Malaga

I wrote a separate blog post about getting to and home from Malaga which I will post later. This is just about the city. Malaga isn't promoted as a major attraction compared to Granada, Sevilla, Cordoba, etc; but we really enjoyed our day there. It probably helped that the weather was spectacular...

And that temp was taken at 5:30 PM!! A large part of the main downtown core is walking streets only. It makes getting around easy and very comfortable. The people there were so friendly and there were far fewer tourists. 

An early highlight was the "live" statues they had in the streets. Many were rather neat, but by far the coolest was this one (both people were real)...

We had lunch at what i would say is a traditional tapas bar. It was so busy, the waiters worked so hard and couldn't keep up. It was delicious. 

Our next stop was the Alcazaba. It is indicated as a "mini-Alhambra". Given we missed out on the Alhambra we cannot do a direct comparison... which is really too bad because we really enjoyed the Alcazaba. It cost 7 Euros for us all to get in. Again, it was not all that stroller friendly, but the guards let us leave it at the door and we put Emily in the carrier. This time Mark was on baby duty and I was on camera duty. Selecting pictures will be difficult for this post as we took a ton! A good part of the Alcazaba has been rebuilt, but they have done a really neat job of it. You can walk freely throughout the grounds and you can climb on the walls and everywhere... something I doubt you can do at the Alhambra (although it is probably original with less rebuilding). A few pics... if you want to see more we took a ton here...

After the Alcazaba we headed back to the Cathedral. Unfortunately our timing was a bit off and it was closing in 30 minutes. It was 5 Euros to get in (each) and we didn't feel like shelling out the money. I read after that it is not just a cathedral, but more like a museum as it has lots of artifacts etc. It would have been neat to see if we had more time. It looked massive from the outside. Again it seemed like the town was preparing for more Easter celebrations/festivals, but this time we decided to head out before they came.