Malaga in November - Day 2 - Catedral y Pederalejo

It's Wednesday and it's our first full day in Málaga since our stay in March 2018. Access to the cathedral is free from 9 until 10 a.m. so that's where we go first. There are quite a lot of other people wandering around too while Mass is taking place in the choir area, protected from what is happening outside by the carved seats and backs. 

The cathedral is nice, but nothing really special which is memorable.

After, we go to Mercado Atarazanas which we had been so fond of during a previous visit. Here, only just subtly, but something has changed since our last stay. First of all there are loads of tourists about, we later see two cruise ships parked in the port 

so that could be why, and perhaps for this reason the stallholders seem a little less friendly, or is it my imagination. Anyway we buy soles at the same stall as last year and that stallholder is friendly, then a lot of fruit - mangoes, avocados, chirimoyas, some tasty olives at the same stall as last time. We are satisfied with the morning's purchases and go back 'home' to cook.

After a quite early and leisurely lunch we walk through the centre, including Calle Larios, and then Alameda gardens heading for Malagueta. It's a quite blustery but sunny day and we walk briskly all along the sea front with blue sea with small waves on the right and the rather busy road on the left. We stop at one of the fitness areas which has been updated with some quite sophisticated equipment which is being used by some guys who know what they are doing. The brisk part of the walk stops when we turn off the road onto the Pederalejo sea front where it seems still to be summer. Sheltered from the wind by the low fishermen's cottages with the sun opposite it's beautifully warm, many of the restaurants are open, there are espetos de sardinas on the barbeques in the boats, not like November at all. 

We sit a while on a blue wrought iron bench in the sun before walking back to Malagueta. At Muelle Uno it's equally pleasant, there are lots of people around there too, a lot more than I remembered last March.

Our last stop of the day is at Antigua Casa de la Guardia where we decide on a Pedro Jimenez each, for a total of 2.40€. A little tipsy, well, me, not Andrea, we stop to get some dried figs and a small packet of San Paco crisps of which only half make it back to the apartment to accompany some Vermouth. It's so nice to be back in Málaga...