the sprawling fairground; the circus; live music of all sorts in as many as six different plazas; every morning the encierro and every night free exhibitions of some of the most spectacular fireworks you will see anywhere in the world.

Finally, at midnight on July 14, the crowd gathers once again in front of the Town Hall to sing the ‘Pobre de Mi.’ After its first wailing lament – “Poor me, Poor me, the fiestas of San Fermin are finished” – the song picks up tempo and progresses into an accelerating count through the year: “First of January, second of February, third of March, fourth of April…” and so on, through what Pamplonicas call ‘the ladder to San Fermin’.

The party has been so intense that, for those who have been immersed (or pickled) in it for nine days and nine nights, it can leave a void that seems impossible to fill. Tomorrow there will be no early morning stampede (and no worrying about it!), no kalimoxo, no dancing, no midnight-mussels at the Mussel Bar, no gigantes, no bull stew or Navarra trout, no peñas, no tortilla sandwiches (eaten on-the-run between bars), no wine-skins, no music, no red sashes and bandannas, no dozing drunks in doorways…

It can seem difficult even to remember life without all this.

When the ‘Pobre de Mi’ finishes its count and the crowd roars “Siete de julio – San Fermin!” there is an explosion of laughter and cheering that brings to mind that other one – seemingly far back in history – when the chupinazo first exploded.

“Ya falta menos” the Pamplonicas cheer… “We’re one day closer to the next fiesta.” n

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hef Simon Padilla may have been working at the emblematic Puente Romano for 30 years, yet to him it seems like only yesterday that he launched the hotel with an enthusiastic team. Then, they may not have known of the precise events that would turn the new hotel into Marbella’s most glamorous spot, but they knew they had something special. “The years have flown by,” says Sr. Padilla, “as they tend to do when you work at doing something you love. Over the years I’ve had many offers to travel or even set up my own restaurant but I never even dreamed of it. I don’t think I would have felt as free or creative as I always have done, here at the Hotel Puente Romano.”

For Padilla, the glamorous launch party was an unforgettable affair. “I remember faces like Princess Caroline and Philippe Junot stepping out of Regine’s, the hotel’s disco. It was definitely the hot spot.

Sometimes there were so many people, they would flow out onto the Romano patio. I remember making breakfast for many stars, who would tuck into a freshly baked apple strudel after a night’s partying,” he chuckles.

An aura of glamour and elegance has always surrounded the Hotel Puente Romano, owing in

no small part to its founder, Príncipe Alfonso von Hohenlohe, who built it as a follow-up to its sister hotel, the Hotel Marbella Club. Both hotels were revolutionary at the time, eschewing the trend for high-rise, imposing constructions for a celebration of what makes Andalucía so special: the white-washed pueblo houses paid homage to by so many poets and artists, with walls a riot of bouganvilleas and the spiritual melody of water flowing from fountains.

Since its opening, the Puente Romano had been a source of fascination for Mouaffak Al Midani, one of its most frequent and well-loved guests, for many years until finally, in 1979, he bought the entire complex, managing it with impeccable professionalism and ensuring that, in only three years, it made the list of Leading Hotels of the World. In 1994, the Hotel Puente Romano was sold to David Shamoon, who still owns the property today.

For Simon Padilla, the list of celebrity guests is so extensive he cannot remember them all but one event that stands out in his mind was the wedding of Björn Borg, held in the quaint Plaza Romana, by the ancient Roman bridge. With the sound of the water flowing beneath the bridge, swans swimming and elegant music playing, the romance of the evening was almost ruined when the wedding cake literally flew into the air following a shove from an eager member of the media. Luckily, a dexterous member of staff was able

to catch it before it fell to the ground. “There were so many journalists and photographers, it was only logical that all our initial plans for the reception had to be altered,” says Sr. Padilla, who is hardly star struck, having served athletes, entertainers, dignitaries and politicians including Sean Connery, Princess Soraya, Barbara Streisand, Tom Cruise, Adnan Khashoggi and Pelé.

There is little time for reminiscence since life is fastpaced at the Hotel Puente Romano and the staff is gearing up for a year of celebrations, featuring special events such as We Will Rock You!, the musical based on the life of the band Queen. The event took place at the impressive Salón Andalucía, which has a 600-person capacity, and featured a scrumptious gala dinner.

The hotel is also busy with renovations. Simon Padilla says, “You would think that, with this recession, we would be cutting down on spending but we’re doing just the opposite. We are investing in the hotel, because we are confident that Marbella will pull itself out of recession.” Construction is currently being carried out on the conference/event halls La Alhambra and Granada, which are being joined together to create more space for events such as weddings, parties and conferences. “Panelled walls are being installed so we can easily close the spaces off, or join them together, according to the clients’ needs,” says Sr. Padilla.

Work is also being carried out on the Café Puente, the international restaurant which opens for breakfast, lunch and dinner. The action pours out onto the outdoor terrace, where guests can sit and watch the water in the lake below flow by, shaded by a cool canopy of foliage above. Sr. Padilla is excited about a new wooden oven in the entrance to the restaurant, where he plans on making delicious warm bread, desserts and international dishes for hungry diners.

Few ways could better mark 30 years at the top of the game than a book, and members of staff are currently gathering photographic material, anecdotes and documents that together will tell the tale of one of Marbella’s most fascinating eras. Says Sr. Padilla, “I recall days of splendour and glamour in the 1980s and 1990s and we know they’re set to return…and we’ll be readier than ever for when that day comes!”

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n advertising hoarding on the edge of town declaring: Fuengirola de Moda: Por Encima de Tendencias is a surprising introduction to Fuengirola, which has been accused of many things, but never before of trend-setting. Indeed, there was a time when the tannoy at the terminus of the coastal train service from Málaga said it all: ‘Next stop Fuengirola – end of the line’.

For decades it has been fashionable to knock the resort, denigrated as ‘staid, middle-aged and familyoriented’ by the Rough Guide to Andalucía. With its façade of Sixties hotels rising up from the seafront like a set of ill-matched teeth, it has long been regarded as one of Marbella’s ugly sisters. But Fuengirola turns out to have been a Cinderella after all and today she’s dressed for the ball, as befits the new marketing slogan, with a revitalised town centre, trendy new bars and restaurants, more green spaces and a decidedly funkier image to the bucket-and-spade package holiday resort of old. The Harley Davidson owners’ HOG Rally in 2007, the European Paintball Championships held in April and the Singles Weekend organised by the international dating organisation

Match.com in May are examples of Fuengirola’s Renaissance.

Sadly, the transformation was lost on the author of a recent Daily Mail feature which painted the town as “the cheap-and-cheerful British enclave of Fuengirola, with its brash, football-themed bars”, and described its famous street of restaurants as “a gourmet thoroughfare for British stodge and lager guzzlers.” Old clichés die hard. Had that reporter done his research, he would have found that ‘Fish Alley’, as the restaurant zone is known by the Brits (Calle del Hambre by the Spanish) is so-called not from a surfeit of fish and chip dives but from the 1950s, when the street was lined with fishermen’s cottages. Today, the street offers some rather good fish restaurants and more, besides: trendy Aroma, adding an upmarket, modern touch with its stylish décor and creative international cuisine; Casa Rustica with its delightful garden patio and warm Spanish welcome; Ocho, a hip little bistro whose owner was personal chef to the Abu Dhabi Royal Family and worked for Gordon Ramsey; Moochers Jazz Café, always packed to the gunnels with golfers who enjoy the live music and funky vibe; Toucans Pub, named

after the Guinness mascot (boasting over 3,000 items of Guinness memorabilia, all taken down and dusted four times a year), where TV screens are conspicuous by their absence and a sign states: ‘football-free zone’.

Those who love Fuengirola – the many repeat visitors, and residents – have always defended her as an unpretentious working city with a beating Spanish heart. True, you can still find pubs called The Pig and Whistle but, beyond the blackboards advertising Full English Breakfast, the older part of town’s tree-lined streets and sunny plazas have real charm. The Town Hall publishes a Tapas Trail guide to 49 bars, there’s a good range of designer boutiques, two branches of Dunnes Stores (a kind of Irish Marks & Spencer) and the Tuesday Market at the fairground is the largest on the coast.

There may not be much world-changing history attached to the town, but there are many stories. Plaza de la Constitución, dating from 1841 and the place to watch the world and his moped roar by, is shaded by a spectacular old ficus tree, the only remaining feature of the original square. This landmark survives thanks to a fierce campaign by the locals to prevent

The Smile cocktail lounge, adding a new dimension to the music scene

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F unky Town

Fashionable is the buzz word in a new marketing campaign transforming the traditional sun, sea and sangria resort of Fuengirola into a 21st century funky town. Belinda Beckett, a resident for over a decade, reports.

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it being uprooted to make way for an underground car park. The car park (one of 10 new subterranean spots to leave your vehicle) went ahead but, thanks to some clever engineering, the Árbol de las Pelotillas continues to catapult its seeds down upon the heads of unsuspecting drinkers on the terrace of Bar La Plaza, currently undergoing a refit. Opposite is Lola’s Bar, which introduced Fuengirola to its first chill-out lounge, complete with squashy sofas and a glass wall affording panoramic views over the church square.

Fuengirola may have had big town pretensions since its fragrant Mayoress, Esperanza Oña (Partido Popular) arrived on the scene 15 years ago but it still has a small town feel. You can’t help but bump into acquaintances on every corner, and you will pass the time of day in many languages, as one in four residents are foreigners. April’s 15th International Feria de Los Pueblos involved more than 30 resident nationalities who demonstrated their gastronomy, music and folklore to 900,000 visitors over four days. Even the Spanish Feria del Rosario in October has a dedicated following of ex-pats who don traditional flamenco dress and put the Sevillanas steps they’ve learned at class into practice.

Fuengirola’s list of attractions is growing by the year. The Paseo Marítimo, widened, replanted with

The Aquapark

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palms and flowering shrubs and ornamented with modern statues, is now one of the longest in Spain, stretching for eight kilometres along seven sandy beaches through the sister barrios of Los Boliches and Torreblanca to Carvajal. Two stunning hilltop establishments adding to the fine dining scene in Torreblanca alone are Roca Tranquila, a stylish mansion with show kitchen and creative international menu, and the newly-refurbished Las Islas boutique hotel whose Lebanese Restaurant Fairuz is set around the pool and tropical gardens in summer.

Along the seafront, skewers of sardines sizzle

The lemur colony is a favourite with visitors to Fuengirola Zoo

on spits in charcoal-filled rowing boats outside 29 traditional chiringuitos (reprieved from demolition this summer and, perhaps, permanently as most are permanent concrete structures). All seven beaches fly coveted Blue Flags – the greatest number of any town in Andalucía – and, from June to September, 20 beach cleaning operatives are out daily from sunrise, making sure the honour is retained. Sections of the beaches are licensed for pedalos, jet skis and parasailing and a sunbed can be hired for around €5 per day.

A stylish suspension bridge has extended the paseo past Bikini Beach (home to great live bands in

The Árbol de las Pelotillas continues to catapult its seeds down upon the heads of customers at Bar La Plaza

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The 10th century castle and 21st century bridge – emblems of Fuengirola, ancient and modern

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summer) to the Beatriz Palace, which gave the town its first four-star Spa Hotel in 2004, swiftly followed at the other end of the paseo by the Florida Spa Hotel and the Confortel, also both four star. The bridge’s picturesque location, next to the town’s 10th century Moorish castle, has created one of the best photo opportunities in town. Says Tourism Councillor José Sanchez, “The contrast between the elegant bridge and the medieval monument is a symbol of how Fuengirola is both a modern and traditional resort at the same time. It’s not just about sun, sea and sand any more. We are marketing Fuengirola as a fashionable town, conscious of its heritage as a fishing village but with a fresh, go-ahead outlook.”

The image transformation is still a work in progress.

The Puerto Deportivo is one of Fuengirola’s less attractive features, comparing poorly to jet-settier marinas on the coast. Pending redevelopment for years, ambitious plans to revitalise it remain on the drawing board, awaiting funding from the Junta de Andalucía. Nevertheless, it’s still pleasant to sit on the waterfront and watch the yachts bobbing at their moorings, or catch the daily ferry to Benalmádena’s prettier Puerto Marina, an hour’s journey and a great way to get a tan.

A sure sign that a town has arrived is when it gets a branch of El Corte Inglés. The one opened in 2006 is, technically, just over the border in Mijas, as is the

Aquapark, but as they’re both a five-minute bus ride from Fuengirola, who’s arguing? That was also the inaugural year of the Parque Miramar Commercial Centre with its 160 shops and restaurants and 12screen cinema complex showing films in their original language; and neighbouring Parque Fluvial Sohail, a 120,000m2 green area incorporating Adventure Golf and a jogging track along the banks of the River Fuengirola. Near the castle end of town, work is underway to complete the Parque de Poniente children’s playground.

Another recent attraction is the new Fuengirola Town Hall, of cutting-edge design with a large plaza (embellished with a spectacular beribboned tree at Christmas). Adjacent Parque España encloses the remains of Fuengirola’s old eucalyptus forest, a children’s playground and a sunny café. Behind the park, Fuengirola Zoo is another highlight, opened in 2001 after a long campaign by the local press to close down the inhumane concentration camp for animals it once was. Today, the cageless tropical menagerie, described by National Geographic magazine as one of the best zoos in Europe, is home to more than 250 species, contentedly breeding in habitats divided into three geographical zones. In July and August, when the zoo stays open until midnight, it’s a surreal experience to sit in this ‘jungle in the heart of town’, listening to the chatter of monkeys and the roar of tigers. essential marbella magazine

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The annual Carriage Concourse at the bull ring during feria week

July’s Feast of Virgen del Carmen

Spanish-speaking culture vultures are well-catered for, with regular lectures and exhibitions at the Casa de la Cultura, and concerts and plays at the 1,800-seater Palacio de la Paz Conference Centre. For Englishspeakers the Salón Varietés, celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, is a small but perfectly-formed replica of a West End theatre with red plush seats and a cosy bar. It’s the only theatre in Andalucía run by a dedicated group of mainly British ex-pats (many of them ex-professionals), who raise the curtain on up to 30 productions a year.

However, the most emblematic cultural attraction is the Castillo de Sohail, perched on a green hill at the western end of town. The grounds have been replanted, the castle restored with a state-of-theart sound and lighting system and seating for 1,800 and, since 1996, the old walls have reverberated to the sound of music at the annual Festival Ciudad de Fuengirola. Held at the end of July, it has headlined stars such as flamenco guitarist Paco de Lucía, dancer Joaquín Cortés and opera diva Montserrat Caballé.

This month, it will welcome two of the most acclaimed Spanish singers of modern times – Raphael, ‘ El Divo de Linares’, and Joan Manuel Serrat.

The castle also hosts the Gran Fiesta de la Cerveza (July 24-August 2) a sister event to the famous Munich Beerfest, with many different types of German beer foaming to the brim of traditional steins, served at long trestle tables along with hearty bratwursts and other tasty Teutonic specialities. In August (13-16), the castle reverts to its past for the annual Medieval Market, one

of the largest in Europe. Over the weekend of August 8-9, it will become the stage for a youth concert.

