Malaga - Meeting more friends

Malaga was our next stop after Gibraltar. We were to meet up with a friend (Agostino, who was volunteering in Malaga, he is originally from Italy) we had met in Morocco whilst in a pension in Fes. He very kindly offered to put us up for a couple of nights at his place, which he shared with a couple of other people; a girl from Holland and a girl from Newcastle.

We arrived in Malaga in the afternoon through trusty blablacar again, and made our way to his apartment, which is very close to the train station and bus station. We were shown into his apartment by one of his housemates, the girl from Holland. We then relaxed for a bit until Agostino came home from work. We had a nice catch up with him before he showed us around the local area; where we could buy food and some of the things nearby.

A night out with friends

We then headed back to the apartment to meet with his last housemate from Newcastle, called Jen. She was very friendly and talked about what she had been doing in Spain and how she had learnt Spanish from scratch, it was very interesting. We then later went out with her and Agostino to explore Malaga by night. They told us all about the different tourist attractions that were nice to see and some nice lesser known spots as well, whilst showing us around Malaga city centre.

The cathedral located in the city centre

We went to a couple of bars to have some drinks and tapas too, by far our preferred of the two was the second one where you got some really cheap drinks and you could order some big tapas for just 1 Euro! There we also met up with another girl we had met in Morocco who was with Agostino at the time, Maria, who was with her brother and his wife. We had a nice evening with them before all heading back later on to bed.

Our second day in Malaga was fairly action packed as we tried to squeeze in as much as we could. We saw the famous one towered Cathedral, which has several myths as to why it only has one tower, some sounding very outlandish. One of my favourites was that the money for them was gambled away. We also visited Picassos birthplace and saw a small museum dedicated to him and some of his very early works, as he only lived in Malaga for a very short period of time.

Carmen sitting on Picasso's knee

We also visited the Alcazar and castle in Malaga, both of which are perched atop the same hill with some lovely views out over the city and onto the seafront. We were also able to see the bullring from atop the hill as well.

The view from atop the hill over the port

The final place that we visited in Malaga was the Roman theatre ruins, which I must say were a lot better than the ones we saw in Cadiz earlier in the week. They were well preserved and had a lot of really interesting information at the site to tell you about its history. As an added bonus the ruins are right in front of the Alcazar walls, which really give it a nice setting.

Roman Theatre with Alcazar walls in the background

After a long day of looking around we headed back to the apartment and had a quiet relaxing evening and an early night as we had to be up the next morning for another blablacar to our next destination; Cordoba and the Cruz de Mayo festival!