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málaga tuesday

27 Tuesday Aug 2013

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malaga tuesday
Woke up this morning with a very cuddly Morcilla purring all over the place. I think she misses her playmates a bit and has become a bit clingy here, so I’m giving her lots of extra attention. Then while I was having coffee and having a look online I got a message from twitter pal David @IrlandesnMalaga about maybe meeting up today, something we never managed to do the last time I was here. And it was looking like we might not manage it this time as David kept suggesting early morning coffee somewhere since he is busy in the afternoons but – you know – I’m on holiday! And my lazy slow mornings are so lovely…

Finally David reorganised his schedule so we could meet at noon for a “quick beer” and a chat, which ended up stretching out for almost four hours and included a walk over to the market for some seafood at Cafe-Bar Atarazanas after we’d had some snacks at my “local” bar Los Gatos. David brought along his rescue pup Nina, who is such a sweetie. Her background is a sad one, first with an abusive owner, then spending two years at a shelter, before David took her home. And you can tell she is well-loved and happy now, lucky girl.

Anyhow, David and I were trying to figure out when we first met and turns out it was three years ago, one of the times I was here doing some work for the Málaga winery. Three years! So we had a nice time catching up and sharing all our news. Have I ever mentioned how much I love Twitter? I mean, yesterday I’d stopped in at Los Gatos for a quick beer before lunch and suddenly got a tweet from Mark & Jo saying they were in town shopping and that I should stay put – five minutes later they met me for a quick drink and visit before they had to head home to Estepa! And most of this week will also be filled with going out with friends I mostly met on Twitter. Nice.

Now I think I’ll take an evening stroll and stop for a tapita somewhere. It’s supposed to get all stormy here this week so I want to get out as much as possible while the lovely warm (but not too hot) weather holds.

What did you do today?

another fabulous málaga day

27 Saturday Jul 2013

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loleta
These fabulous things keep happening to me. Woke up this morning, my last full day in Málaga, wondering what to do. I knew my friend Victor (We Love Malaga) was busy and other friends were away… so what to do on this last day in town? And so I got on Twitter and asked what I should do. And bless, there were suddenly all kinds of very kind and interesting replies and suggestions, including one from the guy I’m renting my FAB APARTMENT from @lerele and also from @LoletabyLoleta (her blog is here). And they both recommended a place called Pez Tomillo in Pedregalejo. So I googled it and saw it was a new bar here in Málaga started by the same group who run three very successful and trendy bars in Sevilla – and I know the chef Ernesto Malasana! So this was all just sounding too good to be true – had to do it, right?

Then Loleta got in touch with me by private message on Twitter saying she would love to join me, with her husband Juanje and 10-year-old son Javier (who is in a competition to become a junior Masterchef). And thus the afternoon all came together and was fabulous. I walked over to Pedregalejos, the old fishermen’s quarter about 45 minutes from the centre of town. And when I got to Pez Tomillo I saw there were family and friends from Sevilla I knew working there. And then Loleta and family turned up.

We ate very well, though we all thought the wine list NEEDED to have Botani on it. Curiously the menu was almost exactly the same as at Bar Antojo back home. I’d thought they’d be doing more typical fish stuff, but then it did seem a good idea to offer the barrio something a bit different from the usual over there. I truly wish them luck as I think it’s a place with lots of heart … and also very good food.

At the end of our lunch young Javier cut open the hot chocolate coulante to great effect…