"Nothing is true; everything is permitted"
Our last leg of the Italian Spanish trip was an afternoon in Madrid. The transfer options were better to ride the train from Malaga and take Vueling flight from Madrid than a direct Norwegian flight from Malaga. What can I say. The Norwegians are expensive.
Malagas cuisine is a delightful combination of fresh Mediterranean flavors including seafood like fried fish, grilled sardine skewers (espetos) and boquerones en vinagre or anchovies marinated in vinegar.
Malaga is not a not just sweet wine and raisins flavored ice cream that I just adore, it’s a second largest city in Spanish province of Andalusia and it was our next to last leg of the Italian – Spanish holidays in 2023.
The gastronomic offer of Cordoba is no different that classical Spanish food offer in other cities that we visited. There is abundance of small tapas bars where lunch or dinner is served and there are quite a number of upscale restaurants offering a different intake on the traditional Southern Spanish ingredients.
We have tasted all!
After almost a full week in Sevilla, our next destination was Cordoba.
We arrived early in the day, with no pressure at all. Cordoba is just an hour train ride with from Sevilla so having in mind our early check in to the apartment we had plenty of time to arrive to the train station, walk around a park in Cordoba, have a snack, walk the streets for the M nap and even get some groceries along the way.
If you ever traveled to Spain, it was hard to miss all present tapas portions of food. Sometimes served as a full dish portion, but mostly smaller portions of many and various tapas dishes have marked Spanish cuisine. It was no different with Andalusian cuisine that we enjoyed during the visit to the cities of Sevilla, Cordoba and Malaga.
When Ryanair changed our departure flight from Torino to Sevilla it was a bit of disappointment that quickly turned in dealignment. We will have another day in Sevilla and we could use that day for visiting the surroundings.
Years back, when Debeli and I visited Madrid, I remember someone saying, must have been a friend of a friend, that we should visit Andalusia. He swore there was no better place in Spain when it came to architecture, art or food.
Years passed and that idea was just stuck in the back of my head, until finally, last year I managed to add this Spanish jewel into our trip itinerary.
Our three weeks Italian Spanish adventure in late November 2022 ended in Alicante.
Valencia pleasantly surprised us on so many levels, and food was one of those!