Spain and Beyond

Daily Drena: Let’s get out of this city quickly!

Malaga is a big city, and we immediately have a strong distaste for it. It’s noisy and busy, and doesn’t have the old charm like other cities and towns we’ve visited. There are some cool sights, but overall it just feels dirty. It doesn’t help that this weekend is a big party weekend because of the holiday. It also doesn’t help that I couldn’t sleep because of all the noise outside our hostel most of the night.

We walk to the beach through cruise ship commercialism, and then find a cool trail in the woods up to the Gibralfaro castle. However, the real reason we came to this town is for the Picasso museum and it doesn’t disappoint. After experiencing dirty, loud streets all day, Drew and I separate. Drew finds an Italian restaurant and a soccer game to watch while I enter the most pristine, white-walled quiet building to take in Picasso almost all to myself. Apparently from 6-8p on Sunday’s, the museum is free, and I arrived at 4:45 so everyone was waiting to go later. It was worth the 7 euros to have my own private viewing. When I left, the line was wrapped around the building.