Yay! Going to Málaga!
Manolo called me last weekend and said it looked like he wasn’t going to be using his Málaga apartment this long weekend after all and so it would be okay for me to stay there instead of in the Marbella apartment. Now this makes a difference! First of all, it’s quite easy and cheap to get to Málaga by train (Marbella would have been two bus rides and I had no idea about the connections) and of course Málaga is where I really wanted to go. Sure I’d still like to go to the new Marks & Spencer in Marbella and get some mince pies, but I can do that Saturday afternoon and then spend the rest of the time in Málaga. The apartment is on that jutty outy bit in the middle of the port (on the map). I’m so excited!
I’ve been going back and forth about this all week because the weather forecast said it was going to RAIN all weekend, and more importantly, I was also feeling nervous about leaving Azar on his own for four days. Jessica is coming with us now so she obviously won’t be able to cat sit. But my next door neighbour Nieves says she is happy to come over every day and check up on Azar, and so I guess that will be okay. Azar isn’t really sociable anyhow and would probably just sleep if someone else was staying over here, but he’s been extra “needy” since Sunny died and it seems a bit soon to leave him alone. But opportunity is knocking and I know that a few days at the seaside will do me the world of good. I remember saying to Nog when we were leaving Málaga last summer that I hoped we’d be able to go back during the Christmas season and see the lights … and now we can! Everyone keeps telling me that Azar will be fine. I hope they’re right. Because the weather looks good, the apartment is suddenly free and Nieves is available to cat sit.
It should be an inexpensive get-away. I’ve put all three train tickets on my credit card and so the cash I got back for that from Nog and Jessica should pay for my meals out and any other expenses over the weekend. I’m really looking forward to being in Málaga again. Since my week there last August it really does feel like my “second home” in Spain. And so … we’re off this evening after Nog finishes his classes.
Must start packing!
Hope my iPhone still works as a dongle…
casa azahar 
Sighhhh…. Have a good time…. Sighhhhh….
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Woo hoo!
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You need the break. Enjoy it.
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Yee hah! Take lots of pictures of the lights, okay? And have fun. And don’t worry about Azar, he’ll be just fine. so glad you get to go to Malaga.
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Sounds wonderful! I’m so glad you can go. I look forward to more photos and updates.
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Thanks guys. I have that nervous yet excited feeling that I always get before a trip. Yeah I know it’s only for four days, but I’d be feeling the same even if it were just an overnighter.
Of course I’ll pack too many things, especially as we’re also bringing some groceries from home and a set of sheets (so we don’t leave Manolo with laundry drying), which will mean an extra suitcase. And I can’t forget the power cord for Shadow, or various other gadgets and their accoutrement. Plus the two books I’m reading at the moment and a couple of DVDs … phew! Oh, and some clothes.
I sure wish I could pack up Azar and take him with me. But I think he’ll be okay. I’ll ask Nieves to text me each day after she sees him so that I don’t worry TOO much. I know I sound like a total neurotic about leaving him, but oh well. Can’t seem to help it. Am going to leave the pj’s I wore last night folded up on my pillow so that he’ll still have my scent to snuggle up with. *sigh*
I really could use a “pre-scan” break … I’ve just got this awful feeling that they’re going to find more cancer in January. I guess because it will be the same timing as my last recurrence (6 months after finishing chemo), though of course that really doesn’t mean anything. But it’s that old “walking around with a time bomb inside you” feeling, you know? Anyhow, a few days by the sea in one of my favourite cities will really be good for me, I think.
I promise to take LOTS of photos and hope to be able to post stuff while I’m away (fingers crossed that my iPhone will still work as a portable modem). Though I have tomorrow’s Photohunter post already scheduled, as well as one for Sunday about a fabulous meeting I had last night with some people I met on a cool service info website … so stay tuned.
Hasta soon! 🙂
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Hey – have a great time
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Sounds like just the ticket. I hope you have a lovely time.
PS, the snow over the oranges cracks me up. It’s just so …. wrong. 🙂
xo
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Okay … gotta leave in about 45 minutes and I’m a total wreck. Peter is meeting me at the train station as he’s coming directly from a class, so I have to get the bags downstairs and find a taxi, but before that I HAVE TO SAY GOODBYE TO AZAR … that will be the hard part. I think I’d better plan to leave about 15 minutes earlier than planned.
And I think I’ll ask the two young strapping German guys next door to help me bring the bags down… it’s a long way down!
See ya.
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I’d be asking the “two young strapping German guys” to be helping me downstairs with or without the baggage…
PS Card arrived in record time!
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If it is any consolation, when I first got Benjamin, he was just a little kitten and I would put him in the bathroom with a hot water bottle on top of the kitchen clock (suggested for little kittens and puppies to mimic Mother’s heartbeat) in his bed. I worried from the moment I closed the front door until I came in again at the end of the day.
I even came home again at lunch time a few times to ensure I had closed the lid on the toilet, that he wasn’t hanging by one claw from the towel on the back of the door (which happened one night) and that I hadn’t forgotten to close the bathroom door.
It took me AGES to stop worrying about him whenever I left the house.
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