We passed the rock of Gibraltar and into the Mediterranean Sea during the night and docked in Málaga early in the morning. Málaga is a good-sized town on the Costa del Sol and is the birthplace of Pablo Picasso. The weather was in the low 80s today and slightly overcast, which was fortunate as it would have been very hot in the full sun. Today we did our own tour by starting with a city bus ride to the see the Castillo de Gibralfaro which is on a mountain with a great view of Málaga and the harbor (see picture). You can see our ship at the left in the photo and it is the largest in port today. Gilbralfaro is an old Moorish castle which protected the city for many years. For more than 700 years Málaga was ruled by the Moors until the Christians took over in the 15th century. We finished our tour by visiting the Cathedral and a smallish Picasso Museum in town and then walking around doing window shopping. Sometimes touring on your own can be a logistical problem, but today everything went well. The busses were well timed and we didn’t have to wait or walk much.
We did get one bit of bad news. There were two bad earthquakes yesterday in Lorca, Spain, which killed at least 8 people. This was the first fatal earthquake in Spain in 55 years. Lorca is a very small town that almost no one outside of Spain knows of, but it is a problem for us as Lorca is where we have a room booked on Tuesday and we don’t know if the hotel is still standing. Most of the town is shut down and sleeping outside so we are going to have to find another hotel elsewhere.
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