Malagar

We have caught up with a couple of dedicated walkers on this boat. This afternoon while we are blobbing in our cabin they are hiking back to the ship from the high hill that overlooks Malagar. See the photos for their identity.
  The weather today is fine and sunny but quite cold. The town is quite pretty, with its old style Spannish buildings. The buildings feature wrought iron balconies and roofs made of curved terracotta tyles. The public buildings are very elaborate with fancy brick work, Grecian columns and wrought iron lace.
    The gardens are beautiful. There is an amazing variety of plants. Anything that does well in a warm dry MEDITERRANIAN climate  is thriving : Roses, Jaccaranda, Ficus, Geranium, Beauhinia and my absolute pet hate BOGANVILLIA, all loving it. We saw a huge bottle tree (Boab ?)completely covered with beautiful pink flowers. It was a first. I have seen boabs in WA, but nothing like this lovely tree.
     Malaga  has a Roman Theatre and an impressive cathedral. The piece de resistance and most important thing in town is the bull ring that seats 10 thousand people. Poor old bulls! They always lose.
    This morning's  excursion was to the Picasso Art Gallery. There is a very comprehensive  collection. Photos not allowed and post cards featuring them very expensive.  A nice little monopoly. Sailing this evening for Cadiz.