Malaga

  Strange thing happened today - I got up and it wasn’t sunny. Didn’t know what to do! Ended up taking the train to Malaga, and as fortune would have it, by the time I got there the sun was working again. Malaga itself is fairly standard – it’s got the old town with the tiny streets and a square at every corner and an impressive old church/cathedral/mosque in most every square and an old fort on a hill and a palace – you know, the usual stuff. Since the fort “Castillo de Gibralfaro’ has been sitting up there looking over the town for 700 years, I decided to go there first. Its a fair good hike up (~130m) but there are lots of benches and lookouts along the way and obviously lots of good views from the top.€2.20 to gain admittance to Gibralfaro and €3.65 to see both Gibralfaro and the palace below (Alcazaba) that Gibralfaro was built to protect. On the way down, pass through the Alcazaba Tunnel and in about 100m you can find a most excellent tapas cafe (on Calle Mundo Nuevo).



YUM! One free tapa with each beer!
those are little mini burgers and
eggplant con miel - delicious!



Once again, the only customer, but the tapas were superb! ..and cheap... There is definitely no shortage of cafes and restaurants to choose from in the old part of the city – nearly every square and every street has one, if not a row...



another square with another monument and more cafes - actually this
one was quite neat - absolutely huge!

 Trip total 9382km

 


- Alcazaba Tunnel -
look carefully and you might
see me sitting there enjoying
a beer and tapas in the sun!

  
 


art is everywhere - a wall of glass at the port



more art in the middle of the street!



and must not forget, El Toro!