The castle site contains remains of an early Phoenician settlement called Suel but was barely an ink blot on the history books until 1810, during the Peninsular War, when the Battle of Fuengirola was played out around the castle walls between 200 Polish soldiers fighting for the French and an army of 3,000 British and Spanish soldiers lead by Lord Blayney, known as Blaney’s Bloodhounds. Ignominiously for Blaney, his bloodhounds lost the scent and their famous rout by a raggle-taggle mob of Poles is the stuff of legend. Read all about it at the local History Museum, opened in 2003.

Fuengirola remained an agricultural town and fishing port until the 1960s, when artists and bohemians began to arrive, swelling the tiny population of 8,500 to 78,000 today. With the new booming package tour industry, agricultural landowners had little hesitation in cashing in to property developers. During the building of the coastal railway line, due to be extended to Estepona in 2012, the remains of a Roman villa were discovered, complete with classic baths and gardens, now restored and open to visitors as the Finca del Secretario.

During July and August, the population soars with the temperature to 250,000, when Spanish extended families take over the beaches by day and the promenade after dinner. Night owls are well cateredfor. The Smile, a new cool all-white cocktail bar at the western end of the seafront with Vuitton furniture

Concert at the Castle

and designer drinks (Roberto Cavalli vodka, Swarovski mineral water), has added a new dimension to the music scene, hosted by professional DJ Mario Zarate of Nikki Beach fame. Foreigners also head for Foreplay disco bar, the London Pub which has been providing live DJ sounds since 1981 or (for more superannuated party animals) Disco Maxy, which caters for the 2560-something set. The Spanish congregate in the town centre’s copious bares de copas (including one boasting a choice of 600 different shots).

At 6am, when the last stragglers are tottering home to bed, Fuengirola’s army of street cleaners are out in action, aiming to retain the Escoba de Plata (Silver Brush) awarded for being one of the cleanest towns in Spain. Make that 8am later this month. Every July 16, Los Boliches pays homage to its patron saint, the Virgen del Carmen, when fishermen carry the statue of the Madonna from the church out to sea to bless the coming year’s catch. This solemn rite is followed by a massive maritime firework display and, in new funky town Fuengirola, the party will go on until dawn.

i www.fuengirola.org Echoes of Fuengirola’s maritime past

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The Essence of Sum m er Dinin g The lunch menu offers a wealth of choices guaranteed to hit the spot for even a diverse group.

A suggestion is to try a plate of mixed starters, where the chef is able to highlight his ability at using different ingredients, influences and inspirations. His fine homemade foie, served with caramelised onions on toast, is a must for connoisseurs of ‘the real thing’, while fans of crevettes will yearn for Belgium with every bite of the tomatoes stuffed with this delicacy.

Stephane serves up another Belgian favourite, crevette croquetes, the lovely bisque tempting the palate with the flavour of the sea. For a Thai twist on tradition, the prawn tempura is a must, while the star appetiser is surely the ultra-tender seared scallops, served with a slightly spicy tomato coulis.

If Thai food is your weakness, a dish which features the most popular ingredients from this region is the hearty Thai prawn salad, with the characteristic fish sauce, sweet/spicy prawns, mango, peanuts, cilantro and fresh spring onions. Meanwhile, Stephane’s signature dish this season is undoubtedly the super fresh grilled aromatic salmon (served medium rare), with Asian egg noodles and vegetables. With the addition of blue Curaçao and green wasabi, it is as tasty as it is colourful.

Meat lovers cannot allow the summer to pass without trying the Chateaubriand gros sel, served at the table under a bed of thick rock salt and ably removed by the waiter to reveal thick, succulent slices of tenderloin that melt in the mouth.

And whatever you do, make room for dessert.

Stephane has a special pastry chef on board who whips up traditional favourites such as tiramisu, chocolate cake with raspberry coulis and ice-cream, and white and dark chocolate mousse with orange coulis.

For advice on ideal wines for each dish, sommelier Jean-Pierre, a delightful traveller of the world and expert on all things to do with fine wine and food, has crafted a list of 110 wines from the Old and New Worlds,

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he Ocean Club Marbella has always been known for its spacious, luxurious setting, where circular white sun beds, beautiful dark wood decking and a 1,000m2 pool invite you to open a bottle of Veuve Clicquot, soak up the rays and chill out to cool DJ-spun music. The last two seasons, however, have set tongues wagging in another direction: a culinary one, thanks in no small part to new Head Chef, Stephane Bruylant, the clever Belgian who is as besotted by creativity as he is by quality.

Stephane, who boasts experience at stalwarts such as the three-Michelin-starred Restaurant Alain Ducasse in Paris and the renowned Si Versailles in Knokke-Heist, Belgium, is surprisingly humble and as enthusiastic as a child on the first day of summer. When he arrived in Spain, a little over a year ago, he was thrilled to be given carte blanche by the new owners of the Ocean Club who, aside from carrying out impressive renovations to the Club itself (flooring, pool, etc), allowed him to bring the kitchen of his dreams to life: a sizeable haven divided into spacious, specific areas for the creation of different dishes such as sushi, salads, meat, seafood and pastries.

Stephane defines his cuisine as French/Belgian with Asian touches, marrying his experience in top international kitchens with the appetite-rousing addition of herbs and spices like cilantro, coriander and basil. “I aim for creativity in my cuisine, introducing new colours and flavours but always starting out from a base of the best quality produce I can find.” His quest for excellence leads him to import ingredients like exquisite Belgian grey shrimp, North Sea sole and cod, and famously flavourful oysters from Holland, though he does prefer to make everything – including breads and pizza bases – in-house. The result is a blend of Belgian favourites, fine French dishes, refreshing sushi and sashimi and top quality meat dishes, many of which are fused with the spicy, fresh flavours of Thailand and Japan.

including France, Australia, New Zealand, Chile, the USA, Italy, Argentina and South Africa. On our visit, he delighted us with conversation on different countries, cultures and varieties of grapes, reminding us that truly excellent wines are being made all over the world.

The service has also reached an all-time high at the Ocean Club since last season, with many staff members boasting as many as four or five languages. Our waiter, the affable Peter Lossy, spoke five and admits to a thorough knowledge of gastronomy and wine, as well as the origin, cooking methods and cultural ancestry of many dishes.

Aside from an outstanding menu, Stephane and his team are excited about the special events lined up for the summer. On July 3, there will be a Chef’s Dinner, where Stephane will present his temptations for the new dinner menu which will be available in July and August. With champagne parties, wine tasting events and special gastronomic dinners lined up, 2009 promises to be the most exciting season yet for those who can think of nothing better than fine dining in an exquisite setting by the sea.

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The elegant new three-in-one place to wine, dine and dance at Puerto Banús photography kevin horn

Belinda Beckett is blown away by …

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trail of iridescent bubbles floats up into the night sky, hovering like tiny twinkling stars above diners seated on a stylish rooftop terrace overlooking Plaza Antonio Banderas. The soap bubble-machine is a little touch of fun and fantasy adding to a dining experience that is putting the old summer magic back into Puerto Banús and giving visitors a more compelling reason to visit the jet set marina than celebrity spotting.

Indeed, it’s because of autograph hunters and paparazzi that the waterfront has been given a wide berth by A-list celebrities, of late. But, unless the paparazzi are prepared to charter a helicopter, Antonio Banderas himself could enjoy a meal in quiet anonymity at this elegant restaurant overlooking the square named after him. Bubbles floats two storeys up, alongside Tibu night club, its wood-decked terrace enclosed by a tropical perimeter of palms and conifers. Tables are tucked away in intimately-lit corners or under thatched Balinese gazebos hung with billowing curtains and strewn with decadent cushions, à la Arabian Nights. Three members of Russian royalty have already discovered the restaurant’s secluded charms and, on a Tuesday night in early June, the place was buzzing with guests, including the owner of a well-known Marbella beach club and several tables of customers who have remained loyal to charismatic Swedish restaurateur, Styrbjörn Holm.

When a new restaurant opens in town, especially one championed by such a successful entrepreneur,

everyone wants to check it out. The founder of Magna Café has brought his talented head chef Edmund Cicans (a colleague of 10 years) and seven of his original team from Nueva Andalucía into this ambitious enterprise – a three-in-one (or ‘triplebubble’) experience of 80-cover restaurant with pergola-covered sky bar, adjacent chill-out cocktail lounge and VIP entrance to Tibu Banús (or for the younger crowd, Linekers, round the corner).

A chilled place to catch the sun’s dying rays over a pre-dinner drink, after dark the stunning lighting turns the terrace into a romantic other-world, where gorgeous-looking serving staff in thigh-hugging black toreador pants and scarlet tops are at guests’ beck and call. “Banús is very night-driven so we’ve focused on creating a sexy ambience and a trendier concept in food. You don’t have to go on anywhere for a complete night out and it helps that we’re on top of a 2,000-space car park with direct access by lift,” says Holm, who has hit on a winning formula by combining great dining with the pulling power of the award-winning Sintillate party promoters and the Linekers Group, plus the chance to sample Exakt cocktails – made with his signature brand of Swedish vodka.

Behind the scenes, the gleaming kitchen has four chef’s stations, including one devoted to the preparation of an extensive choice of Japanese sushi, sashimi, ura maki and hoso maki, orchestrated by a chef who honed his craft in Asia, Monte Carlo and at Sushi des Artistes in Marbella. “We’ve introduced lighter, Asiatic dishes, a wider range of starters, and sharpened up the content and presentation of our more popular dishes at Magna Café to give them an edgier look,” adds Edmund, who has reinvented his famous gravad lax, for example, as lime and pepper marinated salmon carpaccio with French mustard sauce and dill. Hot and cold starters include light delights like cajún chicken salad, Vietnamese chicken spring rolls with sweet chilli sauce, fried

Japanese cheese balls, Asiatic wakame salad and the lightest, fluffiest tempura, which we all tried.

I don’t eat fish but, determined I would not remain a sushi virgin, Holm had the kitchen prepare me a seafood-free version with melt-in-the-mouth duck foie, delicate bundles of avocado, cucumber and rice tied with seaweed ribbons, tissue-thin slivers of ginger and piquant wasabi – a delicious way to lose my ‘sushi cherry’, as it were!

Larger appetites can be satisfied with fish, meat and pasta main courses (tuna steak with teriyaki sauce, king size tiger prawns, Edmund’s famous Africana – skewered beef fillet with fruity and curry elements). My companion eulogised over the delicate flavours of her penne with creamy lobster sauce; my farfalle pasta with tender beef fillet and plump porcini mushrooms in a creamy balsamic sauce was a scrumptious modern take on beef stroganoff. And we can both highly recommend the cheesecake with its crunchy biscuit base and just the right pitch of sharpness, topped with a fruity, fresh strawberry jelly.

With an excellent house wine (a Valduero from Ribero del Duero), a funky party food menu that’s excellent value for Banús, topped by a great vibe and service that makes you feel you’re one of ‘the beautiful people’, Bubbles looks like being THE in-crowd haunt for Summer 2009. So get on your gladrags and try it before there’s a waiting list for the waiting list because, like me, you’re going to be blown away by Bubbles!

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Plaza Antonio Banderas (beside Tibu, entrance opposite the central gateway to the port or direct by lift from the underground car park). Tel: 606 070 979.

Open daily from 7.30pm-late. Average price of a three-course meal with wine, €50.

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Terra Sana Franchising

Popular restaurant chain, Terra Sana, is pleased to announce the launch of two new Terra Sana franchises: last month the Laguna Village branch brought new life to the popular beachside commercial centre, while this month, another Terra Sana is opening in Elviria. Terra Sana franchising is a welcome way to beat the credit crunch, offering low investment from a tested and profitable business with a popular, well-known brand. Franchising has indeed proven to be a successful endeavour, with the Terra Sana in Marbella going from strength to strength since its opening in November, 2008. There are current talks for yet another franchise this summer, this time in Fuengirola. Terra Sana can lay claim to three advantages when it comes to franchising: affordability, viability and reliability.

i For further information, Tel: 951 272 972. www.terrasana.net

Gastronomic event at Restaurante Ombú Restaurante Ombú, at the Hotel Don Carlos, recently invited four different chefs to take part in a gastronomic event paying homage to the four elements: earth, fire, water and air. The event involved the conception of a special menu for each day, created by chefs Mauro Barreiro (from the Hotel Fairplay Golf & Spa in Cádiz), Jorge J. Ortiz Manfredi (from Restaurante Montana in Málaga), Kisko García (from Restaurante Choco in Córdoba) and Rodrigo Martínez (from Hotel Dolce Sitges in Barcelona). Ombu’s Head Chef, the talented Óscar Teja, also took part in the event, elaborating a menu incorporating the best in fish and meat dishes.

i CN 340, km 192, Marbella. Tel: 952 768 800. www.hoteldoncarlos.com

Iguana Grill: for fine creative Mediterranean Scottish husband and wife team, Ian Elsby cuisine and Marie Lundie, always had a passion for Spanish food, so they decided to go with their hearts and open the Iguana Grill. Their Head Chef, Stephane Espinosa, is renowned for excellent cuisine that marries the best recipes with a breathtaking presentation, having honed his craft at renowned kitchens in France and Spain. He is a fan of the simple yet elegant nouvelle cuisine, as espoused by Jean and Pierre Troisgros, Bocuse and Gérard, and is also influenced by traditional Spanish recipes. At Iguana grill he has prepared a wide selection of temptations, including five different chef’s specials every day, in addition to the à la carte menu, with everything from pasta to fish and meat choices. Star dishes include grilled fillet of steak with foie and mushroom sauce and duck salad with truffle oil. Iguana Grill also has a specially priced menu from Monday to Friday and a popular Facebook page, which diners can sign up to in order to win a free meal. The restaurant is open from Monday to Saturday for lunch and dinner, and for breakfast from Monday to Friday.

i CN 340, km 189, Pinomar, Marbella. Tel: 952 830 735.

Learn to cook the Novelli way Acclaimed chef Jean-Christophe Novelli, who recently opened his latest gastronomic venture at the Hotel Lorcrimar, is now bringing his renowned cooking academy to the Costa del Sol, hoping to replicate the success of his Novelli Academy in Hertfordshire, which was voted one of the Top 25 Cookery Schools in the World a few months after its opening. Novelli is excited about sharing the joy of cooking, and hopes that as many men as women will sign up. A typical course ranges from lessons in the art of bread making to stunning recipes from his popular book, Everyday Novelli. All recipes are easy and are transferable to domestic kitchens. Foodies can look forward to preparing delights such as garden pea and pancetta cappuccino, hand dived scallops baked in their shells served with vanilla piperade or slow braised honey and cider caramelised pork belly.

i For further information and dates of courses, Hotel Lorcrimar, CN 340, Km 173, Nueva Andalucía, Marbella. Tel: 608 810 548. www.hotel-lorcrimar.com

Ivy: Fine international and Basque dining at El Casco Tennis Club Ivy is the new international and Basque cuisine restaurant at El Casco Tennis Club. With everything from the freshest of fish dishes right through tender meat temptations, everyone in the family is sure to find something that hits the spot. The founders of Ivy, Andrés Vales, Fernando Berisa and Chef Javier Covanera, have a combined experience that covers some of Marbella’s finest establishments. The main investors, Mr. and Mrs. Burn, are proud to be part of a team that is a guarantee of success. The restaurant also has a coffee shop that serves a wide range of options. There is a chill out area with live music on weekends and on some week days. Every Saturday the Coffee Shop offers paella for just €7 a plate, and there is a daily three-course menu for just €8. At the restaurant, enjoy a three-course meal for €27 (prior booking is necessary). Ivy caters for all sorts of events such as weddings, parties, etc. The restaurant is open Monday to Saturday for lunch and dinner and for Sunday for a special lunch with live music. The Coffee Shop opens for breakfast, lunch and dinner every day.

i Urb. El Rosario, Club de Tennis El Casco, Marbella. Tel: 952 831 989/ 952 833 597/ 659 515 055.

