Different things to do in Malaga

There are a lot of different activities you can do in Malaga. From cultural visits to having a nice evening out. In this article we have listed five things to do in Malaga, which you can do with your friends or family.

1. Puerto de Málaga

If you are fond of a port, you definitely need to go to this one! You can find the port at the Costa Del Sol. Walk from the city center to the beach via this beautiful port. At the port you can see a lot of different kind of boats while eating some delicious fresh fish. We definitely recommend to go there when the sun is almost going down. You will get a taste of the nice atmosphere of Malaga during the sunset.

2.  Dinner and drinks

Do you love food? You are in the right city! Especially for different kind of fish. There are many operators in the city who are organizing a food tour. You can do this tour private, so with your own friends or family, or you can do it with a group. This way you can meet all kind of new people! Just search food tour Malaga on the internet and you will find many sites. Are you looking for drinks rather than food? Malaga offers also pub crawls! For little money you can go to (usually) five different pubs and drink some beers or sangria. It’s a great way to meet new people.

3. Museums

There are a lot of museums you can visit in Malaga. On this page we named three of them which are worth a visit:

1. Picasso museum: Where else would be stored the marvelous collection of Pablo Ruiz Picasso’s work than in his place of birth. This museum is definitely worth visiting.
2. Automobile and fashion: Cars and fashion, this museum is for everybody. You will find amazing old timers and classic, historical fashion items. Want to see the car that has been used in the first James Bond movie? Visit the museum.
3. Museo del Vidrio: This museum shows a lot of different pieces which spans several thousand years. You can find antique glassware, furniture and other tasteful decoration.

4. La concepión botanic garden

This garden of Malaga is spread out over 25,000 square meters. The garden is located on half an hour from the city center of Malaga by bus. This garden offers a lot of different plants which gives a tropical atmosphere. You can take a lot of beautiful pictures here and enjoy the nice weather in the south of Spain.

5. Ataranzas market

The Ataranzas market is the biggest market of Malaga. the market is divided into three halls. One with meat, one with fish and one with vegetables. You can buy the best food for a small price in this historical building. All the things you need for a delicious meal, you can find here!

Are you looking for even more things to do? Go sightseeing in Malaga!

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What is the best tattoo shop Valencia?

While walking through Valencia you might have noticed that a lot of Spanish people have a tattoo. Nowadays getting a tattoo is seen as an important decoration of your body. You can see it as a clothing item. If you are thinking about having a tatto, you are in the right city to go for it! But what is the best tattoo shop Valencia? We have made a list of the top shops in the city. The artists are professional, friendly and will help you with the perfect design! You can find different kind of tattoo shops in Valencia:

WOW TATTOO

This tattoo shop is located in Russafa in the street: Carrer del Pintor Salvador Abril, 13. The tattoo shop isn’t very big, so maybe hard to find but if you are there the owner will welcome you with open arms. He is a great artist and will help you with everything. The starting price in this shop is €50-, You can make an appointment by phone or stopping by at his shop.

UTOPIAN TATTOO TRIBE

This shop is quite big and offers around the 50 professional tattoo artists! Utopian tattoo is located at Avinguda Regne de Valencia, 8. If you have decided to have your tattoo placed here you only need to walk to the shop, because they can ink you the same day!  When of the reasons it is placed in the list of best tattoo shop Valencia. The starting price here is around the €70,-  Check their website for more information.

NO LAND TATTOO PARLOUR

They don’t only know how decorate their shop but they know even better how to decorate the bodies of their customers! They can make blackwork, cartoons, neotraditional and traditional, anything you want. The artists are not only famous in Valencia but also in Europe they have made a name for themselves! You can find the shop at Carrer de Lepant, 13. The starting price is around the €70,- and you can make an appointment on their website or in the shop. Take a look at their art!

ONE WAY TATTOO

It doesn’t matter what kind of art you want on your skin, these artists can definitely create it. This modern tattoo shop is located at Carrer de l’Escultor José Capuz, 38. You can stop by with your design whenever you want. Also here, prices will start around €70-. To see what they have to offer click on this link to their website!

The winner of the best tattoo shop Valencia

All shops are candidate to be called the best tattoo shop Valencia! We leave it up to you to make the final decisions. After all it is your body and you should be the one to make such a decision. Do you prefer a piercing more than a tattoo? Don’t worry! Utopian Tattoo Tribe and One Way Tattoo are both also very good at piercing. To take care of the healing process of the tattoo or piercing you will get instructions in each shop.

Discover more in Valencia on our blog!

