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SP13 - Day 5

Time still flies. Today we went out to Fuengirola, parking in the underground car-park at Las Rampas. Our mission today was to find a shoe repairers. One of Claire's sandals had a problem with a flap broken.  Could we find one? Could we heck. In the end I bought a silver bull to go on pannier for the extortionate amount of  €2. We had a coffee and decided to go to Coin. A white village some 25 kms to the north. TomTom was programmed and we set off through previously unseen Fuengirola until we recognised a bit of the route. Now a beautifully EU funded stretch of paved road to Alhaurin. In 2010, the last time we had a car, we had several off road and gravel tracks to negotiate around the road building programme. The journey to Coin took much longer than 19 miles ought!! We parked outside the town near Antonio's motorcycle shop, and walked back into the square. Jesus at one end and a fountain at the other, with a bandstand in between. We had a coffee and then set the TomTom for h...