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and Wednesday to Sunday for lunch. CN 340, km 178.5, Marbella.

Tel: 952 857 403. www.sushidesartistes.com

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odern sushi has come to be associated with California-style, delicious but simple rolls filled with easily manageable ingredients like avocado and shrimp. While it makes a satisfying light lunch or healthy snack, many diners yearn for authentic sushi, where melt-in-the mouth fish is prepared using ancient techniques, served at the right temperature and with the presentation so characteristic of Japanese culinary tradition. In Japan, each dish is a work of art where colour, shape and the imagination are married in creations that are sometimes figurative, sometimes bordering on the surreal, but which always pay homage to nature, with its delicate flowers, swimming fish and flowing waters.

Sushi des Artistes is a veritable floating island; a delightful piece of Japan transported to the Golden Mile, serving both sushi and international dishes. The restaurant is captained by two chefs: Saito Taka, who heads the international cuisine team, and Ryu Oikawa, in charge of the sushi section. Saito, known as ‘the face’ of Sushi des Artistes, with his own veritable fan club and many friends from Marbella on Facebook, humbly refuses to be known as ‘the chef’, explaining, “In Spain, restaurants give primary importance to the chef. Our philosophy is different. For us, the chef and his cuisine make up only 30 per cent of a great restaurant. Another 30 per cent comes from the décor and 40 per cent is made up by the ambience.

That includes service, music… elements that make customers feel comfortable and special.”

The management of Sushi des Artistes is serious about offering something different: the interiors are far from what one might expect for a traditional Japanese restaurant. Italian crystal chandeliers, bold colours, lush furniture and elegant neo-Baroque mirrors hold sway, while the music consists of classics such as Frank Sinatra and orchestra-style singing, which imbues a sense of calm and relaxing elegance.

Saito concedes that while the chefs are only part of what gives Sushi des Artistes its renown, “We give 200 per cent of our energy.” Saito and Ryu are passionate about fine cuisine and, when the restaurant closes, they often stay behind and talk about their favourite subject – food – thinking up new dishes, talking about top restaurants and planning their next trip. Says Saito, “We like to focus on what is taking place on the world scene.

Throughout the year the team travels to cities like London or New York, to find out what’s in and inspire us for new additions to the restaurant.”

Saito beams when he talks about Ryu, and the feeling is mutual. Both always knew they wanted their professional life to centre on cuisine. Saito’s first forays into the culinary scene took place in the kitchens of a traditional Japanese restaurant in Tokyo. He explains, “There I learned classical Japanese cuisine: the basics, like how to slice vegetables in the traditional style, how to make soup, etc.

But my passion was always French and Italian cuisine and I was lucky enough to work at a renowned International cuisine restaurant in Tokyo, where I was able

to immerse myself in the secrets of the French and Italians.” Ryu, meanwhile, was fortunate enough to work at a restaurant located near one of Japan’s most renowned fish markets, a crucial factor in his mastery of fish. “To be a sushi chef in Japan, you need to study for nine years,” he says, admitting to 12 years experience learning crucial techniques like how to shop at the local market. “Hygiene is vital in any type of cuisine but especially when you are dealing with raw fish. It takes a good eye and plenty of experience to know which fish is fresh and which isn’t, and how to handle fish so it is always fresh and stored, as well as served, at the right temperature”.

Sushi des Artistes serves unique treats like the buttery salmon sashimi served with caviar, almost a sin to destroy by popping it into your mouth! Alongside an impressive selection of sushi and sashimi dishes, there are meat delicacies such as the Gyu tataki (quick-seared veal tenderloin and scallion, served with a wasabi and tamari sauce). Saito tells us that the meat is directly imported from San Sebastian, famed for its melt-in-themouth, tender beef. Another favourite among diners is Saito’s slow-cooked duck foie gras, served with mango, shiitake, edamame, seasonal fruit purée and a lemon pepper sauce, a veritable explosion of savoury, sweet and tangy flavours. Saito is content with the wide variety of dishes on offer, explaining: “Many people think you can only order sushi at our restaurant but, in fact, we prepare so many grilled and international dishes, there is always something for everyone.” At a restaurant serving market fresh produce and top quality fish and beef, it is amazing to be able to select from over 30 main dishes.

Saito and Ryu are masters of precision and true professionals. Their excitement and grounded approach are welcome additions to a culinary scene that is often marred by ego, excessive marketing and culinary arrogance. Sushi des Artistes is a perfect example of teamwork at its best, where impressive dishes, beautiful décor and friendly service are all part and parcel of an unforgettable experience. n

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t is not easy to become a Master of Wine. The first exams were held in London in 1953 and only six out of the 21 aspirants passed the exam. Sarah Morphew Stephen became the first female MW in 1970 and, when the exam was opened up to non-wine trade aspirants in 1984, Jancis Robinson was the first to gain her diploma.

Even after nearly 60 years of activity, there are only 275 Masters of Wine in the world, and you can understand people’s reluctance to have a go; imagine, you have a respected position in the wine trade, you sit the exam and fail. You’d never live it down.

Lynne Sherriff had no such doubts and stormed through with an excellent pass; she is currently VicePresident. This is an honorary position involving lots of travel. For example, when the Institute of Masters of Wine presented its first MW class in Asia, Lynne cohosted the event.

Lynne is also active in spreading the word and, in May this year, lectured on New World wines to students taking the Belgian Wine & Spirit Diploma, sharing the podium with Pancho Campo, Spain’s one and only (so far) Master of Wine. Lynne is also active in the European Wine Academy and participated in the Second Climate Change and Wine World Congress in Barcelona.

All this makes Lynne a hard person to track down.

Although I had originally met her in Marbella earlier this year when she came to visit her son Michael, who is head chef at Garry Waite’s Rincón del Guadalpin Restaurant near Puerto Banús, I needed to speak to her again for this article. It turned out Lynne was participating in a road show organised by ICEX (the Spanish Export Institute) which involved travelling around wine regions telling producers how they should focus their wines for selling abroad. Since the programme gave her little time to breathe between speaking engagements it took four days to get her onside.

Lynne has visited Chile, Sweden, USA, Australia, Japan, South Africa, Germany, Norway, New Zealand and Italy recently, either in her official capacity for the Institute of Masters of Wine, or wearing her professional flying winemaker cape. Not many people know that Japan is a wine exporter, and are even less likely to know that this is partly thanks to Lynne, as a result of advising one of her clients in the Yamanashi Prefecture

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in 1998. Japanese producers were previously unable to export to the UK. Lynne started in the family business in her native South Africa and, since this happened to be the hotel trade, the wine connection was hardly a giant step. She thinks her real interest in wine started while she was working for a Swiss hotel manager who would plunder the best bottles in the hotel’s cellar late at night, when there were no guests around, and share them with key staff. Her first wine trade job was in Neiderburg, Germany, and from there she won a bursary to study in France for a year. In 1991, she found herself working in Hong Kong from where she finally decided that the quantum leap that would establish her in the business would be to become a Master of Wine. Lynne achieved this in 1993 but, in the meantime, she was headhunted by a major South African exporter to head up its UK operation. That did for her as far as returning to SA was concerned, and marrying her British husband a little later sealed her future as far as country of residence was concerned.

Lynne confesses to having learnt a lot in California, South Africa and New Zealand. How is the recession affecting wine producers? Not too badly, she says. It is not surprising that EU producers’ sales to the UK are suffering because of the euro/pound exchange rate, although the other side of the florin is that this has helped South African winemakers, whose exports are booming.

So what does Lynne think of Spanish wines? Anyone with a minimal knowledge of the trade will admit that Spain has a problem which has never been resolved.

The country has 16 million foreign visitors annually, and many of these enjoy drinking Spanish wine while they are here; but as soon as they get home, they

seem to forget all about it. Rioja wines have a toehold in most export markets, but your typical Rioja drinker tends to be a middle-class 40-something male – hardly an emerging market. Nevertheless, Lynne was impressed by the young winemakers who attended her ICEX seminars; they all seemed to be articulate and to understand where the problems lie and, most important of all, what they have to do to make their wines acceptable to foreign markets … unlike central European producers who, while producing excellent wines, do not seem to have made the grade as far as northern European drinkers are concerned.

i Lynne will be in Marbella regularly for the Marbella

Wine Appreciation Society’s monthly meetings.

For details, contact Garry Waite at garrywaite.elrincon@gmail.com

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RESTAURANTS Price guide

Per head for a three-course meal with wine

RESTAURANTS AMERICAN

Under €25

Jacks

€25 – €40

Open seven days a week from noon till late.

Puerto Banús, Tel: 952 813 625, Puerto Marina, Benalmádena. Tel: 952 563 673

€40 – €60 €60 plus

Yanx Open from 9am Monday to Saturday and Sunday from 11am for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Centro Plaza, Nueva Andalucía. Tel: 952 818 861

INDIAN

INTERNATIONAL

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TGI Friday’s

GRILLS

Open from 12pm to 12am. Avda. Muelle de Ribera, locales 4-5, Marina Banús, Puerto Banús. Tel: 952 815 993

Tony Roma’s

GREEK

Open from 1pm-4pm and from 7pm to 12am.

Ctra. de Cádiz, km.176, 29600, Marbella. Tel: 952 765 533

ARABIC Afamia

FRENCH

Open 24 hours a day every day. Urb. Benabolá,10, local C, Puerto Banús. Tel: 952 815 068

ARGENTINEAN B.Ayres

Buenos Aires South Open Monday to Saturday for lunch and dinner.

C/ Virgen del Pilar, 6, Marbella. Tel: 952 779 297

Clericó Open every day for lunch and dinner. Avda.

Antonio Belón, 22, Marbella. Tel: 952 765 683.

FRENCH

El Carnicero Open daily for both lunch and dinner. Pueblo Viejo Cancelada. Between San Pedro & Estepona. Tel: 952 886 307

El Carnicero 2 Open every day for lunch and dinner. Ctra. de Cádiz, km. 176, Marbella. Tel: 952 867 599

El Coto Open daily for both lunch and dinner. Ctra. de Ronda (El Madroñal), San Pedro de Alcántara.

Tel: 952 786 688

Valderrama Restaurant

El Gaucho

Open Tuesday to Saturday for dinner only and on Sunday for Buffet Lunch. Apartado 1, Ctra. de Cádiz, km. 132.2 Sotogrande, Cádiz. Tel: 956 791 200

Open daily for dinner from 7.30pm. Galerías Paniagua. Sotogrande. Tel: 956 795 528

GREEK

IGuana grill Open Monday to Saturday for lunch and dinner, and for breakfast from Monday to Friday. CN340, km 189, Pinomar, Marbella. Tel: 952 830 735

Red Pepper

MARBELLA CLUB GRILL

Open daily for both lunch and dinner. Muelle Ribera, Puerto Banús. Tel: 952 812 148

Open every night for dinner. Marbella Club Hotel. Blvd. Príncipe Alfonso von Hohenlohe, s/n, Marbella. Tel: 952 822 211

GRILLS Asador Criollo Grill Open nightly for dinner. CN340-A7, km. 166, Cancelada, El Saladillo. Tel: 952 784 463

Asador guadalmina Open Monday to Saturday for lunch and dinner.

Urb. Guadalmina Alta, C.C. Guadalmina, Local 3, San Pedro de Alcántara. Tel: 952 883 003

Old Town Grill Open Monday to Saturday for dinner and Sunday for lunch. C/ San Lázaro, 3, Pza. Victoria, Marbella. Tel: 952 867 306

puente romano beach club Open every day for lunch. CN 340, km 177, Marbella. Tel: 952 820 900

RESTAURANTS

AMERICAN

ARABIC

ARGENTINEAN

Open for lunch and dinner from Tuesday to

Sunday. CN340, km.178, Marbella. Tel: 952 863 922

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iNGS LISTINGS LISTings Restaurante Rancho

Hotel Don Carlos), Marbella. Tel: 952 830 146

Open daily for lunch and dinner. Ctra. Cádiz, exit Las Chapas. Tel: 952 831 922

Taj Mahal

Tango Open daily for dinner except Tuesdays. Puerto Banús (opp. the car park). Tel: 952 812 358

INDIAN indian dreams Open every day for lunch and dinner. Avda. Duque de Ahumada, Paseo Marítimo 9, Marbella. Tel: 952 820 096

Jaipur purple Open daily for dinner except Tuesday. C.C. Costasol, local 3, Estepona. Tel: 952 888 353

Little India Open daily for dinner from 7pm. Conj. Buenavista, L 21-22, Avda. de España, Calahonda. Tel: 952 931 829

Massala

Open daily for lunch and dinner. Private parking available. Ctra. Cádiz, km 179 (behind Venta los Pacos).

Tel: 952 857 670/ 629 244 659

Taj Palace Open daily for lunch and dinner. C.C. La Cañada, local 151, Marbella. Tel: 952 779 715

INTERNATIONAL alminar Open Thursday to Monday for dinner. At the Kempinski Hotel Bahía Estepona. CN 340, km. 159, Estepona. Tel: 952 809 500

Amanhavis Open for dinner from Monday to Saturday from 8.00pm. Calle del Pilar 3, Benahavís. Tel: 952 856 026

Areté

San Luis s/n and Hotel Fuerte Miramar Spa, Plaza José Luque Manzano s/n, Marbella. Tel: 902 343 410

lunch and snacks. Centro de Negocios Puerta de Banús, local 22, Nueva Andalucía. Tel: 952 929 411

beach house

cortijo fain

Open daily for lunch and dinner. Urb. Coto de los Doles, Carril del Relojero, Elviria, Marbella. Tel: 952 839 458

Open every day for lunch and dinner. Ctra. de Algar, km. 3, Arcos de la Frontera, Cádiz. Tel: 956 704 131

boulevard

Open from 9am to 6pm. C/ Califa, Edif. La Maestranza, Nueva Andalucía. Tel: 952 907 876

Open for dinner from 8pm. Avda. La Fontanilla, esquina Paseo Marítimo, Marbella. Tel: 952 860 583

Brunings Open for dinner Monday to Saturday from 7 pm. Las Palmeras 19, San Pedro Alcántara. Tel: 952 786 156

bubbles Open daily for dinner and drinks from 7.30 pm. Plaza Antonio Banderas, Puerto Banús. Tel: 606 070 979

Buddha beach Open every day for lunch and dinner. Urb. Villa Marina, Nueva Andalucía, Marbella. Tel: 952 813 882

CAFÉ DEL MAR

Open daily for dinner. 57, Duquesa de Arcos (Sabinillas seafront). Tel: 952 897 358

Open every day except Sunday for lunch and dinner.

