Today, we arrived in Malaga, Spain. It was a place I had never been to and was not what I expected.
Malaga, Spain.
I went for breakfast and then to the coffee bar when I woke up. I sat having a coffee whilst I waited for Helen. When we left the ship, we got a bus to the port entrance and then walked around the town centre of Malaga for a while before heading towards the Roman theatre. After looking at the theatre, we walked past the Cathedral of Malaga, through the Dark Gate Gardens and up towards the Gibralfaro Castle. The walk was too much for me, and Helen had to stop to wait for me several times before we got to the top and paused to look back down and across the port of Malaga.
We then walked back down the pathway and passed through a tunnel under the Castle. We continued down the hill and when we got to the bottom, my legs were aching again. We stopped at Mercy Square in a small cafe for a tostada and a coffee and sat there until my legs ached a little less. From there, we walked through a maze of streets in Malaga, looking at all the different small churches and the grand architecture of the buildings until we got to the dry riverbed of the Guadalmedina. We then turned back towards the port and the main shopping centre.
As we walked around Malaga, we bumped into Kathy and Tony from the ship, and we stopped for a quick chat with them, discussing where we had been. We split up again, and after walking around looking at many different places, Helen and I stopped at the Atarazanas Central Market, where we sat and had some tapas and a drink. Afterwards, we left the market and walked back through Malaga. We walked through a square called Point Constitucion, which Helen had been to before. We stopped at a bakery called La Canasta that Helen liked on previous visits. It had a balcony overlooking the square so we sat upstairs on the balcony watching the world go round and shared a pastry whilst we had a drink.
When we finished our drink and pastry, we walked back through the shops to the port. My leg was by now very swollen, and I was in a lot of pain so I got the bus back to the ship whilst Helen walked back. When I returned to the ship, I showered and prepared for tonight's entertainment. I packed my case and then rested my leg as much as possible.
This evening, I joined Helen, Jean and Shaw for dinner. The meal was again delicious, and when we finished, we went to see the entertainment in the main theatre. After the show we went to the Beverley Hills Boulevard Bar to watch the entertainment there. Jean went to her cabin fairly early and Helen walked her back to her cabin before returning to sit with me to have a drink and watch our last night's entertainment. When the entertainment finished, we both went back to our cabins. I returned to my room at about 0:15 am and found a note telling me my luggage had to be outside my room at 11:30 pm. It would have been helpful to have had this in my room before I went to dinner. I placed my case outside and hoped the porter would still collect it.