There are some things in life that you just don't do so when the wife phones up and says "I've just been talking to Denise and theres a rally we both fancy" you don't say no. Never being one to look a gift horse in the mouth I started thinking about Great Yarmouth, Llandudno or one of the more local rallies on at the start of the season. "oh right where's that then" I said trying hard not to sound too enthusiastic, I did'nt want it counting as one of my rallies. This was definitley one for Lynda. "Benalmadena" she said, now being a truck driver and a scooterist for a number of years I soon figured out that this was somewhere south of Brighton! "I was hoping to go to Yarmouth" I said. I could feel my nose growing already! After a couple of seconds I gave in and said yes that sounded very nice and for this year i wouldn't mind missing camping in the snow in Yarmouth and heading for a 4 star hotel on the Costa Del Sol.Sometimes you have to make the odd sacrifice! Over the next couple of weeks or so the word went around to find out who else may be interested and we finally ended up with a party of eight.All we had to do now was get through Christmas, New Year and Easter and then we could start looking forward to it.

Its amazing how quick the time goes by and before we knew it the time to gowas on us, 6 of us on an afternoon flight from East Mids with Ray & Claire having gone earlier in the day, Ray will have the beer in for us when we get
there we said! With no problems at either Airport we were soon on the way to the hotel to meet up with our advance party and enjoy a beer or two, Ray already had!
There was no do on the Thursday night so it was a case of visiting the bars in the local area and having a few relaxed beers or in my case lots of whisky as well. Some may say we kicked the arse out of it on the first night, personally I thought it was a useful loosener to prepare us for what was to come. The other scooterists scattered around
the local bars seemed to be on pretty much the same stategy!

After a good breakfast and a day spent in recovery mode by the hotel pool, which was should we say quite bracing or even f**king cold, I had a game of hide and seek going on in my swimming shorts and could'nt find a thing, it was time to get sorted and ready for the first of the night do's at the Bonanza Bar. On the first night it was a DJ event with well known rally regulars Emma Cox, resplendent in shimmering pink, Andy from SWS and I think Terry Walters although by then alcohol was having its usual effect and all I can really remember is we had a good time.

The second night saw a covers band playing everything from The Who to The Sex Pistols and a mighty fine job they did of it to! Whilst on the third and final night we had an Elvis tribute to entertain us and that he certainly did with the help of an SWS Elvis impersonator. Two for the price of one! Now to be fair to him he said from the very start that the more we drank the better he would get, I have to say he was'nt wrong but we all had a mighty fine night. As a thank you to everyone who attended the organisers, from SWS, treated us all to a cocktail and very nice it was! Would we do it again? Absolutley! The eight of us that went from the B5000 said to a man (and woman) that if its on next year we're going! Don't know if it will be though because SWS are organising Las Vegas next year so it may be that Benalmadena is off the circuit for at least 12 months.