Day 16 - Best walking tour ever?

Málaga

We have decided we quite like Málaga, it seems to have a bit of everything, modern shops, history, old buildings and the beach.

We join our fourth walking tour of the trip and find its the best we have done - they really come down to the quality of the guide. Firstly the guide's English was so much better than the others, some have been a little difficult to understand. He was also pleasantly funny but best of all he was really interesting. Rather that rattling off names and dates, he told some really interesting stories about the city and its history. We have done these tours in a lot of European countries and many could learn how to do it from Luís! We now look at the cathedral totally differently, even though we have a fantastic view from our apartment we hadn't noticed that it wasn't finished. According to Luís originally it wasn't finished because of a lack of funding, but when funding became available the people of Málaga decided they would rather be different and have an unfinished cathedral, than be like every other city!

Spot the bullring

We headed to the railway station where the car hire companies had offices to book a car for the next day, only to be told that the rate for booking in person was nearly double what we would get online - so of course we headed back to the "penthouse" and booked it online.

After that we did a self guided tour of yet another Alcázar, this one had nice, though small gardens, great views of the harbour, and an interesting ceramic exhibition depicting the wares of the era.