Blogs from Malaga, Málaga, Andalusia, Spain, Europe - page 3

With the goal of checking out Ronda and Córdoba, I bought a cheap flight to Málaga (from Santiago de Compostela) for the end of February. Originally I hadn't planned to spend a lot of time in Málaga itself, but after doing some research, it made the most sense to stay there from Saturday night through Monday morning of Carnival weekend (in 2017, the last weekend of February), before heading to Ronda. I lucked out with it being Carnival, because there was a bit more to see as a lone traveler. It was also cool to contrast (the part I caught of) Carnival in Málaga with Carnival in Ourense (that´d I’d experienced last year). Saturday night, there weren't nearly as many people dressed up as I expected, maybe 1 out of 4 or 5 people. It may ... read more

It's definitely warmer here! No gloves needed, and scarves are optional. Sometimes the wind blows, but it's not freezing, like up north. At night, however, it gets chilly in the room since there's no heating. And this hotel is so much better for me than the previous one. This is not my first time in Spain, but it is my first time in the south. I can say that I was not particularly pleased with my choice during the flight to Malaga yesterday. I was surrounded by a group of maybe 30 barely-pubescent Spaniards in the back half of the plane. They were loud, always standing in the aisle, and acted like they didn't realize other people were on the plane. I felt like this is how it might be if we were all on a ... read more

This weekend, our travels took us to the South of Spain, on the beaches of the Mediterranean called the Costa Del Sol. To get the cheapest flights, you have to travel early, so we woke up at 4am and were on the bus towards the train station which would bring us to the airport for our flight at 7:25am. The good thing about such an early start, however, is that we reached paradise before lunch. We were amazed at how easy it was to get from the Málaga airport to our hotel, in a town called Torremuelle just down the coast from Malaga. From the airport train station, it took us about 25 minutes to reach our station in Torremuelle. It was, however, really difficult to find our hotel from there: it took us about 1 ... read more