Panorama of Málaga

So the next few pictures are from the old Moorish castle.

Bellow the castle at the old Roman theatre.

View on the main promenade

The main promenade

Corrida de torros de Málaga. Bull fighting arena.

Going up to the castle

Walls

Paradise inside

Roofs

An old boat in the port

After Madrid we continued in the bullet train to Málaga. We went 340km/h which is an unbelievable speed for somebody who is used to czech railways, a company who thinks that Italian shit Pendolino is a train from heaven. In the speed well over 300km/h the train even didn’t move. If we wouldn’t have windows, we wouldn’t think that we are on the way. Even the speed didn’t look that fast until you passed something that was really close. Like a station, there you could see what’s going on. Just great.

The bullet train. Kačenka…

The speed was just unbelievable!

Some pictures are shot by Tomáš (http://mocicka.net/ – he should make some web site, I tell it all the time! [-; ), usually those who start with underscore. Have a look at his small gallery at flickr.

The place where lives my cousin

Cousin’s house. We were on the very top barrels one night… [-;

Spaniards are really crazy. They don’t even have more constructions than France, UK and Germany together, but they also gut everything inside the buildings, keep the walls, and rebuild it from new.

On sunday we were watching formula 1

We were watching formula1. And Hamilton won! Yes! F*** Ferrari

Waiting for chestnut.

Port

Typical Spanish cities nowadays are surprisingly quite clean. However, mostly their houses are just rubbish. I’m not talking only about the quality, but also the facades are dirty, but you know what? It doesn’t matter in some situations. Like in the next picture.

Near my cousin’s house

Do you think that he helps you?

Very African. Or did I say Spanish? [-;

Typical Spanish

I forget to mention it. For everybody who knows Czech, there is my article about Easter in Málaga at net magazine Hedvábná stezka.

On monday I rushed from Saarbrucken directly to Málaga to visit my cousin Dita. The flight actually was horrible. All the time it was ok, but I have never experienced such steep landing. The pilot went really straight down. We were landing thru mountains – this is not usual direction of landing in Málaga. I experienced many fall downs, and shaking which is not really nice. But the worst was when probably some passenger tried to stand up, and steward shouted to us that we should stay seated, that it’s gonna be dangerous. Well, at this moment, I just imagined what the hell is gonna happen? I was glad to be on the land.

Anyway – all the bad things were already over, and I met with my cousin Dita, and his boyfriend Nat. I have seen lot of things, but what more – I enjoyed doing nothing. And this is important! Sometimes you just have to do nothing. Dunno how to explain it, but you will hopefully understand. When man just can wake up whenever he wants. When I can slowly move out of my bed. When I don’t have to rush anywhere. When everything what I am doing is being done slowly, and without that stress which follows us at home. This is nice face of Spain. Even busy capital Madrid is like that. (Translation for all born in central europe: people don’t care about anything, you just have to wait like idiot everywhere on everything, and it takes ages, people are very slow, buses are going whenever driver wakes up to start the bus, and indeed, there much more!!! [[-; )

Dita and Nat

Nat gave me great guided tour around Málaga center. I have seen all the important things there – old Moorish castle Alcazaba and Gibralfaro. Alcazaba is the older Moorish castle, but because it was not strong enough, they built a new one little bit higher which is called Gibralfaro. Very nice, and very different from Czech castles. The inside part is full of gardens, and places where you can rest. Just have a look at pics.

Paradise inside the fortress

View from Gibralfago to Alcazaba

Gardens in Gibralfaro

Water channel in the castle

More info at English wikipedia and even more at Spanish wikipedia

Pictures HERE

I have to say I really enjoyed Málaga.

Some pictures

Sea side of Málaga

Dita and Nat