It's Spain, but not as I know it

From: The Independent - London | Date: November 1, 1998| Author: JEREMY ATIYAH | Copyright information

THE FIRST car I saw parked outside the front door of my hotel was a Lamborghini with a Saudi Arabian number plate, the only car in the world designed to be no thicker than a credit card. It was slung so low that it could comfortably have slipped a path underneath any normal vehicle. And yet it was wide enough to accommodate the driver and several girl-friends in the front seat.

The devil has to be in details like these. I have just arrived in the phenomenon that is Marbella and am stru...