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Discover nightlife in Seville

The best clubs and pubs are spread throughout the whole city of Seville. As you may already know, Seville is after Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia the biggest city of Spain and the capital of Andalusia. Seville is an important city because of their art and you can see this as well when you discover the nightlife in Seville. Seville offers many different styles of music in different kind of clubs and bars, find them below!

Bar

When you just want to hang out with a couple of friends with a nice background music you can go to: Naima Café Jazz. If you are a huge fan of Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus or John Coltrane you should definitely go to this jazz bar. The entrance is for free and there are a lot of live performance.

Do you like a mojito or a sex on the beach? Then there is a really cool place for you in Seville named the Second Room. This bar offers the best atmosphere and the best cocktails for a good price as well! You can find the bar in the street: Calle de Placentines, 19. Near the city center of Seville.

Did you leave your student life behind? You still can have a perfect night out. There is a bar called: Bestiario, where most people of 25+ go. You can find the bar at Zaragoza 33 in the heart of the center. Just sit down in a nice dress/suit (yep, they have a dress code) and enjoy a nice beer with different styles of music.

Clubs

A famous club in Seville: Antique theater. This club is hip with a luxury decoration. The club is located in Matématicos Rey Pastor y Castro s/n Isla la Cartuja. Unfortunately, you have to pay entrance, this will be around 15-20 euros, one drink included. The music in Antique theater differs a lot from top 40 to Latin or house.

Obbio club: the perfect club for a perfect evening. The club is located in the street Calle Trastámara, 29. This club has a special atmosphere and offers disco music. So let’s get funcky on the dance floor!

Discotheek Groucho:  In this club you can dance on house and techno music.  Entrance is free! But, before you enter the club. beware on your outfit because they are quite strict on it! You can find this club in the street: Federico Sánchez Bedoya 20.

And last but not least we have Moderniste. A latin club which you can enter for free! This club is located in the center of the city in the street: Dos de Mayo 28.

Are you already looking forward to visit all these bars/clubs with your friends? We wish you a lot of fun!

Read more articles on our blog to get to know the best things to do in Seville.

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Tinto de Verano vs Sangria: who will win?

Well, this isn’t really a contest but if you we look at the drink the Spaniards mainly order: Tinto de Verano wins from Sangria! But most touristic people choose Sangria over Tinto de Verano, so it’s a draw! Below you can see the ingredients of Tinto de Verano vs Sangria, you choose which team wins!

Vargas or Tinto de Verano?

Just as with Agua de Valencia, there exists a theory about this Spanish drink. The drink is invented in the years of 1920 by the Vargas Sales located next to a sandy road to  El Brilliante. The owner of this place was Don Federico Vargas who sold a lot of his wine (Valdepeñas) to his customers until their body had enough of it and didn’t want to have it anymore. Don Federico Vargas invented to add soda to the drink to make the drink softer. The people loved it and called it Un Vargas, soon after people started calling it Tinto de Verano. There also exists a theory for the name Varga. The followers of this theory argue that the name Varga comes from the combination of words of the ingredients Vagar used: Valdepeñas and gaseosa.

Tinto de Verano is quite easy to make. The drink normally consists of two elements namely: red wine and gaseosa (which is the general name for carbonated drinks or sodas). The mixer people mostly prefer is a mild and low sugar carbonated drink but you can choose any soda you prefer. For instance: bitter lemon with carbonated water. Some people also loves to put a slice of water melon in the Tinto de Verano to make it sweeter but the standard garnish is a slice of lemon.

Sangria who invented it?

Sangria also has its owns history and this one is a bit rare because with Agua the Valencia and Vargas we knew who was the genius behind the drinks but for Sangria there are two parties who claim that they invented Sangria. The Spaniards are drinking Sangria for centuries and it is seen as the Spanish drink. However, the British claim that they have made the world acquainted with this drink by introducing it in New York even before the 18th century.

Sangria has the base of red or white wine and is flavored with different kind of fruits. Mostly: orange, peach, lemon, pineapple or apple. But you can also add other fruits! Add the end they add honey, sugar and orange juice. You have all different kind of Sangria but the most popular Sangria is still the basic one.

You can separate Tinto de Verano vs Sangria by the fruits. A lot of different fruits are used to make Sangria, Tinto de Verano usually comes without fruit.

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Discover more of Spain on a road trip through Andalusia

To rent a car isn’t really expensive in December. The best amount of people to rent a car with is five or ten. Renting a car for a week in December for five persons will cost you around 50 euros. So, 10 euro per person! In the summer this will be way more expensive than in the winter.  Don’t worry about the cold because we could even walk around in shorts in December! You will see the amazing weather on the sunny pictures of our road trip through Andalusia.

