I can’t believe I’ll be in Málaga this time in just ten days!
Between work assignments yesterday, I worked at sorting out the following:
-How I’m getting to Málaga. By bus. The 5.5-hour bus ride was almost 16 euros (23CAD) less than the 3-hour ride, so I’m taking the scenic route there!
-Accommodation in Málaga. Like in Barcelona, I’m renting a room in an apartment and basically doing a flat share thing.
-How I’m getting to the airport in Málaga. Turns out there’s a bus I can take near my flat that is super cheap.
-Accommodation in Heben Bridge on the 8th. Renting an Airbnb room. The lady is really nice and said that she’ll come and get me at the train station!
-Accommodation in Manchester from Jan 5th through to the 8th. Still a work in progress. Mancs were extraordinarily rude to me on a travel forum and put me off from spending two days there, so I may reconsider visiting that city.
Also sorted is that I have a sit lined up in Lancashire after Hebden Bridge through to March 1st! It starts a couple of days after the Hebden Bridge one, but the couple has offered to pick me up on the day my Hebden Bridge sit is done and take me to their place a few days early so I can settle in! So that means that all but three nights of accommodation between now and March 1st are covered. That’s a huge weight off my shoulders! The only transportation costs that aren’t covered yet shouldn’t be huge either.
I’m trying to savour my last few days here. I went out for tapas last night and made a mental note to try a hamburger next time I go there if I’m particularly hungry. I was very hungry last night and had the tuna after the chorizo, plus the two (small) beers! Still, for 6CAD, that was a very affordable and good meal!
This afternoon, I went to the little shop up the street for sundries and marvelled that it was almost hot out. If it hadn’t been for the wind, I could have been in a tee shirt. So I got quite a chuckle out of the storeowner’s dog wearing a sweater and teased her about it. I was delighted that she’s started to stock my preferred brand of sweetened almond milk (giving up on ever again finding here the unsweetened kind) and that it was really inexpensive! I thought I was going to have to make a special trip to one of the larger grocery stores to get a container so I could finish off my cereal.
I really took advantage here of having a kitchen with a full size fridge/freezer and grocery stores that were easy to get to do some serious cooking. My kitchen in Bulgaria wasn’t bad (and actually better equipped), but the fridge was too small to store leftovers and I didn’t have easy access to varied groceries, so I ate a lot of salads and sandwiches. Not a terrible bad diet, but it was way too much bread and salami. I’m feeling a lot healthier here than I did there, despite not getting as much exercise. Being able to sleep well here has played a huge role in that as well.
Of course, I’ll miss this cat terribly and have been joking about sneaking her into my suitcase. The only other cat I’ve ever connected to on such a deep level was my Tabitha. Every place I’ve booked and all my sits will have a cat or two, thankfully!
It’s been a very good time in Spain. I’m glad that I have one more stop to make here before jetting off to Amsterdam!
Looking forward to your British experience. A totally different culture than what you are in now…
In addition to my four days in London, I spent four weeks in Scotland in ’98. I watch mostly British programming and have friends from all over the UK. So it won’t be THAT new and different to me. 🙂
You are making me miss having cats. We can have them here but they have to be interviewed before they can move in so I doubt getting a couple of kittens would be allowed.
It’s going to be really hard not to get a cat when I settle in Mérida!
Why not look for an older cat whose personality is already set? Might be easier to pass the interview. That’s what I did with my Neelix, who was seven when I brought him home.
Wow! Still moving around, I can hardly keep track of where you’re going & where you’ve been. But it sounds like, as always, you have it well under control.
Bus rides sounds good at first but then they seem to always have a hiccup. I hope this one goes smoothly for you.
Your digs or sits sound wonderful with a cat or two too. That means you won’t be stealing your current cat 😉
Good food, good sleeps, safe travels & most of all have a great time!
Hugs!
This is much less moving around than when I was in the Balkans! 😀 But, yes, I do need a calendar to keep track of it all.
“But it sounds like, as always, you have it well under control.”
I’m absurdly organized. 😉
“Bus rides sounds good at first but then they seem to always have a hiccup. I hope this one goes smoothly for you.”
I just hope it has a bathroom. 😀
“That means you won’t be stealing your current cat”
Anything is possible…
Thanks for the good wishes and hugs back!
I know… I hate how organized your are :0
Maybe at some point when work is slow we could get a map of where you’ve been since leaving Haven (is that where you left from?? It’s seems so long ago).
No Don’t Steal The Cat!! 😀
” know… I hate how organized your are :0″
It took a lot of hard work to get to this point! I I’ve only been like this for a few years.
“Maybe at some point when work is slow we could get a map of where you’ve been since leaving Haven (is that where you left from?? It’s seems so long ago).”
I’ve actually got a post in the works laying out all the travel I did in 2016, starting in Maz, but I don’t know how to make a map of all that since Google refuses to route me between Saskatchewan and Europe. Working on it. 🙂
“No Don’t Steal The Cat!! ”
:p