Vivid displays of flowers and climbing vines are everywhere during the cooler and slightly wetter times of the year on the Costa del Sol. In February, the almond blossoms blanket the countryside with pinkish blooms and plants and flowers open up with astonishing displays of tropical colour. The ocassional days of rain fill the reservoirs for the arid days ahead and what will be brown mountainsides by summer are now freshly green. In our three winters on the coast, we've never had more than five or six days of cloud and rain during the entire two month period of February and March. Sunshine and blue skies are the norm!!!