Malaga; Sunday, 14 March, 2010

A very leisurely start to the day and I finally emerged from the hotel just after 11 to have a wander around town for a while, before heading over to the bus stop near the hotel to catch the bus out to the botanical gardens.

I had a long wander around the gardens taking in all the sites, but managed to get my timing completely wrong. I emerged with, what I though, was 5 minutes to spare before the next bus. Unfortunately, I had managed to pick the one hour in the day where there was no bus, so I was faced with either an hours wait for the next bus, or to walk back towards the city the way the bus had come, and pick up the more regular city bus.

In the end the walk didn’t take too long, which was thankful as it wasn’t particularly pleasant, walking along side a very fast road on only a thinly marked track, I was quite glad when I finally got to the bus stop.

The bus whisked me back into town and I was having a wander through the old town towards the Picasso museum trying to decide whether to go directly to the museum, or to have a late lunch, when I felt a spot of rain. Thinking fast I found a nearby restaurant and took a seat under cover for a late lunch just moments before the skies absolutely opened. The rain poured down for nearly 40 minutes, during which time I had a particularly pleasant meal! It was only as the rain was abating that I realised I would have been soaked if I had stayed up at the botanical gardens!

After lunch I walked over to the Picasso museum to have a look around and from there had a long wander around the rest of the old town taking in some of the squares and lanes I hadn’t previously been down.

I quickly popped back to the hotel to freshen up and drop off my bag before heading back out again for a wander down to the sea front, reaching the beach just as the final bits of light were fading. With the light finally gone I made my way back into the old town and grabbed a bite to eat.