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We’d decided to have a leisurely breakfast this morning followed by some relaxing time on the Grills Terrace to let the hoards of day trippers vacate the ship. This was a good idea even though it was overcast early on the sun broke through soon enough and we has a toasty deck 11 all to ourselves. Jane even ventured into the Jacuzzi to get a good bubbling.
Once she’d dried off it was time for us to follow the rest of the ship into Malaga. We’d decided to eat off the ship, possibly tapas or paella depending on what took our fancy. We were off the ship ion after exiting through the gift shop we were down by the shuttle busses. We then had a discussion, walk or bus ? It was decided we’d walk, the chap on marshalling people onto the bus reckoned 30 minutes to walk, I seemed to remember it being less, but time would tell. It all went wrong when I missed the left turn when we got to harbour entrance, heading instead straight ahead. We were then confronted by the castle rising up ahead of us, which way to go? You guessed it, straight over the top, it was only 70 metres of climbing, and still had some breath left as we descended the other side.
Time for lunch, we found a little Tapas bar close to the castle and were seated at a table inside. The tapas itself was excellent, a plate of patat bravas, pimentos in salt and anchovies in vinegar followed by andalusian pork stew. washed down with a couple of glasses of rose and a beer for me.
We then took a stroll around the centre, browsing for christmas presents and just generally being tourists before heading back to the ship. We walked back alongside the marina, lined with mega yachts & gin palaces. Jane found the other side more interesting as the way was lined with various stalls selling tourist tat. She did manage to buy a couple of stocking fillers for Xmas presents. The walk back was easier and flatter but it was a fair way, strava reckoned about 3.5km. All of it good for the waistline.
We’d decided to head up to the Sky bar for drinks because the weather was looking Ok, it’s a lovely area but it needs good weather. I had a Doombar and Jane had a Zara which she enjoyed, a lot.
The choice of Entrees at dinner are very limited, there’s only 4 options on the main menu. These are usually one meat choice, a fish choice, a veggie choice and a vegan/plant based choice. There used to be 5 Entrees pre-covid and I usually had a dilemma in what to choose for dinner, now I invariably venture on to the A La Carte menu as I don’t fancy anything offered. It was Tournedos Rossini, which we would usually have, but we fancied a lighter meal so had the Dover Sole, delicious, but we wished we’d asked for extra steamed vegetables as there was a dearth of them. After dinner, we headed up to the Pavilion for the screening of Queen’s 2014 Summer Sonic concert. Jane really enjoyed it even though there were sound issues at the beginning.