Day 1: After picking up our cars from the airport in Valencia (you can choose the location for yourself), we drove to Alicante (1,5 hour). We booked a house at 5 to 10 minutes from the city center. Our house had a beautiful view over the mountains and the landscape.

Day 2: After waking up we drove to Elche. Where we visited the Palm Groves (Palmeral) of Elche. The Palm Groves covers over 3.5km2 including 1.5km2 inside the city of Elche. This park is very rare because it counts around 97 different sorts palmtree families over 200.000 palms. This makes the Palm Groves one of the biggest palm gardens of the whole world! After seeing this we went to into the city center of Elche to visit buildings and eat a delicious ice cream. When we were finished we drove to our next house (3,5 hours) where we would sleep the rest of our trip in Almuñécar. We arrived around 9 pm, and gosh, what a house it was. A home cinema, a pool and even a jacuzzi! We found the house easily on Airbnb and it wasn’t that expensive because we were with 10 people. The road trip through Andalusia was for us already a succes with such a nice house.

Day 3: We had to wake up early because we were going to Granada and the Alhambra (1,5 hour). There is a great history behind the Alhambra. The Alhambra is a palace which was built by the Nasrid (the last Moorish Muslim dynasty in Iberia) and Mohammed ben Al-Ahmar which was the first ruler of the emirate of Granada. The palace is a reflection of the Moorish culture, it has a big garden and beautiful inscriptions and vaultings. If you are close to Granada, you should definitely visit it! After the visit to Alhambra we went to the city of Granada. This city isn’t really lively in comparison with the other cities of Spain, but Granada has a beautiful historical look with many old buildings and squares to visit. After a long day of walking nothing is better than to chill in the jacuzzi with a glass of red wine.

Day 4: At day 4 we went to the beautiful Ronda (2 hours). Ronda lays in the province of Malaga an it’s a mountainous area. The city of Ronda has a great atmosphere, the streets are small, the squares are big and outside of Ronda you can see he Puente Nuevo bridge which spans the 120 meter and is with the largest bridge at carries the Guadalevín river. It’s kind of sad we didn’t go to Malaga, but you will overrate how long everything is driving. Especially after a long day of walking you just want to sit in the jacuzzi again.

Day 5: After 4 days of exploring the beauty of Andalusia it was already time to heading home, what would take 5 hours. However, you will not be bored during your return trip, because you drive through the mountains with beautiful fields. On the way back we drove past the Tarbenas desert and made a stop in Murcia.

Do you want to discover Spain as well? Find a language course on Suspanish and make a road trip with your new friends!

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Make Agua de Valencia easy and quick

Most cocktails are quite hard to make because of the endless ingredients and the cutting work. With Agua de Valencia this is not the case! This cocktails only consist of 4 ingredients and no cutting work (maybe a slice of orange for decoration). Agua de Valencia consist of the follow ingredients:

• Fresh orange juice
• Cava
• Gin
• Vodka

To make the cocktail so delicious as possible, it is best to use fresh orange juice. It could also be nice to add sugar to the Agua de Valencia, but this is not necessarily important. If you are on a leash or not really a fan of sugar, you can leave it out!

Serving a Agua de Valencia

First of all, it is important that you have 500 ml of fresh orange juice. Do you still need to squeeze them? Do that first! If you bought it from the shop, you can put 500 ml in a measuring cup and pour it into a large can. Then as follows add 300 ml of cava. Then you need to add 100 ml gin plus 100 ml vodka. As you read, there are quite a few layers of alcohol in this drink but you don’t really taste that because of the orange juice. So watch out because this can be very treacherous!

Below is a schematic representation of a can Agua de Valencia:

If you want to add a bit of sugar to the Agua de Valencia, do this first! Even before the fresh juice. If not, the cava could froth.

Are you planning to go to Valencia or are you going to Valencia soon? Then we recommend you to go to a terrace in Valencia to go and drink Agua de Valencia on the terrace. With the sun in your face and the typical Spanish drink you can enjoy your holiday to the fullest!

You can also read about typical Spanish dishes

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Discover Modern art museums in Spain

There are a lot of modern art museums in Spain, especially in the big cities. We will highlight the modern art museums in the four biggest cities of Spain: Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia and Sevilla. If you love modern art, you definitely need to visit these museums!

MEAM in Barcelona

MEAM stands for Museu Europe d’Art Museum. This museum is located in Barcelona in the street: Barra de Ferro 5. This museum offers exhibitions, concerts, theater and workshops. This museum offers great arts and artist a stage to exhibit their work. a ticket to visit the museum is 9 euro. For children under 10 years old the ticket is free of charge.

