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TRAVEL. SPAIN
Discovering Malaga in the Time of the Pandemic
Travelling in Covid-19 time and what you learn about the cities
What do you know about Malaga?
I knew nothing before we went last summer. We went to discover it. It was Coronavirus time.
What happened?
We ended up buying a little house in the Malaga mountains, which is about a 15-minute drive to the centre of Malaga. No, it wasn’t an impulse buy. It was a well-researched buy. It was the beginning of Covid-19 too. We had the time to research things.
Malaga is in Al-Andalus. It’s the fourth largest city in the region after Seville. Malaga is not a show-off city either.
It’s a city for the cool dudes who understand the beat of the soul.
The weather is great. It’s got the sea breeze and it’s got the heat. It’s never too hot but hot enough to feel the summer on your face.
Malaga is in the Andalusia region in Spain. What’s Andalusia? It’s a magical place. Where the shade of the pomegranate trees would tell you the most beautiful and harshest history ever. The true history. Not the one you hear in the tour guides today. Not the non-existent fairytales of…
