Costa del Sol, Málaga & Granada, Spain - 2019 Trip - Day One: Malaga City – Part One (inc. video)
What I had planned to be a “cheap as chips” four day break to my favourite quick & easy destination, Malaga, Spain, turned out to be more of a travel trip instead of lying on the beach everyday! when I was planning to go I thought just one day I’d like to travel out to somewhere out of Costa del Sol, I was looking into going to Granada and visiting the wonderful Alhambra but wow, I didn’t realise how popular this place is! just to book tickets into the most famous part of the palace, the ‘Plaza de Nazaríes’, you need to book three months in advance due to the Spanish limiting the number of tourists who can visit in a day – I had one week to find a ticket!!! did I make it? just by the skin of my teeth I found one opening on the Thursday I was going to be there so I snapped it up and sorted out my coach ticket 🙂
As well as spending an extremely long day visiting Granada (I was up at 5am to catch a train to Malaga, then a 2.5 hr coach ride to the city), I also checked out my favourite cosmopolitan city, Malaga, where I was staying Benalmadena, Fuengirola via a boat trip and a surprise last day I visited the amazing Malaga Airport Museum which was a bit of a find near the existing airport where I left my bag in storage before I headed back home to blighty!
As ever – enjoy the photos from this great trip! 🙂
Junta De Andalucía Consejería De Cultura - a local government office but more importantly, a great bit of brutalist architecture!The 'Guadalmedina' is a river (now a river bed) that runs through the city of Malaga, historically it has divided the city in two halvesBrilliant murals on the side of this housing blockNow that the 'Guadalmedina' river bed is dry it's turned into a bit of a graffiti wall of fameYoung & hip longboarder hits the Malaga streetsLooks like this lovely old Spanish building is up for demolition or renovationHey kermy...Great graffiti on the side of this old building - big up Open Source!Pure SwagAwesome robot grafLike the angle I got here, the colours pop out nicelyThere's some outstanding street art in Malaga city, this is one of my favourites!The Mercado Central de Atarazanas - Malaga's favourite indoor marketAbanico de Feria - a fan shaped pastryTraditional Spanish churros - these got dipped into that coffee, oh yes...If you look closely you can see the 'Capirote' pointed hats which are part of the brotherhoods in SpainAnother nice bit of wall art on the back of a school yardThe famous skate spot in Malaga! down by the portMomument to the poet and journalist Salvador Rueda Santos in the wonderful Parque de MálagaParque de Málaga - Malaga Park is a beautiful spot and one of my favourites in the whole of Spain, all assortments of palm trees line this walkway along the harbour of MalagaOne of the statues and fountains you can see in Malaga ParkHotel situated by the beach of Playa la MalaguetaStatue of Antonio Cánovas del Castillo, six terms Spanish Prime MinisterSegway tours of Malaga are very popularOne of my favourite shots of Malaga street life - it's the dusky hazy sunshine mist that makes it...
