Arrived In Malaga

We arrived in Malaga yesterday afternoon after a one night stopover in the UK.  It is nice to be here. It is sunny and warm.  We spent the day exploring Malaga and walked over 20K.

Both of the flights were OK. They both got us to our destination but neither of them was very comfortable. The seats on the overnight Westjet flights were quite uncomfortable and we both only managed an hour of sleep.  Easyjet has a strange and rather complicated luggage policy. You can only take one carry-on bag onto the flight. Even a small purse counts as your second bag and it has to fit into the other carry-on bag. We had to stuff a few things into our already quite full carry-on before we were allowed to board.  Next time we will be better prepared.

The evening we arrived we walked into the centre of town and found a table at a sidewalk cafe. We ordered a couple of glasses of Sangria and some tapas. As we were enjoying the refreshments the crowd began to grow and assembled themselves along the side of the street. We soon discovered that it was significant religious holiday and that were going to have a good view of the approaching parade.  Several bands were in the parade. Unlike most parade bands we have heard in Canada, these bands were great. They all played some enjoyable classical style pieces and they played them well!

Like most cities in Spain, the centre area of the city is traffic free. Both wide and narrow streets wind their way though the buildings.  There are cafes and restaurants on nearly every street as well as residences, businesses and retail shops.

The first two photos below are of the port and marina.  There are some very pleasant paths and parks close to this area and well as a selection of resurants, etc.

This is one of the main commercial streets leading the central plaza.

Hopefully this video plays OK.  The old river bed is now an activity area. From the look of it, it may possibly contain water in the rainy season but at this point it is dry and in front of hotel was volley ball game.  This "volleyball" game is nothing like I have ever seen before.

Football (soccer to you North Americans) is the big game in Spain. This game of "volleyball" is football inspired.

I couldn't get the video to work on the blog so I uploaded it to  Youtube  Copy and paste the link below to your browser to see it.

https://youtu.be/NvT-P3Hwgfo



Tomorrow, we are off to Olvera where we have rented a house for  month.   More news from there...