To this day, I am yet to meet an American who disagrees with the G-Team’s strong belief, strong feeling that living in the Costa del Sol offers many similarities to the ever-desirable state of California.  It could be argued that without the litany of actors, know it all’s, gangsters, and the overwhelming presence of Prius drivers, that what we have here is close to nirvana. 

As someone who lived in the northern part of Cali, close to San Francisco and having travelled extensively throughout California for business and pleasure (more of the former sadly), the visual similarities are as strong as the exhaustive abundance of the manmade, natural, indoor, and outdoor activities and pursuits on offer in the Costa del Sol. 

Being a child of the seventies, (ahem), we enjoyed a game of cards called Top Trumps.  The game was as simple as it was thoroughly entertaining and at the same time, educational.  Each pack of cards would focus on a specific topic, say motor cars or planes.  For this example, let’s take cars as our topic.  Each card would be allocated to a make and model of car.  The cards would list the high and low specifications of each vehicle. The pack of cards were then distributed between the players of which there could be two up to 8.  Best were two player games.