I came by bus from Malaga for a bit less that €5. Well, that was the plan. I got as far as Torrox due to a misunderstanding with the driver. Torrox is about 5 miles short of Nerja from Malaga and looked OK, but I don’t think there was that much there. I go a taxi after a bit of a wander and a drink watching the sea roll in.

It takes about 85 minutes from the main bus station in Malaga to the station at Nerja

I could see myself in Nerja. It has a lot of nice bars and restaurants including about half a dozen Indians, which I wasn’t expecting, even with this many expat Brits around (I’ve read on another blog, the excellent Mapping Spain, that expats are about 25% of the population here).

Nerja would have been on my list to visit here, but the main reason I did it this early instead of revisiting Seville or going to another inland city in Andalusia like Cordoba or Granada, was that I’d seen a rental in nearby Frigiliana which I needed to see. I’ve seen it and it’s where I’ll be living until the end of March when it goes back to being a holiday rental. More on Frigiliana later – probably much more.

One thing I’ve had in both Malaga and Nerja that I first discovered in Cadiz is fried local fish “in Adobo”. I had it yesterday in a restaurant on the beach looking at the sea. It is usually one of the cheapest things on the menu (I had it with chips for €8). White fish is cut into small chunks and marinaded in vinegar and/or lemon juice as you might for CEVCIHE and with paprika. This is then battered and deep-fried. Think of putting lemon or vinegar on your fish as chips, but it’s already in there. It’s fabulous and worth every one of those eight euros.

I won’t write too much more about Nerja, only to say that when I’m in Frigiliana this will be the nearest big town (about 5 miles) so it’ll likely become a centre for shopping etc. And visitors will, I assume, want to go to its beach.