Being a tourist vs. Being ill

Since I last blogged I guess I have done a few things, but it hasn’t been as crazy as normal. First of all, was a lovely day trip to Ronda with some of the girls. All I can say is that it really is a beautiful place, the views everywhere are sensational and it is such a cute little city to wander around all day. The pictures pretty much sum up what we did there, we wandered, took photos and went in so many cute little gift shops. Oh, and we went on our first wine tasting experience. If you don’t include all the wine tasting I do at work :)

Whilst in Ronda, we missed the Málaga floods, which made the river start flowing again (exciting!). It was such a great day until I started to feel really ill after being in the cold/rain and wind for so long. So after getting home, I got all cosy in my pyjamas and fluffy socks and spent my first Saturday night in Málaga in bed! And bed is where I stayed pretty much until Wednesday afternoon!

I may have had a few outings, but I stayed relatively warmly dressed for them all! In 48 hours all I managed to eat was a salad and some carrot soup. I might have made a little appearance at ladies night on Monday evening, but who could say no to strippers and a free bar. Turns out the free bar was beer, so didn’t take long for the chunder dragon to appear, and the carrot soup to quickly follow… That certainly was not a late night for me!

Anyway, spent the rest of my week monging in bed and not going to class. Really ratchet I know, but I just had no energy at all to move, let alone imagine getting on that cramped uni bus. When I finally made it to uni on Wednesday afternoon, I was greeted by hot and cold sweats and felt stupid for even bothering to get out of bed at all. Thankfully, my super sexy lecturer ended the class one hour early anyway!

Wednesday night was come dine with me night, series two – episode one! Come dine with Sammie. She made some lovely homemade onion bhajees followed by a chicken balti and homemade naan bread. Accompanied by yoghurt too, gooood job!

Thursday brought the arrival of my Mumma and sister to Málaga, happy days! Although I do have to say that waiting in the airport arrivals area really was like being from that scene in Love Actually, I am far too soppy to be allowed in a place like that. Anyway, there were only a few tears on arrival!

We filled their three days here with a LOT of sightseeing of Málaga, a lot of walking, a lot of stopping for drinks and having some really nice dinners. I ate calves cheek on the first night, and considering I’d never had it before I was pretty impressed. We even had nice enough weather on the Thursday to have a little siesta on the beach, I was so happy the sun came out after the recent rain. Someone was definitely looking down on us and making sure we had good weather, thank you! What’s funny is that Victoria, my wonderful, older sister who has completed 4 years at uni AND a year abroad, was unfortunately too hungover on Friday to come and see the city with us. Of course, she blames me for this, however I just don’t think she deals with hangovers well! Either way, 2 litres of vodka between 3 people and then drinking a whole bottle of stolen gin is basically asking for trouble! Safe to say neither of us remembers the whole night. But what a good night it was, I was clearly rebelling against Sala Wenge for some reason! I even managed to get up (with Mum’s help) earlyish for a day in the city on Friday, and Victoria was much more alive to enjoy our long touristy day on Saturday.

It was so nice to have family visit me here and finally see the place where I am living! I loved having them here and it’s just a shame it went so quickly. Next up, I need to get the other blister to come out so I can show her Taco and a beer for a euro Tuesday…

Last week, we also decided that we finally had to book to go somewhere this weekend coming up. We couldn’t choose between Barcelona and Madrid, and we are running out of weekends so we decided to do both! So we are all sooo excited to be going on a 5 day weekend to both of the cities this weekend, 165 euros for all transport and accommodation is pretty good I think. Pat on the back for me for finding it all!

And one last thing, I am getting much more confident in speaking Spanish!! I spoke an awful lot when my Mum and sister were here as I had no choice, but just in general I feel like it is improving a lot! Little mini success for me, now I just need to keep it going and make more Spanish friends.

Going to bed now as I have a week of classes to actually attend this week! So I may upload some pictures in the next few days…I will also blog again after my weekend – which will no doubt be pretty amazing! 

As the Andalucians say… Haattaaaa luegoo x