Hello from Malaga

 I slept 3 hours last night !! I am a walking zombie but so far I am holding just fine. I had to get up at 4 AM in order to take the 7 am train to Malaga. I did not know how long the walk from my friends house to the train station would take. I added one more star to Grenada today, the safety star, I already said that before  but now I add the star because even when no one is out there, I felt perfectly safe.. it was pitch dark in the narrow alleys but i never felt threatened. I will be buried alive in Quito or Algiers if I did the same!!! Trains in Spain are great!!! On time and comfortable and reasonably priced so all in all thumb’s up !! How about Malaga ?? I love it !! I guess I just love the whole country of Spain with its wonderful people and beautiful cities… Malaga is not Grenada, it does not have Alhambra to brag about but is has the Picasso museum and more.. like the Mediterranean sea, the beaches … I walked until my feet said stop  then I listened to my feet and took a taxi to the hotel… however there was a small problem before that… my phone died and I did not know where to go because all the info was in the phone and the phone died!! Ok don’t panic I said, I just went into an Italian restaurant found an outlet next to a table and that was it… I asked the restaurant’s owner whether I could charge my phone he said off course and I said off course to lunch back .. so both of us won !! They were all sweet ….  So to all you people relying on phones for all your information, wake up !! The phone can die, be stolen, or dropped and broken into million pieces then reality strikes and you have nothing … the old fashion way never dies: print your info and secure it in your bags. Ok enough of this lecturing, I am on vacation and so are my students … so here are some pics from Malaga…  Enjoy

Taken from the train: Olive trees everywhere 

Wind turbines on top of lots of hills

A church in Malaga with lots of school kids going in 

Beautiful windows and architecture 

What a ceiling!! 

More awesome buildings anywhere you look

One more …

I am the “L” in Malaga: who am I??

Exercising in the beautiful park.. 

Picasso 1

More beautiful buildings

Picasso 2

A funny story from today: Because of sleeping only 2 hours last night, as soon as I got my room today, 3 pm local time, I decided to lay down on the bed in the hotel room and before long I was in la-la land.. After two hours I woke up and I was hysterical thinking that I missed my flight because the sun was out and everything was bright … I did not know it was still the same day.. After looking at my phone, i saw the date was still 29th not 30th  then i cooled off …  this is the outcome of lack of sleep. Take away… get enough sleep no matter what !!