C/ Mediterráneo, Edif. Mediterráneo, 1 (next to Marisquería Santiago), Marbella. Tel: 952 777 334

Mughal village

Babilonia

Calima

Open every night for dinner. Urb. Torrenueva, Mijas Costa. Tel: 902 463 426

Open from Tuesday to Sunday. Ctra. de Istán, km. 0.8.

Tel: 952 828 861

Mumtaz

baboo lounge and restaurant

Open Tuesday to Sunday for lunch and dinner. Hotel Meliá Don Pepe, C/ José Meliá, s/n, Marbella. Tel: 952 764 252

Open daily for both lunch and dinner. Casa No.7, P. Banús. Tel: 952 812 090

Open every day for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Winter season: closed Sunday and Monday nights. Ctra.

Arroyo de la Miel, s/n, Benalmádena. Tel: 902 102 675

Casanis

beach club restaurante grill

Chic brunch & café

Open every day for lunch. Hotel Fuerte, Castillo de

Open Monday to Friday from 9am to 7pm for breakfast,

safFron Open from 7 pm ‘til late night every day. Parque de Elviria, local 7-9, Las Chapas (take second exit, after

Open daily for breakfast, lunch and dinner. CN 340, km. 166.5, Estepona. Tel: 952 889 040

Open every day from 6pm except Sundays. C/ Ancha, 8, Marbella. Tel: 952 900 450

Deli-icious

Don Leone Open every night for dinner. Puerto Banús, Marbella.

Tel: 952 811 716

Don MIGUEL Open for lunch from 1-4pm and dinner from 7-11pm Tuesday to Sunday. Closed Monday. C/ Ortega y Gasset 87, Marbella House, Marbella. Tel: 952 858 603

Don Quijote Open every evening for dinner (7pm-12am. Flamenco show on Sundays. Urb. El Rosario, km. 188, Marbella.

Tel: 952 834 748

El Bolero Open every night for dinner from 8-11pm. The San Roque Club, CN 340, km. 127, Cádiz. Tel: 956 613 030

El Corzo Open daily for dinner. Hotel Los Monteros, Ctra. de Cádiz, km. 187. Tel: 952 771 700

el fogón de elías Open Wednesday to Monday for lunch and dinner.

Bloque 7-8, Centro Diana CN 340, km 168.5, Estepona.

Tel: 952 884 977

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RESTAURANTS

INTERNATIONAL

iN EL MIRADOR Open for breakfast every day. At the Kempinski Hotel Bahía Resort. CN 340, km 159, Estepona. Tel: 952 809 500

EL OCEANO BEACH HOTEL

Finca El Forjador Open daily for lunch from 1-4pm, Wednesday to Sunday. Ctra. de Casares, km. 10. Tel: 952 895 120

Hotel LoRcrimar

La Galería

Open daily for breakfast, lunch and dinner. CN 340, km. 173, Nueva Andalucía. Tel: 952 906 105

Open daily for lunch and dinner. La Posada del Torcal, Ctra. La Joya, Villanueva de la Concepción, Málaga (near El Torqual park). Tel: 952 031 177

IVy

La Hacienda

Open daily for lunch and dinner. Ctra. Fuengirola-Mijas, between CN-340 and highway. Tel: 952 580 513

Open Monday to Saturday for lunch and dinner and on Sunday for lunch. The coffee shop opens for breakfast, lunch and dinner everyday. Urb. El Rosario, Club de Tenis el Casco, Marbella. Tel: 952 831 989

Fusion

Khala

La Loggia

Open Monday to Saturday for breakfast, lunch and dinner and Sunday for dinner. Entrance to El Rosario, in front of Las Chapas school, Marbella. Tel: 952 839 910

Open Mondays to Saturday from 8.30pm to midnight.

NH Alanda Hotel, Marbella. Tel: 952 899 600

Garum Open for breakfast, lunch and dinner every day. Paseo marítimo, Avda. de la Fontanilla, Marbella. Tel: 952 858 858

Open Tuesday to Saturday for lunch and dinner and on Sunday for lunch only. Ctra. Ronda, km. 46, Urb. Las Medranas, local 4, San Pedro de Alcántara. Tel: 951 275 750

Open daily for breakfast, lunch and afternoon snacks.

Hotel Villa Padierna & Flamingos Golf Club, Ctra. de Cádiz, km. 166 (Cancelada exit), Benahavís. Tel: 952 889 150

hermosa

LA CANTINA DEL GOLF

Open from 1-3.30pm and 8-11.30pm. Closed Mondays. Arena Beach, Ctra. de Cádiz, km. 151.2, Estepona. Tel: 952 792 734

Open every day for dinner from 8pm-4am. Hotel Andalucía Plaza s/n, Marbella. Tel: 952 814 000

Open Tuesday to Sunday for dinner from 7pm. Closed Monday. Local 1A. Puerto de Cabopino. Tel: 952 837 483

Open for breakfast and lunch until 8pm. Closed Sunday. Flamingo Golf Club, Cancelada, Benahavís. Tel: 951 318 815

Open everyday lunch and dinner. Golf Hotel Guadalmina, Marbella. Tel: 952 882 211

El rincón de gVadalpín

Herrero del Puerto

La LUNA DE LA Câbane

La veranda lobby bar

Open for lunch Friday to Sunday and dinner Tuesday to Saturday. Closed Monday. C/ Edgar Neville, s/n, Nueva Andalucía, Marbella. Tel: 952 929 001

Open Monday to Saturday for lunch and dinner. Casas de Campos, 1, Málaga. Tel: 952 122 075

Open seven days a week for lunch and dinner. Urb. Los Monteros, CN 340, km. 187, Marbella. Tel: 952 823 846

Open every day for lunch and dinner. At the Kempinski Hotel Bahía Estepona. CN 340, km 159, Estepona. Tel: 952 809 500

Fabiola

Open Monday to Saturday for dinner and Sunday for lunch. C.C. San Roque Club A-7, exit 27, Cádiz. Tel: 956 613 203

La Esencia

La Verandah

Open Tuesday to Sunday for dinner. Hotel Incosol, Urb. Golf Rio Real, s/n, Marbella. Tel: 952 831 303

hotel marbella club buffet

la fonda de marbella

Open every day for lunch. Blvd. Príncipe Alfonso von Hohenlohe s/n, Marbella. Tel: 952 822 211

Open every night for dinner. C/ Los Caballeros, 4-6, Old Town, Marbella. Tel: 952 903 288

Open week days for dinner at 7:30pm and weekends for lunch and dinner, closed Tuesdays. Ctra. de Cádiz, km. 136. Playa Guadiaro, Torre-guadiaro, Cádiz. Tel: 956 615 998

Open for lunch and dinner daily. CN 340, km 199, Urb. Torrenueva, Mijas Costa. Tel:952 587 550

EL OLIVO Open Monday to Saturday for lunch and dinner and Sunday for lunch. At Marbella Golf & Country Club. CN 340, km. 188, Marbella. Tel: 952 830 500

El Patio de los Perfumes Open daily for dinner. C/Aduar 1, Casco antiguo, Marbella. Tel: 952 828 650

El Relicario Open from Mon. to Sat. for dinner. C/La Concha 11, El Ingenio, San Pedro Alcántara. Tel: 952 788 686

El Restaurante del Casino

Open Tuesday to Saturday for lunch and dinner and on Sundays for lunch. Cortijo Los Canos, Pueblo Nuevo de Guadiaro, CN-340, km. 132, Sotogrande, Cádiz. Tel: 956 695 114 / 619 694 484

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Open daily for lunch and dinner. Urb. Rio Verde Alto, s/n. Tel: 952 861 382

Finca las brasas

HIBISCUS

LA biznaga

Open for lunch and dinner Wednesday to Sunday. Ctra. de Cádiz, km. 193, Hacienda Las Chapas, Marbella. Tel: 952 831 267 / 831 116

La Menorah

La Terraza

Lee’s bistro

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iNGS LISTINGS LISTings Open Monday to Saturday for lunch and every night for dinner. C.C. Guadalmina, Local 8, Edif.

Barclays, Marbella. Tel: 952 928 610

Open every day for lunch. Playa Hotel Don Carlos. CN 340, km 192, Marbella. Tel: 952 836 239

Hohenlohe 11, Marbella. Tel: 952 900 380

magna café

novelli’s

Open every day for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

C/ Calderón de la Barca, s/n. Tel: 952 929 578

Open every day for lunch and dinner. Hotel Locrimar, CN 340, km 173, Nueva Andalucía, Marbella. Tel: 952 929 269

Open every night for dinner. Urb. La Alcazaba, CN340, km 175, Puerto Banús. Tel: 952 816 100

max beach

polynesian’s restaurant & cocktail bar

Puro Beach

Open every day for lunch and dinner except Mondays. CN340, km 198, Riviera (cambio de sentido), Mijas Costa. Tel: 952 937 780

Ocean club Open every day for lunch and dinner. Avda.

Lola Flores s/n, Marbella. Tel: 952 908 137

Open every day for lunch and dinner. CN 340, km 159, E15 Exit, Estepona Este (beside Kempinski Resort Hotel). Tel: 952 316 699

Mc café

Ombú

Relais de Paris

Open every day for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Marbella Club Hotel. Blvd. Príncipe Alfonso von Hohenlohe, s/n. Tel: 952 822 211

Open from Wednesday to Sunday for dinner.

Hotel Don Carlos. CN 340, km 192, Marbella.

Tel: 952 768 800

Open Tuesday to Sunday for lunch and dinner.

Paseo marítimo Benabola, s/n. Tel: 952 819 078

Mesana

OCHO

Restaurante al bacar

Open daily for dinner. Creative Cuisine. Gran Hotel Gvadalpín, Blvd. Príncipe Alfonso de Hohenlohe, s/n, Marbella. Tel: 952 899 400

Open Tuesday to Sunday for lunch and dinner.

C/ Moncayo 12, Fuengirola. Tel: 952 460 232 / 648 502 822

Open Friday for dinner and Saturday and Sunday for lunch and dinner. El Castillo de Monda s/n, Monda. Tel: 952 457 142

Messina

Ogilvy & Mailer

Rest. Galeria San Pedro

Open for dinner Monday to Saturday. Avda.

Severo Ochoa, 12, Marbella. Tel: 952 864 895

Open everyday for lunch and dinner, except Tuesday and Sunday evenings. Los Naranjos Country Club, Nueva Andalucía. Tel: 952 815 398

Open from 11am until midnight. Closed Sundays. Avda Las Palmeras 15, San Pedro Alcántara. Tel: 952 780 927

oyarbide

Open every day for lunch and dinner except Sunday. C/ Granada, 44, Málaga. Tel: 952 227 486

messina puerto banús Open every day for lunch and dinner except for Sunday. C/Ramón Areces, Complejo Marina Banús. Tel: 952 815 840

Miraflores Golf Restaurant Open daily for Breakfast, lunch and dinner. Ctra. de Cádiz, km. 199. Urb. Riviera Golf. Tel: 952 931 941

Nikki beach

Open Tuesday to Saturday for lunch and dinner and on Sunday for lunch. C/ Acera de la Marina 4, Marbella. Tel: 952 772 461

polo house Open daily for lunch and dinner, with club/ dancing. CN 340, Blvd. Príncipe Alfonso von

Restaurante Rojo

Restaurante La Terraza Open daily for dinner. La Cala Resort, La Cala de Mijas, Mijas. Tel: 952 669 000

Restaurante los bandidos

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Oriental

roca tranquila

Terra Sana

Open every day for lunch and dinner except Monday.

Urb. Torreblanca de Sol, C/ Tortola, Fuengirola. Tel: 952 196 067

Open Monday to Saturday for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Nueva Andalucía next to the Casino. Tel: 952 906 205. Golden Mile, Marbella. Tel: 952 777 480.

Terra Sana Express@ ILounge. Avda Antonio Belón, 1, Marbella. Tel: 952 901 274

RESTAURANTS

INTERNATIONAL

ITALIAN

Open every night for dinner. Muelle Ribera, Puerto Banús.Tel: 952 815 915

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Restaurante Swing Open from 12-4pm and 7.30pm until midnight. Closed Wednesdays. Arena Beach, Ctra. de Cádiz, km. 151, Estepona. Tel: 952 796 320

schilo Open Thursday to Saturday for dinner. Hotel Finca Cortesín. Crta. Casares s/n, Casares, Málaga. Tel: 952 937 800

sentidos Open every day for lunch and dinner. At Sentidos en Río Real Hotel. Urb. Río Real s/n, Marbella. Tel: 952 765 732

Skina Open for dinner Monday to Saturday. C/ Aduar 12, Old Town, Marbella. Tel: 952 765 277

Small world café Open Monday to Saturday for lunch and dinner. C.C. Le Village, local 15, Ctra. Istán km. 1, Marbella. Tel: 952 771 046

Starz Open Monday to Saturday for breakfast and lunch.

Centro Plaza, kiosko 3, Nueva Andalucía, Marbella.

Tel: 952 816 313

SUi-to

Dinner and afterwards dance to music by resident DJ. Thursday to Saturday. Hotel Puente Romano, Marbella. Tel: 952 820 900

tanino Open daily for breakfast, lunch and dinner. CN 340, km.168, Benamara, Estepona. Tel: 952 883 259

The Clubhouse Bar & Brasserie

Zozoï

Da Bruno

Open every day for dinner from 7.30pm-12.30am.

Plaza Altamirano, 1, Marbella. Tel: 952 858 868

Open all day. Pasta Da Bruno: Avda. Ricardo Soriano, 27, Marbella. Tel: 952 860 348 – closed on Sunday. Da Bruno Cabopino: CN-340 Km. 194,7. Tel: 952 831 918.

Da Bruno a Casa: Marbella Mar, Local 1, Marbella.

Tel: 952 857 521 – closed on Sunday.Da Bruno A San Pedro: Avda. del Mar, local 1E,San Pedro. Tel: 952 786 860 – closed on Monday. Da Bruno Sul Mare: Edif. Skol, Paseo Marítimo, Marbella. Tel: 952 903 318/19

ITALIAN Al Dente Open 7 days a week for dinner. Closed on Mondays.

Urb. Jardines del Puerto, local 12, Puerto Banús. Tel: 952 906 181

Amore e Fantasía Open every day for lunch and dinner from 7pm onwards. Muelle Benabola, Casa 5A, Puerto Banús. Tel: 952 813 464

Open Tuesday to Sunday for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Urb. Los Naranjos de Marbella, Nueva Andalucía. Tel: 952 908 844

Aretusa

The far isle

bora bora beach club

Open every day for breakfast, lunch and dinner except Tuesday. Edif. Lubina Sol, Riviera Exit, CN 340, km. 198, Marbella. Tel: 952 935 039

Open every day for lunch and dinner except Tuesday.

