{"id":5460,"date":"2020-01-12T02:53:31","date_gmt":"2020-01-12T10:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/?p=5460"},"modified":"2020-02-10T08:59:27","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T16:59:27","slug":"malaga-where-the-rain-in-spain-falls-mostly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/malaga-where-the-rain-in-spain-falls-mostly\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaga \u2013 Where the Rain in Spain Falls Mostly\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

in Vancouver, or Ottawa, or Atlantic Canada.  But not here.  At least so far.  Sunshine and 18 degrees.  We suffered through the last 2 months on the wet coast and that was enough.  We hear it\u2019s even worse now with Vancouver set for snow and cold, so we are going to enjoy the winter break here in Andalusia and this may become an annual thing as winter in any part of Canada is not really appealing anymore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Waiting at the Heathrow Airport Bus Station<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Malaga is\nthe start of another 3+ months in Spain but we\u2019re only here for a week to start\nwith.  We are still adjusting to the\noverseas traveling with the long flights and the serious jetlag that comes with\nit.  This year we took an afternoon\nnon-stop to London.  We got in around\nnoon, stayed overnight, switched airports and flew into Malaga the next day.  The jetlag is much better but we\u2019re still a\nlittle tired so a short stop here with no pressure to do things is\nperfect.  We are on to Jerez again at the\nend of the week, then a while in Marbella, and back to Malaga for a month to\nproperly explore the city.  It\u2019s nice to\nbe back to warmth, good food, and cheap alcohol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There will\nbe a few things here to check out when we come back later. Besides the usual,\nmuseums, art galleries, and grand cathedrals, there is a large Moorish fortification\ncalled the Alcazaba that sits high on the hilltop and another fort on another\nhilltop called the Castillo de Gilbrafaro that we can easily walk to.  There\u2019s a nearby cliff walk called the Caminito\ndel Rey that looks interesting and of course, we\u2019ll be here when Semana Santa\n(holy week) starts and that\u2019s a big deal in Malaga.  More photos of KKK pointy heads for all of\nyou.  And there\u2019s beaches to walk on.  So, there\u2019ll be more to write about over the\nnext few months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I guess it\u2019s\nconsidered winter (and cool-ish) here in Malaga as the locals all seem to be\nwearing parkas and fur coasts.  For this Canuck\ncowboy it\u2019s shorts weather and by mid-day we are finding it quite warm. However,\nI am reluctant to venture out in \u2018tourist\u2019 attire as I suspect I will get a lot\nof strange looks.  Even in a short sleeve\nshirt I feel conspicuous.  I wonder what\nthat\u2019s like\u2026to have never experienced 0 degrees or minus temperatures.  Sounds like a goal to strive towards!  I\u2019m sure y\u2019all back on the west coast can\ntell us, with the weather coming your way, but don\u2019t bother\u2026we don\u2019t care. 😊<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Like other parts of Spain Malaga has lots of gorgeous architecture<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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in Vancouver, or Ottawa, or Atlantic Canada.  But not here.  At least so far.  Sunshine and 18 degrees.  We suffered through the last 2 months on the wet coast and that was enough.  We hear it\u2019s even worse now with Vancouver set for snow and cold, so we are going to enjoy the winter break here in Andalusia and this may become an annual thing as winter in any part of Canada is not really appealing anymore. Malaga is the start of another 3+ months in Spain but we\u2019re only here for a week to start with.  We are still adjusting to the overseas traveling with the long flights and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[28,29,30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5460"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5460"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5512,"href":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5460\/revisions\/5512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}