Málaga, España

Hello out there! I have been neglecting my little blog and I have missed it greatly.  We had a busy summer and the blog posts are stacking up in my head so it’s time to get them out there finally.  Summer is a usually busy time anyway because you have to squeeze all the fun outdoor things in before winter comes.  But this year we had new music camps, a family reunion and an unexpected trip to attend the wedding of my brother and his partner of 22 years, whew!  Now that school has started again and fall is here, it’s time to get back to one of my favorite things, creating blog posts.  I hope you all will keep coming back :)

I had been creating a post a week about our trip to Spain earlier this year and I had at least one more that I didn’t create.  This one is about Málaga, the city we still think we want to retire to.  We started our trip in this charming coastal town in southern Spain.  We viewed a beautiful sunset as our plane descended and then spent the next four days holding our noses as we passed piles of trash all over the place.  I noticed the piles from our taxi as we drove into town.  We managed to be in Málaga during a trash workers strike! Hmmmm…..our timing was perfect eh?  Well it will certainly be something I’ll never forget!  We tried to not let it bother us but one pile was just steps away from our hotel and you’ll see a photo of it below.

We did so many fun things, some of which I blogged about earlier this year.  We paid another visit to the Picasso museum, toured the Alcazaba, spent an afternoon with a blogger friend who showed us cool street art, ate fabulous food and drank the sweet wines of Málaga.  If you missed either of my previous posts about Málaga, do click on the links and check them out.  I think you’ll enjoy them.

One day it rained a little and we decided to spend that time at the Centre Pompidou.  The city of Málaga signed a 5 year agreement with France’s Centre Pompidou to use its name and display pieces from its collection. These works of art date from 1905 forward.  In searching for a bit of information I found this article that gives more details about this lovely museum. The Pompidou allows photos so I’ve created a gallery of those.

I hope you’ll enjoy these photos from Málaga, including the photo at the top of the page.  This was taken from the roof of our wonderful hotel, Molina Lario, which I highly recommend. Málaga is still at the top of our list of places to retire.  A ver lo que pasa (we’ll see what happens)!!

descending into Málaga

ayuntamiento (city hall)

statue about refugees, wish I had taken a photo of the caption

Atarazanas market window from the outside

close-up of Atarazanas market window

with Hans Christian Andersen who loved Málaga

I can almost smell the eau de trash

mmmmm, churros y chocolate, Casa Aranda Málaga

cool sculpture on Larios street

the cathedral from our hotel’s roof

And a few from the Pompidou museum:

we called him the Michelin man

tin foil sculptures of women praying

interactive exhibit – that’s my hand print

the colorful cube in the distance is the Pompidou museum

If you’d like to see more of the artworks, check out their official website. I will definitely be returning when I’m next in Málaga. Here’s one last photo of the cube and the beautiful skies of one of my favorite cities in Spain: