In Malaga: Market Monday & Tuesday

After a dip in the sea on Monday morning we headed to the Malaga food market. The selection of fruit, vegetables and meat is incredible and the sights and smells are great. I've been to bigger more impressive markets on my travels but I like this one as it is small and accessible and spotlessly clean. There is also a fish part of the market but this was closed on the Monday that we visited.

Check out the Moorish entrance in the pic at the top - it is so attractive looking. The market is definitely worth visiting and you can get tapas and a beer on little tables just outside.

Later in the day it was time to go to the Padel Courts where Ciaran had lined up a game. I'd like to say that the sun was going down and the heat was leaving the day but can't given that it had reached well over 30 degrees during the day. It was hot for me watching but I was able to get a cold Coke Zero from the Snack Bar - I can only imagine how hot it was playing! He brought plenty of water with him.

The Padel Court was up on the roof of a gym which is pretty cool in my book!

On Tuesday our monitors arrived. I was wondering how this would be done, given that we are living in a pedestrianised area of Malaga. I had seen couriers making deliveries on bikes stacked with parcels and also DHL pull carts by bike. Our delivery came by what I presume is a little electric car. So clean and efficient it came right up to our apartment. Malaga is such a smart and civilised city and this is certainly one of the ways that makes it so.

After visiting the new studio for PIGSY we sat in Constitution Square and cooled off with a drink. I had my first ever Aperol Spritz which was just perfect in the heat. I highly recommend them and am a fan for sure!

And we finished another great day in Malaga with dinner on our terrace - not so late this time, I think we were eating by 8pm or so. Dinner was again simple, I cooked some spicy chicken that we enjoyed with salad.

After dinner we listened to an episode of the BBC podcast of Anne Enright's book "The Actress" (thanks to Cousin Kasey for the suggestion).  We are really enjoying it and are just listening to an episode a night.  It's read by the author and we are very much enjoying it. Listening to talking books or podcasts is not something we regularly do but we have enjoyed at times in the past.  At this time we only have Spanish television so after watching the news (where we try to follow along given that we don't speak Spanish) this is something novel for us to do and as I said we are very much enjoying it!