You can find tickets and further information about the events and exhibitions on the website of MEAM.

IVAM in Valencia

The Institute Valencia d’Art Modern offers an artistic heritage with works of different cultural contexts. Not only valencian artists but people all over the world show their vision of modern art in this museum. Adults can enter this museum for 6 euros. For students it is only 3 euros! Friday 19:00-21:00, Saturday 15:00-19:00 and Sunday the whole day are for free!

Read more about their current exhibitions.

Reina Sofia in Madrid

A big museum that represents the new cultural generation. The museum shows you paintings, movies and sculptures of representing nowadays world in a modern way. You can find the work of famous artist as well as upcoming artists. They also offers a lot of workshops where you can learn anything about modern art and make modern art yourself! The museum is located at: Calle de Santa Isabel, 52, 28012 Madrid.

You can visit the museum on Monday, Wednesday- Saturday from 10:00- 21:00. Sunday and holidays they have special opening times which you can find here.

CAAC in Seville

Centro Adaluz de Arte Contemperano; This center is created in 1990 to give the local community an institution for the research, conservation and promotion of contemporary art. They exhibit a wide range of modern art. Also, CAAC in Seville have a beautiful library of modern art. The center also organizes a lot of events and activities for instance: an electronic lunch, jazz concerts, rainbow etc. To find out more about this extraordinary center and the exhibitions check their website. You can find the center at: Avda. Américo Vespucio, 2 / Camino de los Descubrimientos, s/n 41092 Seville Spain. The museum opens its doors on: Tuesday-Saturday from 11:00 -21:00 and on Sunday form 10:00 till 15:30.

Interested in the other museums and cultural hotspots in Spain? Read the articles on our blog!

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Making the best memories on New Year’s Eve in Valencia!

In the evening (before 24:00) you could give a big house party but what most people do is just having dinner in a luxe restaurant. With New Year’s in Valencia you don’t have to worry about your money because you can already get a whole menu for 30 euros! You can share a nice meal with your friends and family and talk about the good and bad moments of 2018. But don’t forget the time while chatting because at twelve it is happening!

With ‘at twelve it is happening’ we don’t mean straight away it is 2019 and look at the fireworks! No, don’t forget to eat the grapes! This isn’t a joke, it’s a tradition. It all began when the village of Viñalopó in the province of Alicante had an exceptionally good grape harvest and decided to distribute the grapes at New Year’s Eve what would give luck for the new year. Since 1909 people are standing on the big square in Valencia and eat a grape at 12 o’clock on each chime, so 12 in total!

Okay let’s go back to the evening: When you finished your last grape, congratulate your family and friends for the new year and the parties are going to begin!

You could go to several bars if you don’t really like to party. Most bars which are opened with New Year’s Eve you can find in Del Carmen or Ruzafa! If you like to party and want to welcome the new year by day. You can go to several clubs. Below you can see all the clubs which are giving a party at 31st of December. Take a look with your friends/family and choose the right party!

Spaniards loves R&B and hip-hop. There are three clubs you can visit on December the 31st:

• Mya-nochevieja party (means New Year’s Eve in Spanish)
• Committee Valencia with the theme: The Great Gatsby
• Cream Valencia – nochevieja party

For the techno and house fans, it could be hard to choose one of the party because you have a wide range!

• Mya-nochevieja party
• ROTO- nochevieja party at Latex
• The basement- NYE en La Casa
• Spook- NYE techno festival
• Next club- New years eve
• Jardines de Tabarca- Garden New York
• Oven club centro- Rear view/ New year 2019

If you want to dance the whole evening on hits you can choose between:

• Plaza de Toros de Valencia- Coliseo Winter Music
• Sala Repvblicca- La Villa
• Akuarela playa- NYE winter festival
• Indiana- New Years Eve 2019
• 3 hundred- The Most Exclusive New Year’s Eve in Town
• SPECIAL: A YACHT PARTY at Marina Real Juan Carlos I

Do you love the Spanish Latin music? Then you can go to:

• Discoteca shine: reggaton
• Le premiere
• Maybe

If you love Indi Rockyou can go to:

• Jerusalem club- La Ùltima noche
• La3- La3 New Years Eve

For the real die-hards who doesn’t want to stop partying you can go on the next day, the 1^stof January at:

• MOKAI NEW YEAR 2019 (secret location)
• High cube- Morning Day One
• Marina beach club- Fayer Matinal
• Allegretto-2019 (secret location)

You can buy the tickets for the parties on Xceed 

It’s sounds like one big party doesn’t it? We will hope you will have a wonderful night and of course a happy 2019!

