Málaga to Ávila
A quick metro trip to the main Málaga railway station with all of our luggage to collect our hire car for the next week. Pickup was smooth so off we headed on the long drive to Ávila, 600+ kms and 6 hours of driving on a mostly quiet highway, the lack of traffic in either direction felt quite strange.
We struggled to find a quick lunch stop as instead of the road side stops we're used to with multiple meal options, we had the choice of a sit down restaurant or snacks from the petrol station. We eventually found a bakery and a cafeteria where we could fashion a basic lunch before pushing on. We did miss a turn off to get back on to the highway and found ourselves driving through a deserted village where it seemed no-one lived.
We drove around the edge of Madrid as the rain started but fortunately it had cleared by the time we arrived in Ávila. We found our hotel right outside the old town wall by one of the entrances.
After checking in we walked to a plaza where we settled down with a drink and free tapas to people watch while waiting for friends David and Nuria to arrive. They did really well to humour us with the Aussie meeting time of 7.30pm while trying to stretch the evening out to their normal dinner time of 10pm.
The first place they took us to for tapas was the hotel they had their wedding reception at, then on to a lovely restaurant for a dinner of shared dishes and drinks, finishing off with walking us back to our hotel around the city wall, finally falling into bed around midnight.
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