this past weekend me and a group of my 7 friends went to málaga (home of picasso) which is a 2.5 hr train ride from sevilla. we stayed in a hostel named "picasso's backpackers hostel" and the guy at the desk was a little cute french man named pier who we made friends with. we arrived too early to check into our rooms so we decided to kill some time by getting a beer (obviously). so we went to an irish pub where they served international beers and this one on the menu sounded delectable: desperado, a light beer with a hit of tequila (and more that i cant remember). so i ordered it and what do they bring out? a freakin corona!!! and it cost me 3 euros! if i had known it was a corona i would have ordered a more exotic beer that i dont drink every day in the states....stupid irish bar!
anwyways so we finally check in, change and go to the beach. i immediately passed out. i was running on 1 hour of sleep because our train was at 7am and i had to catch a bus at 630 and it takes me 30 mins to walk to the bus station. so we had the bright idea to stay out all night and never go to bed. that plan lasted until 5 when i couldnt stand up anymore so i slept for an hour. needless to say i slept like a corpse. the easiest thing to fall asleep to is the sound of the ocean....
that night we cooked dinner. we had homemade guacamole, pasta salad, burgers and fruit salad. it was amazing. we feasted. it was glorious. so we went out that night, got kidnapped by some spanish man who said he could get us into the "most exclusive club" in malaga. i've seen better in sevilla but we still had a blast. when we tried to leave they locked the doors and wouldnt let us out for a while!! it was funny/scary all at once
saturday was kinda rainy so we decided to pack for the beach and do some sight-seeing until it cleared up. so we went to the picasso museum (my 2nd - 1st was in barcelona) which was nice as expected. and then we climbed "the great wall of malaga" as we called it. its really a fortress or castle or really big wall, i dont know. but its goes all the way up this mini mountain and you can see all of malaga from it. it was breath-taking. i could have spent hours up there just looking out into the ocean, or turn around and look at the beautiful mountains right behind us. as we were walking down i realized i lost a sandal!!! just one!!! i had put them in the side pockets of my backpack so i could wear them on the beach and one fell out!!!! bummer!!! so i guess now i have an excuse to buy some new shoes ;-)
lunch that day we found some crazy pita place that in an odd way reminded me of chipotle (but nothing is better than chipotle). the important part of this restaurant was that i had bbq sauce on my pita....again glorious. and we met this mexican (yes mexican, not spanish) guy who told us to go to his friends bar (another mexican) where we could get free mojitos! so of course we went! but before we went to the coolest seafood restaurant right on the beach! it was all fried food (yummmmmm) and the waiters would walk around with plates in their hands, screaming out what it was and you would just point and say "¡queremos este!" (we want that!). it was all sooooo good and we had no idea what we were eating. after we botelloned (buy beer/wine/alcohol from the grocery store and drink in the streets - very spanish) on the beach and then got our free mojitos! our gorgeous mexican took us to a discoteca, and next thing i knew it was 630am and we were still dancing! on the way back to the hostel we got kebobs and then passed out for 4.5 hrs until we had to check out. when we finally woke up we got dunkin coffee (its what they call dunkin donuts) and laid on the beach until our train left.
this was definitely my favorite trip so far and has been the inspiration behind my new life plan: graduate college, move to malaga and be a waitress/bartender.....sounds good right?!?!
¡besos!
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