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Discover deserts in Spain

There are two well-known deserts in Spain that are worth visiting, there are also landscapes to be found in Spain that certainly resemble a desert. In this article we will talk about the next deserts:

• Bardenas Reales in Navarra
• Tabernas woestijn in Andalusië
• Imanfaya Nationaal Park – (Lanzarote)

Bardenas Reales in Navarra

In the southeast of Navarre lies the Bardenas Reales, the largest desert in Europe. This natural park has been declared a Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO. A semi-desert landscape of about 42,000 hectares is very impressive. This steppe has to do with drought and consists mainly of rocks and stone. If you go to the Bardenas Reales in Navarre you really think you are in a different world!

Tabernas desert in Andalusia

The Tabernas is a semi-desert located in the southeastern part of Almería.
Despite the extreme drought in this area, there are many succulents. Certain plant species even grow only in the Tabernas desert. When you enter the Tabernas desert in Andalusia, it looks like you are in the Wild West. During the year it is around 17 degrees and this desert is also considered to be the only real desert in Europe.

Imanfaya Nationaal Park – (Lanzarote)

In this area you can also discover large areas of droughts. It is a volcanic landscape where you will find the most beautiful colors: red, brown, black and ochre. This landscape consists of around 24 volcanoes and is definitely worth a visit. This landscape is not seen as a desert but you certainly will not see trees or shrubs.

Desert in Spain that look like a filmset

Talking about the Wild West… Did you know that the Spanish deserts are mostly used as a film set? Very famous films, such as “The good, the bad and the ugly” and “Indiana Jones” (the last crusade) are recorded here. A real game of thrones fan will recognize the pictures of the Tabernas desert because in this desert a whole season is filmed of the popular serie. You might have expected that these big movies were only shot in America, in the real dessert. But no, this can also be done in beautiful Spain!

What doesn’t Spain have to offer! 😉

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City trip Barcelona the perfect get away

Barcelona is a perfect city to go to for a city trip. With Transavia you can fly for a small price and you won’t have to wonder what to do in this city. In this article there will be several options to seed/do in Barcelona. Don’t hesitate and convince your friends, boy/girlfriend or your family to do a city trip Barcelona and discover your inner Spaniard.

1) The typical tourist route:

We think you have heard from Gaudi before. The famous Catalan architect which designed the Sagrada Familia and the Park Güell. These famous works of Gaudi are visited by every tourist but it’s definitely worth it. Both works are the symbols of Barcelona. A ticket for the Sagrada Familia costs around the 15 euros on the internet. We recommend to buy the ticket online if you want to take a look inside before the trip because it’s cheaper, you can skip the queue, and sometimes if it is too busy they stop selling tickets at the location. To visit the Park Güell the ticket prices are around the 10 euros. We recommend the same thing with these tickets, it’s better to buy them online. If you are a big fan of Gaudi, you can visit a Gaudi experience which is a 4D movie about the life and work of the artist (around the 10 euro’s)

Besides Gaudi there are many more buildings to visit, made by famous architects. For instance, go to the Arc the triomf, the magical fountain of Montjuïc or the museum of modern art.

2) Shopping and football

If you aren’t really a fan of culture or architecture, take a look in the city center of Barcelona. While visiting this beautiful city you will also have plenty of time to take a good look into (Attention to women) the many shops Barcelona has to offer. Shop till you drop in famous stores but also in vintage shops. For the men who don’t like to shop, visit the stadium of Barcelona: camp nou. In this stadium you can visit incredible matches, so let your girl shop while you enjoy a good match.

3) Love the food, love the drinks

After all these activities you must have gotten hungry. In Barcelona you can find the best bars and restaurants. In the street La Rambla you can find many tapas bars and restaurants. Enjoy typical Spanish food and drink some Sangria with the locals. After dinner you could go to some bars near the harbor to enjoy a Spanish beer or wine. For the average prices for wine and beer click on this link.

4) Dance, dance, dance

After some drinks you maybe want to take a look in the city center of Barcelona by night. This city is perfect to have an amazing night out in spectacular clubs. Barcelona offers several clubs with a big range of music. From Latin to house dance and from hip-hop to techno. Barcelona also offers a lot of famous festivals like: Sonar festival and primavera sound. When do a city trip in Barcelona you can visit a festival as well! Combine music and culture together!

Do you want to have more information about a city trip to Barcelona? Then read this article about city trip Barcelona

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