Wed 21.Jan.2015
Malaga, Spain
imagery dates: April 2014
Two guidebooks that I respect differ sharply on Malaga. One loathes
it, the other loves it. Only one way to find out...
T'isn't your historical, romantic Spain that an American probably comes
looking for. But it is a pleasant and stylish enough modern city. Far
more appealing than the cookie-cutter high-rise horrors that dominate the
Costa del Sol to the immediate east and west.
We'll be here for a couple of pages at least.
Cathedral de la Encarnacion
Signs
Use me!
Your guess is as good as mine on
this one. I think Bra
was the colloquial
name for some museum.
I'll be back in Malaga
next month.
If the sign is still there, I'll see
whether I can
dig more information out of it.
Malaga, with its surrounding coast, is a major center
of English
package tourists and expats. Here is a
Spanish idea of an Englishman's
idea of American
food. I don't remember looking inside.
There are Moorish style tea houses here, with these typical lamps that I
think of as Turkish, but I expect here they are Moorish. A quite
different sort of establishment from Ye Olde Englishe Tea House
The cruise ship port.
Like Granada and Sevilla, Malaga has a grand old Moorish palace-cum-fortress complex. The Alcazaba is less spectacular than its more famous
counterparts, but still a fine afternoon's entertainment. We'll see more of it
in another post.
