The Man of La Manga

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Or, get it for Kobo Super Points! Ratings and Reviews 0 0 star ratings 0 reviews. Overall rating No ratings yet 0. The two prized inhabitants of the lagoon are seahorses — those tiny little question-mark shaped fish with heads at right angles to their bodies — and flamingoes. Birdwatchers shouldn't be surprised to find one of the VIPs of the British avian world, avocets, probing their distinctive upturned bills into the quieter stretches of mud. In the UK, La Manga is usually associated with its famous upmarket namesake club, where England and Premiership football teams go to chill out or prepare for crunch games.

It's more than an hour's drive south from traditional Costa Blanca resorts served by flights to Alicante, but this area — the locals are greatly at pains to insist — is not the Costa Blanca, and they resent it being lumped into the same guidebooks. This is the Costa Clida — "the warm coast". In the UK the local airport is named Murcia pronounced Moorthee-ah after the province it serves, but the Spanish know it as San Javier.

The terminal building is delightfully small, a time-warp reminder of how charming airports used to be 50 years ago and completely devoid of the security features which now make our airports look like top secret military bases. Ironically, San Javier actually doubles as home of the Spanish Air Force Academy and its jets use the single runway for a certain number of hours each day. It's a temporary arrangement, because in the decade or so since Murcia was discovered by British tourists the number of passengers using the airport has increased by one thousand per cent, almost 1.

As a result, work is about to start on building a new airport for the growing tide of holidaymakers.

You can tell from Murcia's baggage reclaim carousel that many people are coming out to play golf — the Costa Clida is one of Europe's leading golf resort destinations. But the majority are heading to the coast.

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Unlike the other Costas, this coast has much more to offer than the miles of sand studded with beach parasols that one associates with Spain. Much of the Costa Clida is the meeting point between mountains and sea, and its wide bays or more intimate crystal-watered coves with dazzling white sands offer a different Spanish holiday experience, perhaps more evocative of the Greek Islands. This is where the people of Spain come in summer. However, the roads are infinitely better. To reach places like Mazarrn and guilas you drive south on virtually traffic-free dual carriageways which traverse mountain passes or bore through the higher peaks in long, cool tunnels.

Mazarrn is a large town, possibly as big as Scarborough, with a long curve of sand and enough bars and restaurants to ring the changes every night of a two-week holiday. It also has a well-preserved Roman past, and if you want a couple of hours out of the sun go and look at the old Roman fish-salting factory.

Further down the coast is the extremely impressive resort of guilas, above which looms a peak that bears an uncanny resemblance to Harrison Stickle in the Lake District. The water is so clear that guilas is to sub-aqua divers what the La Manga area is to golfers. But above the surface lie many attractions, not least some 35 sandy coves spread along the nearby coast.

Several of these are close to the Isle of El Fraile, which has a distinctive eagle-shaped rock and makes an interesting objective in one of the trips offered by local boat hirers.