I've just had a wonderful weekend with four other Auxes (three from the UK and one from the US).
We hired a manual car with Record Go from the airport in Málaga (I would recommend hiring a car directly with the rental company as we found it to be better for insurance ) and drove to Vejer de la Frontera.
Vejer is a small white town in the hills of Cádiz. The town itself is famous for its Moorish influence as well as the cobijada, the black traditional dress worn by the nuns, revealing only their left eyes. The most photographed location is the tiled fountain in the Plaza de España, likening the architecture I saw in the Plaza de España in Seville. You should park in the free car parks at the bottom of town as it is very hilly and there are lots of one-way streets.
We arrived in the evening on Friday to our Airbnb and went out for drinks and tapas. On Saturday, we walked along the old walls in the morning. Then drove out to Playa del Palmar, where we went for a swim, and visited the Faro de Trafalgar which is the lighthouse that is on Cape Trafalgar where the Battle of Trafalgar was (British Navy vs Spain and France) during the Napoleonic Wars.
On Sunday, we drove out to Tarifa to see where the Atlantic meets the Mediterranean - it was super windy and we were covered with sand and salt water by the time we had crossed the isthmus!
We stopped via a port on the outskirts of Marbella to see some super yachts and then saw the castle in Colomares - it was finished in 1994 as a dedication to Christopher Columbus. (Honestly not that spectacular, but was only 2.50€ to enter.)
To end the trip, we went to 100 Montaditos where it was Euromanía (where on Wednesdays and Sundays, everything is 1€), and said our goodbyes.
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