Malaga

One of the worlds oldest cities (2800 +years) and the centrepiece of Spains famed Costa del Sol, Malaga welcomed us into port on a beautiful sunny Easter morning.

We disembarked following a lovely seaside promenade into downtown Malaga. It was respectfully quiet, today being good Friday, with only a handful of the many coffee shops and restaurant's en route open. Walking into the city centre on impulse we jumped on board a horse carriage for an orientation ride around the citys' s parkland and water front areas. With everything momentarily quiet this was an enjoyable experience as our driver in broken english pointed out the many areas of interest !

With our bearings sorted and our carriage driver happily paid, we walked past Malaga's imposing cathedral and begun our climb up steep marble style paths to the Gilbralfaro fort (originally a light house)  a 10th century design with outstanding views over the port of Malaga !

After numerous pics we descended to find that the city had awoken in our short absence and become a teeming mass of humanity enjoying the holiday and Easter celebrations.

As the hordes appeared so did the heat with temperatures quickly climbing as we made our way back to our ship past shops and one very poignant photographic display of images taken during the refugee crisis when families put themselves at risk trying to make landfall in Europe. Anyone seeing these images could not be anything but compassionate to their plight !

Back on deck it was time for a late lunch and a couple of berry smoothies as we set sail from our last port en route to Rome !

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