Malaga, I love you

So even thought I went to Málaga a long time ago I should at least write about the basics of my trip.  Basically, so far it was one of my favorite trips, although every trip is fantastic in a different way! This trip was fantastic because I got to spend time with my favorite Spainards!  Maria and Manolo, my two good friends from Granada when I studied abroad there.  :)  They allowed me to show up late on Thursday evening so we should have plenty of time on Friday and Saturday to explore the city and do many things.  I’m so grateful to them for hosting me and letting me sleep on their sofa-cama (futon) for the weekend and for showing me all the great places in Malaga to see and to eat.  I ate wonderful seafood, and other yummy foods, and they showed me all the greatest views in Malaga.  :)

Thursday night I arrived, we ate some dinner at the mall, and then met some of their British friends for their intercambio.  It was fun and nice to see that they are able to keep up with their English, even thought their English is better than my Spanish will ever be.  They are truely inspirational people for me, because if they can learn English as well as they did, and watch t.v and listen to the radio all in English most of the time, then I should be able to do the same, and I should certainly try harder.  Then Friday, they went to work and I stayed home and slept in and after they came home from work we went downtown to check out the downtown Malaga.  The city center is absolutely gorgeous, and so much bigger than the center in Huelva!  Although that doesn’t surprise me at all, haha.  I think most city centers are going to be bigger than Huelva’s, except for many the pueblo’s city centers, haha.  Anyways, it was gorgeous, and we got some dinnfer at a nice restaurante downtown, and they showed me around.  We saw the beautiful Cathedral by night, we saw the old roman forum but night and the Alcazaba as well. 

 

 

 

 

 

Cathedral

 

We even found a giant pair of 3D sunglasses in Plaza de la Merced.  It was a promotion for discounts at movies in Malaga at certain theatres, but the giant red sunglasses were pretty cool!  Oh yea!  And I went to Pimpi’s, a famous British bar in Malaga, and there’s been all sorts of famous people who have visited the restaurant.  It’s actually really cool, and it’s huge on the inside with old posters advertising for bull fights, movies, flamenco shows, and then pictures of all the famous people who have visited the restaurant.  I’m really not even sure why it’s famous, I just know that it is.  It was cool though!

Saturday we took advantage the nice weather and Maria and Manolo took me to climb alongside the Alcazaba to see a great view of Malaga.  I actually don’t know anything about the Alcazaba, why it’s there or when it got there, because I didn’t do anything touristy, while I was in Malaga.  If I return I def am going to go to the Picasso Museum and enter the Alcazba so I can see the old Roman Forum better.  But what we did was also really cool (both as in it was awesome and it was chilly!  It started to get cold in Malaga when I went!)

 

The old Roman Forum in front of the Alcazaba

 

At the top of the view, and yes, that’s the beautiful ocean in the background.  It was amazing

Maria, Manolo and Me at the top.  My two favorite Spainards!

And of course I entered the Cathedral in Malaga, what Cathedral don’t I enter!  It was really pretty inside, and had probably one of the most beautiful tabernacles that I’ve ever seen. 

Sunday we went down to the beach and walked along the shore for a bit, and I even saw some people sun bathing!  And that’s pretty much everything I did.  It was a really relaxing weekend with them.  We drove around in the car ( :D I miss driving around in a car) and ate really amazing food, and drank a lot of wine. It was an incredible weekend and I’m so grateful that my friends showed me around their beautiful new home.  Hey, maybe next year I’ll live in Malaga, that’d be cool.  :D