{"id":3130,"date":"2020-03-14T13:31:10","date_gmt":"2020-03-14T18:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/?p=3130"},"modified":"2025-01-15T13:31:17","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T19:31:17","slug":"spain-is-shut-down-malaga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/2020\/03\/14\/spain-is-shut-down-malaga\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain is shut down: Malaga"},"content":{"rendered":"
We tried to make lemonade from lemons while awaiting flight home Sunday. Spain was shut down, but our travel agent had been alerted. She could not get us a flight the next day, so we had an extra day in Malaga–and a guide willing to show us around an empty city.<\/div>\n
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After all, we were in Malaga, a city with Roman\u00a0 ruins, a vibrant seaport, and a huge cathedral built on the ruins of a mosque. The Catholic monarchs, Ferdinand and Isabella, captured the city in the 1480s, just before Grenada’s fall completed the \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a>Reconquista. We also visited a small town nearby,\u00a0 (note the burro taxi) where our guide got us into a museum featuring Picasso ceramics. Picasso was born here.<\/div>\n
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The city was eerie.\u00a0 The guide said only foreigners were on\u00a0 the streets.<\/div>\n
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Our flight was the next day,\u00a0 full of Americans fleeing the unknown into the unknown.\u00a0 O’Hare was a madhouse, although better the second day than the first, as the President was closing the borders.\u00a0 There was no priority given to wheelchairs, so Carolyn and I stood in line with everyone else.\u00a0 Wondering…who had it?\u00a0 Who were they going to give it to?\u00a0 Like everyone else, we thought it might last a few weeks.\u00a0 The plunge lasted almost four years, and it’s not over. But it was our last international trip.<\/div>\n
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We tried to make lemonade from lemons while awaiting flight home Sunday. Spain was shut down, but our travel agent had been alerted. She could not get us a flight the next day, so we had an extra day in Malaga–and a guide willing to show us around an empty city. After all, we were … Continue reading “Spain is shut down: Malaga”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spain-2020-before-the-virus-hit"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3130"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7719,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3130\/revisions\/7719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}