We quickly realised it’s a morning place to stay – loses the sun at about 4.00 at this time of year, and is less comfortable sitting outside!
So Malaga and our old favourite beach/promenade come into their own.
Malaga is just as we remember it.
Cheers (Rum and Cointreau since you ask!)
Closest I’ve ever been to $200m!
Off to Granada and the Alhambra tomorrow.
Haven’t posted much, mainly because we haven’t really done much. But we have seen great beginnings and ends to the day.
Sunrises
Sunsets
As per usual, Eileen found us a decent place to stay – and we’re the only ones here so it is absolutely quiet.
Here until Wednesday – and you never know we might even decide to return here at the end. We’ll see.
It’s only 6 weeks since we got back from Portugal, and we’re already fed up with cold dark greyness, so scanned weather forecasts and plumped for Malaga again. It was March when we were here before, so feels familiar.
But still stressful. Car hire is always in there (!) – this time loads of damage (not recorded) so spent ages examining and discussing. Then got lost (how the heck did that happen with Google maps and familiarity???), and very tired.
But oh so worth it.
And Jo found a flat in NYC just 2 blocks north of Central Park which is exciting and a massive relief in equal measure.
Cars (again). Never heard of dr – apparently an Italian badge on a Chinese car.
New trick – make sure you can’t fill up the fuel tank. First time in my life I’ve had to actually go back and fill up again (15 litres no less) at an incredibly slow dribble until definitely full (notice overflow on the ground).
And fighting (again) with hire car company who are trying to claim we caused damage that was already there.
Anyway, plenty of time for a relaxing wait at the airport – except the queue for passports was extraordinary. I’m guessing about 1/4 mile, and took an hour, so only a very hurried takeaway coffee standing in the queue.
Flight delayed.
Baggage delayed about 1/2 hour in Luton.
Couldn’t find car in car park even though I’d taken a photo (did in the end ).
So all very basic stuff but tedious.
Real Joys of Travel
Morning walk before we left.
Coffee and baguette on our balcony before we left.
Just wall-to-wall sunshine, blue skies and sea (with a couple of mountains thrown in for a bit of a change).
Antequera
From coffee to lunch to aperitifs to dinner with the occasional siesta thrown in, it’s pretty idyllic here. Plenty more pictures.
Spot Eileen in this one
Still enjoying the warmth, although in all honesty it does get a bit too hot in the afternoon, but who’s complaining???
So generally mooching about, getting used to the zero parking by the beach so using the bus quite a bit. The app telling you when the next one is due is excellent, especially as the stop is just outside the apartment.
And plenty more nice pics:
Extremely pleased with the apartment
Never seen a beach/restaurants sooo busy – really hard to find anywhere for lunch. Oh the trials and frustrations we suffer …….
Mijas
Very steep 15 minute walk to the beach, but it’s low season so it’ll be fine to park, right? Wrong. Impossible, which was a bit frustrating on our first evening when we were looking to eat.
So let’s use the bus. Technology is terrific when it works, which it does, including scanning a QR code to tell you when it’s due. Less terrific is when we bought a book of tickets and were scammed – loaded 10 trips (50p per trip by the way) rather than the 20. Went back and queried and “there was a problem with the machine ” 😂. Anyway we’re up and running.
Malaga as nice as we remember it from November 2021.