Avda. del Mediterráneo, San Pedro de Alcántara. Tel: 952 789 100

The orange tree

carpaccio

Open every evening from 6:30 pm-11 pm. Plaza General Chinchilla 1, Plaza de los Naranjos, Marbella.

Tel: 952 924 613.

Open every day for lunch and dinner. Muelle Ribera, Local 6, Puerto Banús. Tel: 952 813 357

Tikitano Beach Restaurant Open daily for lunch and dinner. Guadalmansa, Ctra. de Cádiz, km. 164, Estepona. Tel: 952 792 820

Open for dinner from Monday to Saturday 7pm until midnight. Avda. de la Constitución, corner C/ Andalucía, San Pedro de Alcántara. Tel: 952 782 293

trocadero playa

Casa Nostra

Open every day for lunch and dinner. Playa Santa Petronilla, km 178, Marbella. Tel: 610 704 144

Open daily for both lunch and dinner. C/Camilo José Cela 12, Marbella. Tel: 952 861 108

Open daily for dinner. Front line P. Banús. Tel: 952 812 898

Caruso

Dalli’s Pasta & Pizza Factory Open daily for both lunch and dinner. Pasta Factory: Second Line Puerto Banús. Tel: 952 812 490, Paseo de Reding, 43, Málaga. Tel: 952 217 078 Pizza Factory: Puerto Banús. Tel: 952 818 623

Da Paolo Open everyday for lunch and dinner. Muelle Ribera, casa G-H, local 43, Puerto Banús. Tel: 952 816 453

De Medici Open Monday to Saturday for dinner. Urb. El Pilar, C.C. Benapilar, Estepona. Tel: 952 884 687

gold restaurant Open every day from 10am to 12 am. Complejo Benabola 13, Beach Side, Puerto Banús. Tel: 952 929 055

la brisa Open every night for dinner. Kempinski Hotel Bahía Estepona. CN 340, km. 159, Estepona. Tel: 952 809 500

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iNGS LISTINGS LISTings Open every day for lunch and dinner from 1pm to midnight. Puerto Deportivo de Estepona.

Tel: 952 802 144

pizza real

LA pappardella sul mare

Pizzeria Picasso

Open every day for lunch and dinner. C.C. Laguna Village, Estepona. Tel: 952 807 354

Open daily from 12 noon. Puerto Banús. Tel: 952 813 669

Leonardo da vinci

portofino laguna village

Open every night for dinner. Urb. Doña Lola, Local 21-22, Calahonda, Mijas Costa. Tel: 952 934 667

Open every day for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

C.C. Laguna Village, Estepona. Tel: 952 808 035

Lombardo’s Open daily from 7pm. Galerías Paniagua, Sotogrande, Cádiz. Tel: 956 795 924

Open daily for dinner. Beach Club, Hotel Puente Romano, CN-340, km 177.5, Marbella. Tel: 952 820 900

Luna Rossa

Rosmarino della Piazza

Open daily for both lunch and dinner, closed on Sundays. Paseo Marítimo Benabola, local 12, Puerto Banús. Tel: 952 810 543

Open Sunday to Friday for lunch and dinner and Saturday for dinner. C.C. Pinares de Elviria, s/n, Elviria, Marbella. Tel: 952 850 148

MADE IN SARDINIA

terraza dual

Open every night for dinner. C.C. Cristamar, Avda. Julio Iglesias, Puerto Banús. Tel: 952 906 608

Open every day for lunch and dinner. C.C. Marbellamar s/n, Marbella. Tel: 952 925 250

Open everyday for lunch and dinner. At the Hotel Westin La Quinta. Urb. La Quinta, s/n, Nueva Andalucía. Tel: 952 762 059

saleto

Kaiden Sushi

Marco dallis Open daily for dinner. Avda. Fontanilla, Marbella.

Tel: 952 776 776

Open Monday to Saturday for dinner. Avda. del Prado, Via 1, local 2, Aloha Golf, Nueva Andalucía. Tel: 952 818 112

Open daily for lunch and dinner. Centro Com. Guadalmina Alta, Guadalmina 4, local 2, lower floor, San Pedro de Alcántara. Tel: 952 896 508

Metro

Villa Tiberio

Kama Kura

Open every day for lunch and dinner. Puerto Banús. Tel: 952 907 037, Puerto Marina, Benalmádena. Tel: 952 446 460

Open Monday to Saturday for dinner. Ctra. de Cádiz, km. 178, Marbella. Tel: 952 771 799

Open Tuesday to Saturday from 8-11pm. The San Roque Club, Ctra. de Cádiz, km. 127, San Roque, Cádiz. Tel: 956 613 030

Pizza Marzano

Open every night for dinner except Sunday.

C/Gloria II, 11, Casco Antiguo, Marbella. Tel: 952 863 125

Open every day for lunch and dinner. C/ Ramón Areces, local 7, Puerto Banús. Tel: 952 810 448

Open every day from 12pm until late. C.C. Pino Golf Don Carlos, Elviria. Tel: 952 850 039

Ristorante Roberto

zafferano

lebanese marrush Open every day for lunch and dinner. Complejo Cine Gran Marbella, Marbella. Tel: 952 814 819

Oriental Asia Food Open seven days a week for lunch and dinner.

Centro Comercial, Pinares de Elviria, Marbella.

Tel: 952 850 060

Dragón de Oro Open every day from 12.30-4pm and 7pm until midnight. Closed Monday lunchtime. Ctra. de Cádiz, km. 141, Urb. Hacienda Guadalupe, Manilva. Tel: 952 890 956

Kaede

meca Open every day for lunch and dinner. C.C. Pino Golf, Don Carlos, Local 1, Elviria, Marbella. Tel:

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952 830 365 / 658 646 829

Naga Open daily for lunch and dinner. Locales 18-21, C.C. Cristamar, Puerto Banús. Tel: 952 815 319

CINEMAS

Osaka Open every day 13:30-16:00 & 19:30-24:00. CN-340, km. 166 (Benavista). C.C. Costa del Sol. Tel: 952 885 751

RestaurantE asiático Bangkok

CASINOS

Open daily for lunch and dinner. P. de las Orquideas, C/ Iris, 11B, Edif. Excelsior no. 1, Nueva Andalucía. Tel: 952 813 603

Sakura Open every day for lunch and dinner. Avda. Jardines del Puerto, L.5, Puerto Banús. Tel: 952 817 536

Sapporo

SPANISH

Open daily for lunch and dinner. C.C. Costa del Sol, upper level. CN-340, km. 166 (Estepona). Tel: 952 888 710

shangai express

SNACKS

Open for dinner Tuesday to Saturday. At the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Urb. Benamara, Avda. Dos Hermanas, CN 340, km. 168, Estepona. Tel: 951 055 531

Sukho Thai Open for dinner from Monday to Saturday. Centro Comercial Marbellamar. Tel: 952 770 550

Sushi des artistes

SCANDINAVIAN

SEAFOOD

Open every evening for dinner and Wednesday to Sunday for lunch. CN 340, km 178.5, Marbella. Easy parking. Tel: 952 857 403

Open daily for lunch and dinner. Paseo Marítimo, 5, Marbella. Tel: 952 770 078

Cipriano Open daily for both lunch and dinner. Playas del Duque, Puerto Banús. Tel: 952 811 077

El Barlovento Open from 11am-4pm and 7.30-11pm every day except Mondays. Puerto Deportivo de Sotogrande, Cádiz. Tel: 956 790 370

Restaurante La Marina Open every day from 1-4.30pm and 8pm until midnight. Paseo Marítimo s/n, La Atunara, La Linea de la Concepción, Campo de Gibraltar. Tel: 956 171 531

La Torre Open daily for lunch and dinner. Muelle de Honor, Club de Mar, Puerto Banús. Tel: 952 811 561

Marisquería La Pesquera Open daily for lunch and dinner. Plaza de la Victoria, Old Town, Marbella. Tel: 952 765 170

RestaurantE Eddy & Marisa’s Open for breakfast and lunch from 9am - 6pm.Urb. Coral Beach, The Golden Mile, Marbella. Tel: 952 824 534

Restaurante El bote Open every day for lunch and dinner. Paseo Marítimo Rey de España, Fuengirola. Tel: 952 660 084

Open for lunch from Monday to Friday and for dinner from Monday to Saturday. C/Ramón Gómez de la Serna, 5, Marbella. Tel: 952 863 193

SNACKS & Brasseries

Tai Pan

Megabowl and Sports Bar

Open seven days a week for dinner. H. Puente Romano, Ctra. de Cádiz, km. 177, Marbella. Tel: 952 777 893

Open seven days a week from midday until late. C.C. La Cañada, 1ª planta, Marbella. Tel: 902 232 999

Thai-china Open daily for lunch and dinner except for Tuesday lunch. CN 340, km 197, Calahonda. Tel: 952 939 017

Thai Gallery

RESTAURANTS

SEAFOOD Asador Santiago

Sushi Katsura

SPANISH Buenaventura Open every day for lunch and dinner. Plaza de la Iglesia, 5, Old Town, Marbella. Tel: 952 858 069

Open seven days a week for dinner from 8pm. CN340, km.175, Edif. Rimesa, Bajos, Nueva Andalucía.

Tel: 952 818 392

Casa de la era

Wok Away

Casa Fernando

Open every day for lunch and dinner. Avda. Julio Iglesias, Puerto Banús. Tel: 952 907 304

Open from Monday to Saturday for lunch and dinner.

Avda. del Mediterráneo s/n, San Pedro de Alcántara.

Tel: 952 853 344

Wok Buffet Open every day for lunch and dinner. Urb. El Pilar, 22, Estepona. Tel: 952 887 092

Wok Wang Open every day for lunch and dinner. C/ Camilo José Cela, C.C. Plaza del Mar, planta 0, local 1, Marbella.

Tel: 952 925 478

Yuan Open every night for dinner. Hotel Torrequebrada, Benalmádena Costa. Tel: 952 441 414.

SCANDINAVIAN Skandies Open Tuesday to Sunday from 7pm to 11pm. Closed Mondays. Avda. Antonio Belón, 26 (behind the

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Open every evening for dinner. Ctra. de Ojén, km 0.5, Marbella. Tel: 952 770 625

Hacienda Open from 1-4.30pm and 7.30 -11pm. Closed on Sunday afternoons and Mondays. Urb. La Alcaidesa, La Linea de la Concepción. Tel: 956 582 700

La Meridiana Open for lunch and dinner from Tuesday to Sunday.

Closed Mondays. Camino de la Cruz, Marbella. Tel: 952 776 190

La Taberna del Alabardero Open everyday for lunch and dinner except Monday.

San Pedro Playa, Urb. Castiglone. Tel: 952 785 138.

Also at Ctra. de Ronda, km. 167, San Pedro. Tel: 952 786 265

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iNGS LISTINGS LISTings Open for dinner from Monday to Sunday. Hotel Villa Padierna & Flamingos Golf Club. Ctra. de Cádiz, km.

166 (Cancelada exit), Benahavís. Tel: 952 889 150

18 holes, Par 72. Tel: 952 595 970. www.alhauringolf.com

Mesón el adobe

27 holes, Par 72. Tel: 956 582 027. www.sotogrande.com

Open daily for lunch and dinner except Tuesdays.

Avda. La Fontanilla, Edif. Balmoral, Bajo 3, Marbella.

Tel. 600 003 144

Tragabuches Open from Tuesday to Sunday for both lunch and dinner. C/José Aparacio,1, Ronda (pedestrian street between bullring and Parador). Tel: 952 190 291

Almenara Golf

Aloha Golf Club 18 holes. Tel: 952 907 085. www.clubdegolfaloha.com

Atalaya Golf 18 holes, Par 72. Tel: 952 882 812. www.master-hotels.com

Cabopino Golf

CASINOS

18 holes, Par 70. Tel: 952 850 282

Club de Golf La Cañada

Casino Nueva Andalucía

18 holes, Par 71. Tel: 956 794 100

Hotel Andalucía Plaza, Km153. N. Andalucía T: 952 814 000

El Paraiso Club de Golf

Casino San Roque

Estepona Golf

CN340, Km124, San Roque T:956 780 100

Casino Torrequebrada

18 holes, Par 72. Tel: 952 937 605. www.esteponagolf.com

CN340, Km220, Benalmádena T: 952 446 000

Finca cortesín golf club

CINEMAS & THEATRES

18 holes, Par 71. Tel: 952 883 835

18 holes, Par 72, Tel: 952 937 883. www.golfcortesin.es

Flamingos Golf Club

AUDITORIO MUNICIPAL MIJAS

18 holes, Par. Tel: 952 889 157. www.flamingos-golf.com

Plaza de la Libertad 2. Mijas. Tel: 952 590 380

Golf Río Real

AUDITORIO MUNICIPAL TORREMOLINOS

18 holes, Par 72. Tel: 952 756 733

Plaza de España, Recinto Ferial. Tel: 952 379 521

Golf Torrequebrada

AUDITORIO PARQUE DE LA CONSTITUCIÓN

18 holes, Par 72. Tel: 952 442 742

Marbella. Tel: 952 825 035

Guadalmina Golf

CENTRO CULTURAL EL INGENIO

36 holes, Par 72. Tel: 952 883 375

Garcia Morato, s/n. San Pedro. Tel: 952 786 968

La Cala Golf Resort

CINESA LA CAÑADA La Cañada. Marbella. Tel: 902 333 231

54 holes, Pars 71, 72 and 73.

Tel: 952 669 033. www.lacala.com

MARBELLA MULTICINES

La Dama de Noche

Puerto Banús. Tel: 952 816 421

9 holes, Par 70. Tel: 952 818 150

MULTICINES ALFIL

La Duquesa Golf & Country Club

Avda. Camilo José Cela, s/n. Fuengirola.

Tel: 952 800 056

18 holes, Par 72. Tel: 952 890 425

MULTICINES MEDITERRÁNEO Mijas. Tel: 952 663 738

27 holes, Par 72.Tel: 952 762 390 www.laquintagolf.com

PALACIO DE LA PAZ

La Reserva Sotogrande

Recinto Ferial. Fuengirola. Tel: 952 589 349

18 holes. Tel: 956 695 209

TEATRO ALAMEDA

La Zagaleta Golf & Country Club

Calle Córdoba 9, Málaga. Tel: 952 213 412

18 holes. Members only. Tel: 952 695 209

TEATRO CERVANTES

Lauro Golf 18 holes

Ramos Marín, 199, Málaga. Tel: 952 224 109

Alhaurín de la Torre. Tel: 952 412 767

TEATRO CIUDAD DE MARBELLA

Los Arqueros Golf & Country Club

Plaza Ramón Martínez, Marbella. Tel: 952 903 159

18 holes, Par 71. Tel: 952 784 600

TEATRO SALON VARIETES

Los Naranjos Golf Club

Emancipación 30. Fuengirola. Tel: 952 474 542

18 holes, Par 72. Tel: 952 815 206

VERACRUZ CINES

Marbella Club Golf Resort

Veracruz. Estepona. Tel: 952 800 056

18 holes, Par 73. Tel: 952 113 239

YELMO CINEPLEX

Marbella Golf & Country Club

Plaza Mayor. Tel: 902 902 103

18 holes. Tel: 952 830 500

La Quinta Golf

Mijas Golf

GOLF GUIDE

36 holes, Par 70. Tel: 952 476 843

Miraflores Golf

Alcaidesa Links

18 holes, Par 71. Tel: 952 931 960

18 holes, Par 71. Tel: 956 791 0400. www.alcaidesa.com

Monte Mayor Golf & Country Club

Alhaurín Golf

Parador Málaga del Golf

18 holes. Tel: 952 113 088

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GYMS

HOTELS

iN 18 holes. Tel: 952 381 255

CENTRO PLAZA GYM

SEVEN STARS SCHOOL

Real Club de Golf Las Brisas

Nueva Andalucía. Tel: 952 817 074

18 holes, Par 72. Tel: 952 810 875

CLUB DE SOL

Tai Chi & yoga. Pasaje Estrecho, Estepona.

