Benalmádena y Torremolinos

This week Jen and I decided we needed to get out of town. We're in Málaga and we're settled in so we decided it's time to explore. We planned on going to Benalmádena because we heard it was pretty. My roommates said the beach was chulisimo. While we were at breakfast we saw a sign for a festival del vino (wine festival) in Torremolinos! ¡Qué suerte! We went to Benalmádena first. From what I can tell it is a British tourist town. There were restaurants by the ocean advertising things like English breakfast and tea and there were lots of English speakers. But the roommates were right. The beach was awesome!

I love being able to see the mountains and the sea in the same city. Basically, anywhere along the Southern coast of Spain you can see mountains and ocean. The best of both worlds in my opinion.

Next we hopped back on the metro to go to Torremolinos. Stopped and had a beer to enjoy the sunshine and reward ourselves for all our hard work. We got directions from the waiter. He told us it was 20 minutes walking, so we went on our way. As we had been walking for 20 minutes, we were hungry so we stopped for lunch. We ordered langostinos a pil pil (prawns) and almejas (clams) with garlic and butter. We hadn't had langostinos and didn't really know what they were so we tried them. They were DELICIOUS. Tip of the day: anything a pil pil is a go.

Langostinos

We were happy girls.

After we got more serious about directions and had people laugh at us when we told them where we were goin by walking. It was possible. We walked down a highway with a guardrail to get to the Plaza de Congresos. There we met some friends and drank some wine. They were all good. I can't tell you names of them, because there were waaay too many. I can tell you I like vino tinto (red wine) and don't like sweet or white wines as much.

Here: Los Amantes del Vino

(The lovers of wine)

We had a good day, knocked out 2 towns, and tasted some of Spain's and Argentina's favorite wines. A good Saturday I say.