After spending a lovely week in Madrid being Tourists and catching up with family & friends we headed off early Friday morning to meet up with our Bla Bla car. What is a Bla Bla car? I hear you think. It is a ride sharing website, similar to Uber but for longer distances. With some anxiety we arrived at the car park outside the Real Madrid Football Stadium to meet our BlaBla car. It is a convenient walk from Manny's Aunt, where we were staying. Being old, we got there with enough time to have coffee, go to the toilet and still be 15 minutes early. Our driver, Andi, was late due to the heavy traffic. A little more anxiety. Then the third passenger was waiting in the wrong place and had to make his way round to us, once Andi got hold of him. To our surprise, he had been in the bar having coffee when we did. He wasn't old too but had flown in from Majorca that morning. We thought we had an early start. Finally we headed into the Madrid traffic and we were very grateful to not be driving the 500kms to Malaga. Andi proved to be a good driver and the other passenger, a gregarious fellow. The car was comfortable and we enjoyed the journey. We got to Malaga mid afternoon, hungry and with no accommodation. Andi had dropped us a close walk to the city centre. The first Plaza we got to had an Irish Pub with drunken Englishmen ordering beer, loudly, which was a bit of a culture shock for us, after weeks of Spanish immersion. We sought refuge in a 'Spanish'ish bar and had some food. The waiter was fascinated by Manny's excellent Spanish, he is always being complimented on it by Spaniards. Anyhow he gave us some guidance on finding a place to stay and we called into 3 places that looked fabulous and were full. The last rang ahead for us to a pension with a vacancy & gave us directions. We headed off into a bit of a dodgy looking area and found the Pension. I said to Manny, make sure they show us the room first. We learnt the hard way on the Camino but put up with the room because we were out the door at sparrows. Anyhow need not have worried, the Pension was cheap & really nice.
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May 2019
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