Tel: 952 923 055

Real Club de Golf Sotogrande 18 holes, Par 72. Tel: 956 785 014

Tennis /paddle classes. Calahonda.

Tel: 952 939 595

San Roque Club

FITNESS CENTRE NEW STYLE

18 holes, Par 72. Tel: 956 613 030

Amapolas, s/n Nueva Andalucía.

Tel: 952 817 916

SPORTING CLUB ALHAMAR

Santa Clara Golf 18 holes. Tel: 952 850 111

GIMNASIO ESTADIO

Santa Maria Golf & Country Club

SPORTING CLUB ATALAYA PARK HOTEL

18 holes, Par 72. Tel: 952 831 036

Trav. Huerta de los Cristales, Marbella.

Tel: 952 828 217

Sotogrande Club de Golf

HAPPY DIVER’S CLUB

TICKET-TO-RIDE

18 holes. Tel: 956 785 012

Atalaya Park Hotel, Marbella. Tel: 609 571 920

Cristamar, Pto. Banús. Tel: 952 905 082

Valderrama

HOTEL PUENTE ROMANO

18 holes, Par 72. Tel: 956 791 200 www.valderrama.com

CN340, Km77,5. Marbella. Tel: 952 820 900

MANOLO SANTANA RACQUETS CLUB

SPORTCLUB ROUTE 66 Ctra. Mijas, 1.5km. Fuengirola.

Tel: 952 461 648 C.C. Alhamar. Calahonda. Tel: 952 934 684

CN340, Km 168,5. Estepona. Tel: 952 888 212

HOTELS

Ctra. de Istán, Km2. Marbella. Tel: 952 778 580

MARBELLA GUN & COUNTRY CLUB

Almenara Golf Hotel & Spa

Monda. Tel: 952 112 161

MARBELLA SPORT

Avda. Almenara s/n. Sotogrande.

Tel: 956 582 000

ALHAMAR GYM

Km171.5. San Pedro Alcántara.Tel: 952 788 315

Coral Beach

C.C. Alhamar, CN-340 km 197. Tel: 952 934 684

MULTI SPORT

Golden Mile. Marbella. Tel: 952 824 500

ATENAS

Avda. Picasso 27. San Pedro. Tel: 952 782 801

Gran Hotel Elba & Thalasso Spa

Barquilla 1. Marbella. Tel: 952 776 240

02 CENTRO WELLNESS

Urb. Arena Beach. Estepona. Tel: 952 794 308

AZTEC COUNTRY CLUB

Plaza del Mar. Marbella. Tel: 952 900 420

Gran Hotel Playabella

Urb. Riviera del Sol, Mijas-Costa.

Tel: 952 934 477

P-E SPORTS CLUB

Urb. Costalita. Estepona. Tel: 952 880 868

Gran Meliá Don Pepe

CENTRO DEPORTIVO EL FUERTE

Urb. Parcelas del Golf, Aloha Gardens, N.Andalucía. Tel: 952 818 357

Av. El Fuerte s/n. Marbella. Tel: 952 861 624

SATURNIA REGNA

Hotel Don Carlos

CENTRO DE YOGA Y SALUD INTEGRAL

Marbella Tel: 952 761 475, Elviria.

Tel: 952 834 835

CN340, Km192. Marbella. Tel: 952 831 140

GYMS & SPORTS CLUBS

Ramón y Cajal 21. Marbella. Tel: 952 773 804

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José Meliá s/n. Marbella. Tel: 952 770 300

Hotel El Paraíso

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iNGS LISTINGS LISTings CN340, Km167. Estepona. Tel: 952 883 000

AGH Estepona

Spa & Beauty Miramar. Tel: 952 920 000

Hotel La Cala Golf

CN340, Km 166.5, Estepona. Tel: 952 889 040

Hotel Fuerte Miramar Spa

La Cala de Mijas Tel: 952 669 000

Alanda Carib Playa

Hotel Puente Romano

CN340, Km 194. Tel: 952 902 537

Pl. José Luque Manzano. Marbella. Tel: 952 768 400. Spa & Beauty Miramar. Tel: 952 768 410

CN340, Km179. Marbella. Tel: 952 820 900

Alanda Club Marbella

Hotel Marbella Playa

Hotel Torrequebrada

CN340 Km192. Marbella. Tel: 952 902 537

CN340, Km189. Marbella. Tel: 952 831 345

Avda. del Sol s/n, Benalmádena Costa.

Tel: 952 446 000

Amanhavís Hotel & Restaurant

Hotel Meliá Marbella

C/ Pilar 3. Benahavís. Tel: 952 856 026

CN340, Km175. Pto. Banús. Tel: 952 810 500

Hotel Triton

Atalaya Park Hotel

Hotel Playa Bonita

Avda. Antonio Marchado, 29. Benalmádena Costa. Tel: 952 443 240

CN340, Km168,5. Estepona. Tel: 952 889 000

CN340, Km217. Benalmádena Costa.

Tel: 952 442 840

Hotel Westin La Quinta Golf Resort

C/ de Granadillas, s/n. Urb. Guadalmina Alta, Marbella. Tel: 952 889 099

Hotel Princess Playa

Urb. La Quinta s/n. Marbella. Tel: 952 762 000

Beatriz Palace & Spa

Hotel Riu Rincón Andaluz

Incosol Hotel Medical Spa

CN340, Km207. Fuengirola. Tel: 952 922 000

Urb. Golf Rio Real s/n. Marbella. Tel: 952 828 500

Benabola Apart Hotel

CN340, Km173. N. Andalucía.

Tel: 952 811 517

Benabola. Puerto Banús. Tel: 952 815 000

Hotel Selenza

Kempinski Resort Hotel

CALEDONIA GOLF Aparthotel & spa

CN340, Km159. Estepona. Tel: 952 809 500

CN340, Km165, Estepona.

Tel: 952 899 499

Las Dunas Beach Hotel & Spa

CN340, km 165, Cancelada exit. Estepona.

Tel: 952 889 999

CN340, Km163,5. Estepona. Tel: 952 794 345

El Oceano Beach Hotel

Los Monteros CN340, Km187. Marbella. Tel: 952 771 700

CN340, Km199. Miraflores Playa.

Tel: 952 587 550

Marbella Club Hotel

Golf Hotel Guadalmina

CN340, Km180. Marbella. Tel: 952 822 211

Guadalmina Baja. Marbella. Tel: 952 882 211

C/ Almenara s/n, Sotogrande.

Tel: 956 582 000

NH Alanda Hotel & Spa

Gran Hotel Benahavis

NH Marbella

CN340, Km176,6. Marbella. Tel: 952 899 600

Huerta de Rufino, Benahavís. Tel: 902 504 862

Villa Padierna

HM gran hotel costa del sol

C/ Conde Rudi, s/n. CN340, Km178. Marbella.

Tel: 952 763 200

CN340, Km166, Exit Cancelada. Benahavís.

Tel: 952 889 150

La Cala de Mijas, Mijas Costa. Tel: 952 587 710

NH SAN PEDRO

Hotel El Fuerte

C/ Jerez 1, San Pedro de Alcántara. Tel: 952 853 040

barceló golf

Avda. El Fuerte, s/n. Marbella. Tel: 952 861 500.

Paseo Marítimo. Marbella. Tel: 952 820 944

H10 Andalucía Plaza CN340 Km 174. Nueva Andalucía. Tel: 952 812 000

NH almenara golf

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tourist offices

iN Parador de Ronda

Fuengirola

Torremolinos

Plaza de España, s/n. Ronda. Tel: 952 877 500

Recinto Ferial (close to the CN340, on the same side as the bullring), 9am-2:30pm

El Calvario, near Town Hall, 9am-1pm

CN340, Km185, Urb. Golf Rio Real s/n. Marbella.

Tel: 952 765 732

Wednesday Alhaurín de la Torre. Avda. del Limón, 9am-2pm

By the sports pavilion, in the Divina Pastora district, 9am-2pm

Sunset Beach Club

Benalmádena Costa

Friday

Avda. del Sol, 5. Benalmádena Costa. Tel: 952 579 400

(Second hand items) Recinto Ferial, 10am-2pm

Rincón de la Victoria, Málaga.

Plaza de la Iglesia, 9am-1pm

Tamisa Golf Hotel

La Cala

Benalmádena

Puerto Deportivo, 9am-1pm

Camino Viejo de Coín. Km 3.3.

Mijas Golf. Tel: 952 585 988

Recinto Ferial, 9am-1pm

Sotogrande

Calypso, 9am-2pm

In the area between Tivoli World and the Plaza San Pedro, 9am-1pm

HOTEL PYR MARBELLA

Istán

Las Chapas

Avda. Rotary International, s/n, Puerto Banús. Tel: 952 817

At the entrance to the town, 9am-2pm

La Víbora, 9am-2pm

Estepona

Calypso, 9am-2pm

Avda. Juan Carlos II, 9am-2:30 pm

Saturday Maro

street markets

SENTIDOS Hotel

street markets Monday Marbella

HOTELS

Fairground (Avda. de Juan Alameda), 9am-2:30pm

Thursday Alhaurín El Grande By the Guardia Civil Offfices, City Centre, 9am-1pm

Calahonda

Close to the Nerja Caves, 9am-1pm

Coín

Vélez Málaga

C/ Urbano Pineda, 9am-1pm

Opposite the Guardi Civil Offices, City Centre, 9am-1pm

La Cala

Torre del Mar

Mijas Costa

Nerja

Avda. Europa, 9am-1pm

Las Lagunas, 9am-2pm

C/ Chaparil, 9am-1pm

Málaga

Puerto Banús

Churriana

Opposite the Guardia Civil Offices, City Centre. 9am-1pm

Near bullring, 9am-1pm

Tuesday Monda. C/ Los Huertos, 8am-2:30pm

9am-1pm

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San Pedro

Recinto Ferial, 9am-1pm

Nueva Andalucía

Next to the bullring. Park near CN340 and walk upwards, 9am-1pm

Sunday Fuengirola.

Recinto Ferial, 9am-2:30pm

Málaga Next to Rosaleda football stadium, 9am-2pm

Estepona

At the Marina, 9am-1pm

tourist offices Benahavís Tel: 952 855 500 Benalmádena Tel: 952 442 494 Estepona Tel: 952 802 002 Fuengirola Tel: 952 467 625 Gibraltar Tourist Board Tel: 956 774 950 Marbella Tel: 952 822 818 Málaga Tel: 952 213 445 / 952 216 061 Mijas Tel: 952 485 900 Ronda Tel: 952 871 272 San Pedro Tel: 952 785 252 Tarifa Tel: 956 680 993 Torremolinos Tel: 952 381 578

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Wide Range Of Fresh Sushi On a New Style Conveyor Belt

Japanese Restaurant Marbella

Coming Soon New Chic Sushi Restaurant With Terrace

Opposite Dreamers Centro Comercial Puerta De Banus

KIDS KIDS KIDS KIDS family fun

Tel: 952 575 697

Crocodile Park Pose with the offspring of the half-tonne adult crocodiles. Open 10am-6pm. C/ Cuba, 14, Torremolinos. Tel: 952 051 782 El Refugio del Burrito Visit this donkey sanctuary just 40 minutes north of Málaga. Open 11am7pm. Fuente de Piedra, Málaga. Tel: 952 735 513 Fuengirola Zoo Go to mysterious Madagascar, Africa and the Far East. Open 10am-6pm. C/ Camilo José Cela, 6. Tel: 952 666 301 Funny Beach Kids paradise with go-karts, trampolines, mini-motorbikes, mechanic bull. Open daily.

East side of Marbella. Tel: 952 823 359

Ice Skating Rink and Indoor Swimming Pool New sports centre with public ice skating, inAFA Football Academy Football school for all ages run by coach Mike Kirkland. Marbella Paradise of Football, La Quinta sports complex. Tel: 669 019 881 Born to be Wild Jeep and dolphin Eco-tours for the whole family. Open 9am-8pm. Blue Dolphin Beach Club, Estepona Beach. Tel: 639 720 246 Cable Ski Marbella Water ski cable system and pool. Open 11am-9pm (closed Mondays). Urb. Las Medranas, San Pedro. Tel: 952 785 579 Congo Come face to face with the world’s largest spider and visit a real rainforest. Inside Tivoli World.

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door pool, children’s pool. Avda. García Lorca, Arroyo de la Miel, Benalmádena. Tel: 952 577 050 Jayne Melville Performing Arts Courses at all levels: ballet, tap, jazz/modern, hip-hop/street, drama, mime and singing. London Studio Centre. Tel: 952 906 865 Karting Club Málaga Go-kart circuit for kids and adults who feel a need for speed. Open 10am-midnight. Ctra. De Coin, Mijas Costa. Tel: 952 581 704 Natura Aventura Theme Park Rock climbing wall, pot holing, kayaks, quads, archery, paintball etc.

C/ Santa Beatriz, San Pedro. Tel: 902 011 077 Original Dolphin Safari Watch, touch and

swim with dolphins. Open 10am-5pm. Marina Bay, Gibraltar. Tel: 9567 71 914 Paint & Fun Ceramic Café Ceramic painting studio closed Mondays. Apt for all ages. C/ García Morato 8, El Ingenio, San Pedro. Tel: 952 783 884 Parque Acuático Mijas Thrills and spills to be had in this family friendly water park. Open daily from 10am. Fuengirola by-pass. Tel: 952 460 404 Plaza Mayor Family entertainment with multiscreen cinema, bars, restaurants, bowling alley and kids play area. Málaga. Tel: 952 247 580 Saturday Club Ages 6 to 12, tennis, martial arts, skating, aerobics, dance and ball games. Open 9.30am-2pm. Route 66, Fuengirola. Tel: 952 448 713 Sealife Centre See 2 metre long sharks. Touch pools and walk-though glass tunnel. Open daily 10am-6pm. Benálmadena Port. Tel: 952 560 150 Selwo Adventure Park Over 2,000 animals, 4x4 tours, plus adventure activities. Open 10am-9pm.

