Hotel Casa Vazquez Málaga

After days at sea we had a short stop in Malaga before docking the next day back in Savona. I have decided that I am not crazy about the days at sea. Even though I really enjoyed all the ports, I don't think I would do anther big curise. The fact that there were only small number of people who spoke enlgish on the ship was interesting. So wanted to speak another language .. any lanaugage. Even when I told the Germans I did nto speak Germann they kept talking!

... winning again, 900 euro to be exact) or playing golf. Perfect!

One of our day´s we drove to Gibraltar, which is only about 1.5 hours drive away, but actually a part of England(?). I absolutely loved it, not because of the English-ness (Marks and Sparks, etc) but because of the MONKEYS!! I LOVE MONKEYS!! We drove up the side of the "rock" and visited a cave (pretty cool, but nowhere near as good as the ones down south ...

... ham, and beef. She said it was very traditional and that you mix it all up and dip your bread on it. It was so good. It reminded me of Thanksgiving. Then tonight the ISA group had a dinner at a restaurant (they rented it out) it was so good. Wine, salad, mashed potatoes, pumpkin pie, gravy, cranberry type sauce, and some kind of meat. We later found out that the meat was turkey with stuffing. It was really good. I can't remember ...

Malaga is the major city near Frigiliana (where the train dropped us off). We spent a day there when we picked up Jaime and Rob at the train station. Some highlights:

• Watching Jaime and Rob come off the train and meet us in Spain
• The Picasso Museum – a wonderful ...
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... Christian and Jewish. This was the last hold-out by the Moors in at the end of the 15th Century before being completely driven from Spain (before which the 3 cultures lived peacefully together). Frigiliana has also been voted the most beautiful village in Spain and Andalusia numerous times. All the buildings are painted white and are perched on the side of a mountain. It is truly idyllic.

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Malaga was very nice. It's on the east coast of Spain and has really good weather. We stayed at a very good hostel, Casa Babylon. While we were there, on of the friends of the hostel owners had a birthday party there. The friend, Fernando, was an amazing Flamenco guitar player and he and a bunch of other musicians played music all night long.

... The Alcazaba is also situated right next to an old Roman amphitheater, which was uncovered just a few years ago. There is so much history on that hill! After la Alcazaba, I decided to make the hike to Monte de Gibralfaro, which is an even older castle located precariously on the top of the gigantic hill. It took me around an hour of hiking straight up to reach the top, and I was exhausted when I reached Gibralfaro. The views of Malaga ...

... Driving over Lemons, which is by a British guy who moved to the Alpujarras to eek out a living with his wife and daughter raising sheep and olives, lemons, etc. It was an interesting read about how these upper middle class people make a home among Spanish peasants and other ex-pats. I am trying to read and soak in some additional information about Spain. I have now moved on to a book by a British journalist who has lived in Madrid for years, called Ghosts of Spain. It is sort of ...

... a cop, he checked all me documents and was happy. Went to an Irish bar, as I figured thats where any english speakers would be.... yeah right.... One night, Leni cooked dinner, and I started on my speciality - garlic bread. After about a minute under the grill, something started smoking... hmm... then some green stuff started dripping on the bread, took that out, and smoke was getting worse, turned the grill off, and a fire started in the top grill. After eating ...

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