Highlights-Málaga Day 2
I attended Mass at the Málaga Cathedral (more formally, Santa Iglesia Catedral Basílica de la Encarnación). Spiritually recharged, I followed this with the Picasso museum. Inside, there was a Picasso quote, "We all know that art is not truth.” This coming from the co-inventor of Cubism, who portrayed people with body parts sticking out at impossible angles. He made the lying obvious.
Fashion Statement
They’ve probably seen it all
Only in Spain
Pickle-stuffed olives! So cool.
Notable Items
No nuns were in attendance at Mass. My backup “watch the pros” strategy was look to at the older people. Not the t-shirts-and-cargo-shorts older people (obvious non-Catholic tourists). There were large screens displaying video centered on the priests. I didn’t look at them during the service because there was no slow motion replay.
The standard museum ticket approach in Spain is: visit website, select ticket age group (I get the old-dude discount), pay, receive ticket via email (link or attachment). Something broke when I purchased a ticket for the Picasso museum. Maybe the email was delayed? The credit card charge certainly wasn’t.
Outside the museum entrance, there were two lines: those with tickets and those who have “issues” with websites (the line of shame). Even though the not-received tickets were for timed entry, there was just one “those with tickets” line. It was a long line (I thought about hiring an Uber to get to the end of it).
I reached the head of the line and still didn’t see the ticket email. How was I going to explain my problem in Spanish? I come to Spain every year to practice my Spanish because no course or Spanish phrasebook teaches you, “I paid for them, but didn’t get the darn tickets in email” (malditas entradas isn’t polite anyway). I gave my story, in Spanish, to the security agent. She gave me one of those, Sure, buddy looks and passed me to the museum rep. Since I had saved a screenshot of the reservation number, he was able to find my ticket quickly. Always take a screenshot.
I called the apartment management company to complain that the bedroom a/c unit fan was cycling on and off too frequently, making it unusable at night. That bought me 20 minutes of troubleshooting via text message.