CN340 Km 162.5, Estepona. Tel: 902 190 482 Selwo Marina Dolphins, exotic birds, penguins and virtual reality shows. Open 10am-6pm. Parque de la Paloma, Benalmádena. Tel: 902 190 482 Send El Retiro Classical gardens with exotic plants and birds. Ctra. Coín, km 88, Churriana. Tel: 952 623 540 Steam Train Ride Enjoy a steam train ride crossing the Andalusian mountains with a scenic trip from

San Roque to Ronda. Tel: 952 931 186 Swim Bebé Swim Swimming classes for under 4’s and AquaNatal classes for mums-to-be. Tel: 617 520 588 / 609 474 038 Swim Squad Swimming lessons and Pool Parties.

Professionally run by fully ASA qualified swimming teachers and lifesaving staff. Child protection approved. Tel: 697 714 905 Teleférico Benalmádena Cable car to top of Calamorro mountain, falconry, trekking and horseriding. Arroyo de la Miel. Open 10am-6pm. Tel: 902 190 482 Tennis Camp Tennis lessons for kids from 4 years on, with professional coaches. Open 10am-1pm.

Club del Sol, Calahonda. Tel: 952 939 595 The Music Factory Music, dance and drama academy in Mijas Costa. First class free. Hip hop, ballet, tap, modern, yoga and freestyle. Tel: 952 582 077 The Swimming School (Marbella) Professionally run Learn to Swim ASA swimming courses for children aged 4-12. Tel: 657 581 961 Tivoli World Biggest amusement park on the Costa del Sol. Open daily from 1pm. Avda. de Tivoli, Benalmádena. Tel: 952 577 016 Trenecito de Marbella Take a relaxing way to view the main sights of Marbella. Daily 10am-1pm.

Paseo Maritimo. Tel: 639 765 981

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Report Marisa Cutillas

THEBLOG PETS

“A cat is a puzzle for which there is no solution.” - Hazel Nicholson

Crisis causes pet abandonment to spike

Over 110,000 dogs and 3,000 cats were abandoned in Spain in 2008, representing a rise of eight per cent when compared to the previous year. The main reasons for abandonment include changes of address, salary reductions and the return of immigrants to their countries of origin. According to a new study carried out by pet food brand, Pedigree, the crisis is to blame. The company seeks to make people more aware of this endemic problem, and encourage more of us to adopt pets whose only other option is an untimely death. Thousands of unwanted dogs and cats are sacrificed every year, leading to a clear need for greater awareness of what owning a pet involves.

Anti-abandonment measures include the use of microchips, the sterilisation of all pets not to be bred and the creation of new laws against negligence.

Jensen seeks a ‘forever home’ Jensen is a little three-year-old dog recently found wandering near the Sabinillas market. As he was starving and filthy his current foster mum, Geraldine, took him home to feed and take care of him in the hope that he will soon be adopted. Jensen walks to heel, sits and stays, is house- and car-trained, friendly with cats and children, active, playful and affectionate. Might you have room for him in your home and heart?

i For further information, please contact

Geraldine on Tel: 664 204 403.

El Camino: 1,200 km for and with animals!

El Camino was an amazing journey in which 15 volunteers, with 15 dogs from animal charity Adana, completed a 1,200 km trek from Estepona to Santiago de Compostela, over a period of seven weeks. The aim was threefold: to raise awareness of the cruelty animals of all types suffer; to educate people on care and compassion for animals; and to raise funds for the construction of new buildings needed to house and care for the animals. Adana currently cares for around 100 dogs, attempting as much as possible to attend to any abandoned or badly treated animals that come their way. Sadly, funds are limited and the charity needs your help, be it in the form of donations or voluntary work.

i For further information, www.adana.es

500 Friends for Harold Harold is a 15-year-old dog with many friends on Facebook… over 100, the last time we checked. But he’s aiming for 500 as part of a campaign to promote awareness of Animal Angels and other animal charities.

Just log onto Facebook and search for Harold King. Look for the grey doggie wearing a purple wreath of flowers and sign up as a friend. Harold, who now lives at the Animal Angels shelter in the UK, was thrown out of a moving car in Spain. His health was so delicate, it was doubtful whether he would survive the trip to the UK but he arrived safe and sound, and is happily living out his last few years at the shelter, being pampered and loved by the staff. The more friends Harold has, the greater impact his plight, and that of many other animals, will have on the media and the public in general, so join up now and start doing your bit.

i www.facebook.com

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Regular Events

Monthly on different days AMERICAN CLUB – COSTA DEL SOL The American Club Costa del Sol’s chapters meet monthly for lunches, excursions, sports and social events for members and guests. Further information, www.americanclubcostadelsol.com For the American International Club Nerja, http:// www.geocities.com/nerjachapter/americanclub

Every Monday BRITISH LEGION – BENALMÁDENA Social meetings weekly, branch meeting every last Monday of the month, both 11am at Sad Sam’s Bar and Grill, Avenida Bonanza. Further information, Tel: 952 447 465.

Every Monday & Wednesday TAE KWON DO CLASSES – MARBELLA The Platinium Tae Kwon Do School meets every Monday and Wednesday at the Hotel Los Monteros gym, with classes for children aged six to 14 from 7.15-8pm and adults aged 15+ from 8-9pm. As an introductory offer, the first two classes are free.

Further information, Tel: 687 340 677.

Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday FIVE-A-SIDE FOOTBALL – MARBELLA Aloha Gardens Multi-Sports Club organises men’s five-a-side matches from 7.30-8.30pm, all welcome. Further information, Tel: 952 814 086.

Every Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday MUSEUM TOURS – MÁLAGA Getting to Know the Collection – a tour of selected works of the Picasso Collection for adults, conducted in English on Wednesdays at 11.30am and in Spanish on Tuesday and Saturday at various times, free with purchase of admission ticket.

Also, every last Sunday of the month, entrance free from 3pm. Further information, www. museopicassomalaga.org

Every first Tuesday of the month GARDEN CLUB – BENALMÁDENA Meeting of Garden Club La Capellania at the Manila Restaurant, Los Boliches seafront, from 3pm.

Members €20 per annum, visitors 4€. Further information, Tel: 952 442 603.

Every Wednesday FLAMENCO – MIJAS In Mijas Pueblo main square, 12 noon (also, 9.30pm on Thursday in July and August), including complimentary glass of Málaga wine. Further information, Tel: 952 589 034.

COFFEE MORNING – MARBELLA Organised by the British Association of Marbella, the group meets from 11am to 12.30pm at Da Paolo’s Cafe, Avda. Ricardo Soriano. Further information, Tel: 952 773 188/647 773 130.

TOASTMASTERS CLUB – MARBELLA Weekly meeting of this public speaking organisation, 7.30pm at Aloha Gardens, Nueva Andalucía, above Café El Jardin. Further information, http://theachievers.freetoasthost.org

First Wednesday of the month CULTURE & COCKTAIL – MARBELLA

The Asociación de Arte y Cultura Marbella monthly cocktail party at Magna Café, Magna Marbella Golf.

Further information, www.culturamarbella.org/ lorraine@culturamarbella.org

Every Wednesday GUIDED WALKS – MIJAS PUEBLO Departing 7pm. Further information, Tel: 952 589 034.

Every third Wednesday of the month LUNCH – MARBELLA The American Club of Marbella meets at a different local restaurant, with an occasional guest speaker, 12.30pm. New friends welcome. Further information, Tel: 952 862 770.

Every Thursday CINE CLUB – ESTEPONA Top films shown weekly in Spanish or original soundtrack, Padre Manuel Cultural Centre, 9pm.

Entry €3. Further information, Tel: 952 802 002/ www.estepona.es

Every third Thursday of the month BRIC-A-BRAC SALE – FUENGIROLA At Lux Mundi Ecumenical Centre, 10.30am-12pm.

Further information, Tel: 952 543 334.

Every last Thursday of the month TENNIS & NETWORKING – MARBELLA Organised by The American Club of the Costa del Sol (Marbella Chapter) at the Don Carlos Hotel and Tennis Club,10am-2 pm. Entry, €25, includes court time, buffet lunch and drinks. Further information, Tel: 675 094 494/ ann.mcgeehan@yahoo.com LUNCH – MARBELLA Organised by the British Association of Marbella at a local restaurant. English-speaking members of any nationality welcome. Further information, Tel: 952 773 188.

Every first Friday of the month WOMEN’S NETWORKING LUNCH – MARBELLA The Women in Business networking group meets at a local restaurant. Further information, Tel: 647 724 608.

Every Friday and Saturday

blues music and traditional New Orleans dishes at the Casino Marbella Restaurant, Tel: 952 814 000.

Entrance only with DNI or passport.

ART FOR CHILDREN – MÁLAGA Talk based on selected works from the Collection, weekly at 12 noon, conducted in Spanish. Further information, www.museopicassomalaga.org

Marbella Club Hotel. Further information, www. housesofartmarbella.com

Every Saturday and Sunday

ACTIVA 09 – MARBELLA & SAN PEDRO Programme of healthy outdoor pursuits at Cable Beach, Marbella, from July 6-17 and La Salida Beach, San Pedro, from July 20-31. Activities, including volley ball, yoga, body combat and dancing, are aimed at 12-30-year-olds, although everyone is welcome, and most are free. Further information, Tel: 952 799 637/ www.marbella.es SUMMER ART WORKSHOPS – MÁLAGA Painting, paper and scissors, a series of workshops at the Museo Picasso Málaga, teaching youngsters to design clothes as Picasso did, with paint and paper. From July 7-10, 14-17 and 21-24 for ages 6 to 8, and July 28-31 for ages 9 to 11. From 11am-2pm, enrolment €40. Further information and bookings, Tel: 952 127 611/ educacion@mpicassom.org HORSE RACING – MIJAS COSTA Race meetings every Saturday from July 4-25 (also on Friday, July 31 and August 7), at the Hipódromo, open 8.30pm, first race 10.30pm. Adults €5, pensioners and under-18s free. Free parking.

Further information, www.hipodromocostadelsol. es

CHILDREN’S STORYTIME – MÁLAGA Cuentacuentos – free sessions in the library of Málaga Contemporary Arts Centre, 12 noon, to teach children aged 3 to 10 to read Spanish and develop an interest in the arts. All welcome.

Further information, Tel: 952 120 055/www. cacmalaga.org KID’S CAMP – MARBELLA Aloha Gardens Multi-Sports Club weekend camp for 4-14 year-olds, 10.30am-1pm. Activities include tennis, football, cricket, basketball, hockey, handball, paddle tennis. Further information, Tel: 952 814 086.

Every Sunday MARKET – GUADALMINA Market of antiques, clothes, fabrics and objets d’art, 10am-3pm, in front of the VTA3 shop (behind Supersol) at Guadalmina Commercial Centre. Further information, Tel: 952 904 137.

FERRARI CLUB – MARBELLA The Ferrari Owners’ Club of Andalucía-Puerto Banús meets in front of Toni Dalli’s Restaurant, 11.30am. Further information, Tel: 952 812 490.

CONCERT – MÁLAGA The Málaga Municipal Band performs at 12 noon in Málaga Park, Ocon bandstand.

Every first Sunday of the month OPEN DAY – MIJAS PAD animal shelter, Cerros del Aguila, welcomes visitors from 12-3pm. Further information, Tel: 952 486 084/ info@padcatsanddogs.org

JULY EVENTS

Throughout July and August

Until July 20 EXHIBITION – MIJAS PUEBLO Exhibition of entries for the 11th Watercolour Painting competition, Casa Museo.

Throughout July

Throughout July-August 30 EXHIBITION – MÁLAGA The Collection in Context, Málaga Picasso Museum, showcasing Picasso’s sheet-metal sculpture Woman (1961) and 40 other works, including paper cut-outs he made as a child, Cubist constructions, paintings and sculptures from his later years, plus three major sculptures by Julio González and a decoupage by Henri Matisse, allowing the viewer to examine the ideas exchange between three great artists. Further information, www. museopicassomalaga.org EXHIBITION – MARBELLA German-born Marbella artist Fred Friedrich presents Metamorphosie, a collection of abstract dripping and action paintings, Monday-Friday, 11am-2pm and 5-8.30pm at Mila’s Gallery, C./ Notario Luis Oliver, 7, Tel:, 952 776 794.

OPERA – MARBELLA Various opera singers entertain diners at Da Bruno Sul Mare restaurant, 9pm. Further information, Tel: 952 903 312.

Arts & crafts fair – puerto banús The annual fair in the plaza, with stalls selling traditional crafts from around the world. Further information, www.marbella.es

Every last Friday of the month

Until July 6

BUSINESS LUNCH – MARBELLA Marbella Business Institute monthly luncheon at a different restaurant in the area. Non-members welcome with advance notice. Further information, Tel: 952 773 500.

COFFEE MORNING – ESTEPONA ADANA animal rescue charity coffee morning at Plaza Manilva (outside Longman’s Bookshop) 11am-2pm. Kennels open 10am-5pm MondayFriday and 10am-2pm Saturday, Sunday and fiestas. Further information, Tel: 952 797 405/ 606 274 206/ administracion@adana-estepona.com

PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION – TORROX Exhibition by photographer Christina Roels, El día a día de las mujeres de Torrox, El Convento, MondayFriday, 8am-2pm and 6-9pm. Further information, www.cristalinoarte.com

Thursday July 2-31

Until July 11

CUDECA GALA DINNER – MÁLAGA Cancer charity Cudeca’s annual fund-raising Gala Dinner in the Botanical Gardens of Málaga’s Finca de la Concepción, 9pm. Tickets include welcome cocktail and dinner served by the famous Limonar 40 restaurant, live music, charity auction and raffle.

Further information, www.cudeca.org

Every Saturday JAZZ NIGHT – MARBELLA Weekly programme of jazz dinners with gospel and

EXHIBITION – MARBELLA The graphic art of Victor Mira, Museo de Grabado, Marbella Old Town. Further information, Tel: 952 764 591.

Until July 14 EXHIBITION – Marbella Leading Chinese artist Zhuang Hong Yi, creator of Nail Bed and a collection of works in Perspex, exhibits at Houses of Art Gallery,

EXHIBITION – FUENGIROLA Paintings by members of the Municipal Workshop, inauguration 9pm.

Friday July 3

Friday July 3, 10 MUSIC FESTIVAL – FUENGIROLA The town’s famous Summer Concerts in the Castle

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showcases two top artists at the atmospheric Castillo Sohail from 10pm: July 3 – Raphael, the worldwide-acclaimed pioneer of modern Spanish music presents his new tour, 50 Años Después.

July 10 Veteran Catalan singer/songwriter Joan Manuel Serrat presents his tour, 100 x 100 Serrat.

Further information, www.fuengirola.org

Saturday July 4 CHARITY GALA – MARBELLA Animal rescue charity Triple A’s annual charity gala with buffet, drinks and dancing, at the new Cool Beach, N340, km 185, Río Real. Tickets, €135 from various outlets including the Pointer Veterinary Clinic, Nueva Andalucía, Tel: 952 814 40. Further information, Elke Elisabeth Henger, Tel: 952 860 884/ e.henger@hengerproperties.com CHILDREN’S FESTIVAL – FUENGIROLA The 8th edition of Jajejijoju, a festival of humour and magic for kids at the Palacio de la Paz, 8pm.

