Blogs from Málaga, Andalusia, Spain, Europe - page 14

today we finally drove to malaga. the place we've all been waiting for seeing as tho its party town....well we think it is we got their and parked the car underground then went for a €5 pizza then we went to the beach and played on the swings, talked to a man with a weird hand and watched a man who could play the violin absolutely class! so class he wanted money! then we went to look for hotel carlos v we eventually found it after looking at loads of hotels and hostels with cockroaches in them it was alright, well our view was anyway, the other room had a very white view!ha unfortunately we'd made a mistake and thought we were in malia which is a party town whereas malaga, where we were, had only ... read more

OOOooooooooook. Spent the weekend in the province of Malaga, in a town called Torrox Costa. Tourist mania, but fun and a beautiful place. The majority of the first two days entailed numerous IKEA visits, and being the resident Swede, assembling all of the furniture for the apartment. The first trip made to IKEA was to purchase a couch and six dining room chairs, which clearly would not fit in the car with Ramon padre and myself. SO the most obvious thing to do was to rent a van, which Ramon would drive, and I would drive their standard shift car 45 minutes back to the apartment. AH! I was tweaking a little bit but pulled through divinely, if I may say so myself, and drove like a pro(bst) all the way home. On Sunday I went ... read more

Well with another busy week of work done and dusted, we headed out to a little farm North of Malaga, where we were to live and work with a nice Spanish family for two weeks. Or so we thought. Upon arriving in the town of Colmenar we were greeted by our gracious host, Adam. Adam, although being a very inviting and interesting person, could not be less Spanish. In fact our Spanish was probably on par with his. Not to be deterred we decided that if couldn´t learn Spanish then we´d learn about organic farming. Lesson 1: S*¡t happens 2 days of shovelling, bagging, moving, rolling and unloading rancid, flea ridden animal pheacal matter. (Although I was somewhat accustomed to this with my time in the Army, Alison had to ´warm´ to it) Lesson 2: Organic ... read more

Day 23 During the night around midnight, our Cruise Ship went through the Strait of Gibraltar into the Mediterranean Sea. Our Cruise Boat came into Malaga around 7 am in the morning. Malaga was settled by the Phoenicians more than 3,000 years ago.The city lies approximately 120 miles northeast of the Strait of Gibraltar along Spain's Coastal Plain. Malaga is the capital of the Costa del Sol, which is approximately 300 km. long, stretching from Cadiz in the west to the Gulf of Almeria on the east. Malaga is also the birthplace of Pablo Picasso. We rode the port shuttle bus to the end of the terminal, then we walked along the port road, past a Lighthouse to Malagueta Beach. img=http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/5260/09lighthouse1... read more

We arrived in Malaga, Spain, about a week and a half ago. We were amused by the passport checking station as they barely even glanced at our passports. A blank page was opened for a split second, just enough time to stamp. Those with Spanish passports simply held them up and they were ushered through without even looking at the photo! We immediately fell in love with Spain - it was nice to be in a place that was even more laid back than Australia (and warmer than England haha!) Little did we know that we had arrived on the first day of ´Santa Semena'which is a week long Easter celebration in Spain. We stumbled across the procession through the city streets which included very elaborate floats depicting Jesus and The Virgin Mary at various stations ... read more