Went to Maison and Tapas de Cervantes, as always in Malaga, spoke to Gabriel, the owner, he now has 6 places, we were at his first back in 2011, still loving them. When we rented the apartment, the girl who was handing over the keys gave us a couple of places, we have been to La Campana a couple of times - excellent and plan to go to Casa Vincete. We went to La Tranca as few times (empenados, music etc), great as always, the old La Trance called Colmado 93, still good, a new one to us, close by, Jamones, great free tapas. Hasta Los Andares in Soho is probably our find of Malaga this time, great wine and free Jamon, cheese tapas.
We have been to Alora, Nerja and Antequera with another one or two this week. Below are museums, food and photos
Alora is a small town about 40 minutes on the train from Malaga, when we were looking at what was on in the area, we saw the first Saturday was the Perotas Soups Day in Alora, so we went there. It was packed, there is free soup in the main square and lots of businesses, not just bars and restaurants give out free soup. The soup itself is not my sort of thing, put you have to join in, it's a bread soup with local vegetables and a side order of local olives
There was also a market, a great little municipal museum, with some paleolithic and Roman stuff and a nice little religious museum. Great day out.
We had a couple of days in our favourite Nerja, as always Pata Negra, all the tapas in Pepe Mole and the gambas pil-pil in La Puntilita were excellent. The small fish shop / tapas bar Pescadería el Artesano we found a while ago was again stunning:
For the first time in however many visits I at last made it to the little museum, lots of detail on the sugar cane and silk industries, neolithic history, linked to the Cuevas (haven't been there for years either) and a nice little art exhibition.
Antequera was a real find, an hour / hour and half north of Malaga by bus, nice little museum / art gallery with an exhibition by fabulous local artist Cristobal Toral and good paleolithic stuff, we visited tow of the Dolmens (megalithic tombs):
We ate at an excellent tapas bar Arte de Tapas, connected to a great looking restaurant Arte de Cozina:
We also had a tapas in a great local bar La Cantina that we could have spent the night in, there was a street market, with all the usual, but also birds of prey, loads of free games / toys / puzzles / bubbles for kids of all ages, seemed like a great little town, though very up and down.
More Malaga
Museo Jorge Rando was OK, the main Museum was great especially after visiting La Conception, the Botanic Gardens / Stately home / old museum about 20 min north on local bus, as this was the start of archaeology museum-ship in Malaga:
La Farola De Orellana as always was great, especially the costillas:
Craft market on pier on Sunday was good, lunch in Carmen market was spectacular, I've been shopping in Atarazanas market most days for veg, fish and meat, really enjoyed cooking with great ingredients, prices generally very good, although some very good meat was priced accordingly, so we paid more than we planned, but gorgeous
A week left will update more shortly I hope
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