Further information, www.fuengirola.org

Monday July 6-August 31 KIDS’ SOCCER CAMP – MARBELLA Soccer training for 5-17-year-olds with FA and UEFA qualified coaches, 11am-4pm, MondayFriday, including healthy lunch, unlimited water, T-shirts and prize certificates. Further information, Tel: 622 876 773/ www.soccerampmarbella.com

Tuesday July 7, 14, 21 & 28 OPEN AIR CONCERTs – FUENGIROLA Performances by the Municipal Band, Parque de España, 9.30pm. Further information, www. fuengirola.org

Tuesday-Sunday, July 7-12 ESTEPONA FERIA Casitas, flamenco and fun. Full programme from the Tourist Office/ www.estepona.es

Damos el Cante is the theme of a concert series celebrating Spanish and Hispanic musicians in the patio of the Casa Museo, 9pm, on Fridays over the next two months: July 10 – Caradefuego invita a Adriana Deffenti en Iberian Notes, a Hispanic-Brazilian work by Adriana Deffenti and María Rayo (caradefuego) giving a modern twist to the traditional songs of Andalucía and Brazil.

July 31 – Flamenco four-piece band, La Camaradería.

August 7 – Pop ballad singer Isaire.

August 14 – Flamenco singer Cristina Maestre and guitarist David Retamero.

August 21 – Flamenco singer Ismael Tamayo.

August 28 – Flamenco singer Laura Román.

Cuidadosa and La Cueva de Salamanca in their mother tongues, €6.

Five-day ticket, €36. Tickets from the Casa Museo, Mijas Pueblo, Las Lagunas Casa de la Cultura and the Centro Cultural de la Cala. Further information, Tel: 952 590 380.

RACE 4 LIFE – CÓMPETA Annual Race 4 Life five-kilometre sponsored walk in Cómpeta, in aid of Cudeca Cancer Care Hospice.

Also, open-air market for local businesses in the new Paseo de la Tradiciones from 11am, live music, children’s disco, treasure hunt and unveiling of a statue by artist Moira Schepel. Further information from Debi Bond, casabond@gmail.com/ www. cudeca.org

Friday July 31

Saturday July 11-31

Friday July 24

CERVANTES THEATRE – MÁLAGA

SUMMER CONCERTS – MARBELLA Series of classical summer concerts organised by Marbella Town Hall and Musica Con Encanto: Saturday July 11 – Pianist Adonis Gonzalez performs works by Mozart, Chopin, Liszt, Lecuona, Saumell and Cervantes, 9pm, Centro Cultural Cortijo Miraflores.

Friday July 17 – The Shostakovich Ensemble performs works by Schubert and Dvorak, 9pm, Ermita del Santo Cristo.

Friday July 24 – Pianist Carmen Yepes performs works by Bach, Beethoven and Chopin, 9pm, Clínica Buchinger.

Friday July 31 – Pianist Natalia Kuchaeva performs works by Franck, Ravel and Debussy, 9pm at Volúbilis.

All tickets, €20. Further information, Tel: 689 000 944/ www.musicaconencanto.org

CONCERT – MARBELLA Singer Stephen Lloyd-Morgan presents songs from West End musicals and operas in the style of Il Divo, El Campanario Country House, El Paraíso.

Reservations, Tel: 952 904 233.

CHIldREN’S MUSICAL THEATRE – FUENGIROLA Teatrola presents Aunque Parezca Mentira, a magical musical story for all the family, 9pm, Parque de España. Further information, www. fuengirola.org

TERRAL SUMMER FESTIVAL – JULY 1-31 Terral, the Cervantes Theatre’s annual summer festival of music, headlining Fifties Rock ‘n’ Roll star Jerry Lee Lewis, still a Great Ball of Fire after all these years; Sixties singer/songwriter Burt Bacharach and a cross-section of the world’s top international musicians and vocalists.

Wednesday July 1 - Les Petits Chanteurs de SaintMarc, the official choir of the Basilica of NotreDame de Fourvière, Lyon, France, 9pm.

Saturday July 4 - Concert of Turkish and Arabic influenced sounds by Kurdistan artist, Aynur, 9pm.

Sunday July 5-29 - Terral in the Streets: live music and street theatre.

Monday July 6 - Greek contemporary music’s most international voice, Eleftheria Arvanitaki, presents songs from her new album, Jerry Lee Mírame, 9pm.

Lewis Saturday July 11 - Malagueño crooner Zenet, 9pm.

Sunday July 12 - Cape Verde singer Cesária Évora presents songs from her latest album, Rogamar, 9pm.

Saturday July 18 - Fifties rock ‘n’ roll legend Jerry Lee Lewis, 9pm.

Sunday July 19 - Gala Motown Night with The Funk Brothers Band and Tito Jackson, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the record label, 9pm.

Monday July 20 - Turkish composer and flautist Omar Faruk and Armenian percussionist and singer Arto Tunçboyaciyan present their Sin Fronteras tour, 9pm.

Thursday July 23 - Polish group, Warsaw Village Band, 9pm.

Friday July 24 - The Daniel Casares Quartet from Málaga perform flamenco and Latin jazz, 9pm.

Saturday July 25 - Omara Portuondo, ‘the Dame of Cuban music’, 9pm.

Sunday July 26 - Legendary American composer Burt Bacharach of Walk On By fame, 9pm.

Friday July 31 - Divinas present Sing! Sing! Sing!, a theatrical concert of Dixieland, swing and boogie woogie from the ’40s and ’50s.

Ticket sales, Tel: 902 360 295. Further information, Tel: 952 224 100/ www.teatrocervantes.com

Wednesday July 15

CONCERT – FUENGIROLA The Chisinau State Symphony Orchestra of Moldavia performs at Parque de España, 9.30pm.

Further information, www.fuengirola.org

CONCERT – ESTEPONA Roger Hodgson, ‘the voice’ of ‘70s group Supertramp and composer of many of their hits, in concert at Estepona Bullring, 10pm. Tickets, €30 and €60 from FNAC, Carrefour and Ticketmaster, Tel. 902 150 025/ www.ticktackticket.com

Thursday-Friday, July 9-10

Thursday July 16

BALLET TRIP – GRANADA Culture Bus trip to the 58th Granada International Music and Dance Festival’s production of Swan Lake, performed by London´s Royal Ballet in the gardens of the Alhambra’s Generalife. Tickets, including coach transport (pick-ups from Marbella, Fuengirola and Benalmádena) and accommodation, €159. Further information and booking, Tel: 952 217 599.

VIRGEN DEL CARMEN – ESTEPONA & LOS BOLICHES Estepona and Los Boliches commemorate their patron saints with a procession to bless the fishing boats at sea, followed by fireworks and a fiesta.

Further information, www.estepona.es and www. fuengirola.org

Thursday July 9

Friday-Sunday, July 10-12 DAVIS CUP QUARTER FINALS – PUERTO BANÚS Spain takes on Germany in the Quarter Finals of tennis’s Davis Cup at Puerto Banús Bullring. Tickets, €90-€300, from the box office, open 10am2pm and 4-8pm; also from FNAC, Carrefour and Ticketmaster, Tel. 902 150 025/ www.ticketmaster. es

Friday July 10-Aguust 28 MUSIC FESTIVAL – MIJAS

Thursday July 16-20 23RD THEATRE FESTIVAL – MIJAS PUEBLO A feast of humour, satire and thought-provoking drama, held at the Municipal Auditorium nightly from 11pm.

July 16 – UP Workshop of Mijas presents La Casa de la Salud, €6.

July 17 – Yllana presents Brokers, €12.

July 18 – Faemino y Cansado present Son Dos, €12.

July 19 – Pepe Viyuela presents Encerrona, €12.

July 20 – Teatro Mijas, Theatre Vlastik from Czechoslovakia and Theatre Sans Liens from France present Cervantes’ El Viejo Celoso, La Guardia

Sunday July 19

Friday and Saturday, July 24, 25 THEATRE – FUENGIROLA Fuengirola Youth Theatre presents A La Caza de Bernarda Alba, the Musical, a humorous take on Lorca’s similarlytitled play, suitable for adults and children over 14, 9.30, Palacio de la Paz. Tickets, €5, in aid of Williams Syndrome sufferers. Further information, www.fuengirola.org

Saturday July 25 SWIMMING GALA – CANCELADA Provincial Swimming Championships at Cancelada Municipal Sports Centre. Further information, www.estepona.es

Wednesday July 29 CHARITY FUN RUN – MIJAS COSTA Smile Mile 2009, organised by the Smile Foundation around it’s Club La Costa resort. Proceeds in aid of the Cruz Dias Hospital/ADIMI Centre in Mijas, providing respite care for the families of disabled and handicapped children. Start 8pm. Entry, €7 p.p. Further information from Antonia HagelenMcIntosh, Tel:952 669 966/ smilefoundation@ clublacosta.com

Thursdays July 30, August 6, 13, 20 CONCERTS IN THE AMPHITHEATRE – MARBELLA The Villa Padierna’s spectacular amphitheatre is the setting for three open-air evening concerts: July 30 – Blues concert with The Sam Bluesy Band.

August 6 – Humour and magic with Montty the magician.

August 13 – Flamenco singer and dancer Juan Delola.

August 20 – New Orleans Jump Band.

Further information, Tel: 952 889 152/ www. hotelvillapadierna.com GALA CONCERT – MARBELLA Pianist Jessie de Bellis from Uruguay performs a programme of classical music followed, in the second half, by the Granados Spanish dancers, 9pm, Hotel Puente Romano. Tickets, €35 and €60 from El Corte Inglés, Tel. 902 400 222/ www. elcorteingles.es

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THEBLOG STARS

STARS for July ARIES [21 MAR - 20 APR] Changes on both professional and personal fronts are in store for you in the next few months, and July’s events will give you a sense of what’s coming, and what needs to be done to prepare. The cosmos is nudging your attention in the direction of home and family, and getting everything in order in this life department. This might require some changes in your approach to career, and some schedule juggling. Others are hanging on your words this month, and stimulating conversations about love and relationship figure strongly.

TAURUS [21 APR - 20 MAY]

LEO [23 JUL - 22 AUG] A friendly, sociable, and spiritual month is in your forecast. It’s a strong time for recreating yourself and your goals, particularly after the 21st. Circumstances in July insist you rid yourself of guilt about under-performing and develop faith and trust in a larger, more spiritual plan. There may be changes necessary in your job or health routines from the 5th to 8th. Do what you can to get yourself involved with others through clubs, groups and other social events because these are the settings in which your personal magnetism is strongest now.

VIRGO [23 AUG - 22 SEP]

A flurry of activity in July can leave your head spinning at times. There are errands to run, calls and emails to make and paperwork to sort out. Do your best to tend to these matters in an orderly fashion, making lists and following them, or you could put yourself through unnecessary stress.

You have the ability to find extra sources of income this month but, at the same time, your tendency to spend what you earn runs high. The last week of July finds you focusing on your home and family.

Finding a better position for yourself professionally will be easier than ever this month. Others are recognising your charm and determination, while your ability to network and communicate with ease in July only sweetens the pot. Your social agenda is busy as well, as you find that you’re not only in demand at work, you’re also generating great interest amongst friends. Your romantic life is likely to be emotional and dramatic from the 5th to 8th and the Solar Eclipse on the 21st marks a new beginning with friends and group associations.

GEMINI [21 MAY - 21 JUN]

LIBRA [23 SEP - 23 OCT]

The need to sort out your finances becomes apparent in July. Events – such as the need to fulfill financial obligations – occur now that push you in that direction. Some drama regarding shared finances with a partner, loans, or taxes is likely this month. On a personal level, your magnetism skyrockets from the 5th, and especially after the 12th. Others are following your lead, and this is especially true of love interests and friends, and your charm knows no bounds. Take advantage of this exciting energy!

Your career is a big focus this month when the chance for a new start, professionally speaking, occurs from the 21st forward. While it means a change of position for some, for many of you it’s about new commitments. The 5th to 8th brings urgent demands from home and family. These events serve as a reminder of personal responsibilities on the home front, as you’ve been paying a lot of attention to your public and professional life. Luckily, you have energy to spare and an especially adventurous spirit in July.

CANCER [22 JUN - 22 JUL] July brings many surprises and personal revelations to your life. Tests, illuminations and dramas with a partner occur from the 5th to 8th, which set the stage for a strong need to revamp your approach to life. A Solar Eclipse occurs in your sign on the 21st, and you experience an increased drive to take charge of your life. Issues surrounding personal appearance and body image become especially important now. Big personal changes are in the works. You take a more spiritual approach to your love life this month.

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SCORPIO [24 OCT - 21 NOV] Events in July bring up the issues of freedom and mobility for Scorpios. You are feeling restless and restrained and the need to put some spice and adventure into your life is strong. The Lunar Eclipse on the 7th sets the stage for a new commitment to finding more ways to get out and about. Intimate matters are heating up this month, keeping a romance interesting, but avoid reading between the lines too much. From the 5th onwards, opportunities to get the support you need are strong, whether it’s financial or moral.

SAGITTARIUS [22 NOV - 21 DEC] In July, focus is on a partner and relationships in general. There are plenty of negotiations and compromises to make. Love is spicy, stimulating, sometimes challenging but, ultimately, very satisfying this month. Your personal plans might be on hold for now, as you tend to others’ needs. An important money matter comes to a head on the 5th to 8th, prompting you to take more control over your finances, including any shared resources with a partner.

Changes in your income, or that of a partner, are in store.

CAPRICORN [22 DEC - 19 JAN] July promises to be an eye-opening month for Capricorns, with Lunar and Solar Eclipses occurring in your sign, and in Cancer, the one opposite yours. Partnerships are a big theme this month, and will be for months to come.

New beginnings in relationships are in the works and June’s events get the ball rolling in that direction. Around the 5th to 8th, your emotions are heightened and a personal revelation occurs that might surprise you. Work is especially stimulating in July, and offers you wonderful social, and possibly romantic, opportunities.

AQUARIUS [20 JAN - 19 FEB] Heightened romantic feelings and playful impulses are themes for you in July, dear Aquarius.

It’s a strong period for taking a small, perhaps familiar, vacation that allows you to rest, relax, recoup, and enjoy yourself. A vacation that is too ambitious, exotic or unfamiliar might only serve to stress you out. Changes in work or health routines are in the pipeline and July’s events alert you to the need for making necessary adjustments. Overall, July is a time to adapt and attract, rather than initiate, new projects or endeavours.

PISCES [20 FEB - 20 MAR] Big changes in your love life, with friends, and in your job are in the works for you in the next few months, dear Pisces, and July’s events will give you a sense of what needs to be done. Tests in these areas of your life are likely now, and pave the way for new beginnings to come. You’re more playful, creative, and romantic impulses are stimulated now, making it a good time for a vacation.

Nevertheless, there is a lot of stimulating activity at home, and with family, in July.

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