Adventuring in Spain: Here's What My Mom Thought of Málaga

I can't believe she didn't like the paella!

This is the paid follow-up to 5 Tips for Your Trip to Málaga, Spain. If you don’t have a paid subscription, don’t worry. The last post was free, and the next one will be too! This post is for the people who help me pay for grad school and adventures with paid subscriptions—and those who have appeared in my blog posts and videos over the years. Thank you!

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Convincing my mom to come to Spain took a lot of work. It wasn’t that my mom isn’t a well-traveled lady or didn’t genuinely want to visit her only child halfway across the world. What she worried about most was the length of the flight and the cost. I assured her that if she bought the ticket, she would have an excellent time at my expense.

And boy did I deliver! I booked and paid for our full itinerary weeks before she ever landed in Madrid. We spent most of her time here in my new home city, but I was dying to show her around Málaga. I also hadn’t been back since I visited in March 2023, so I was looking forward to seeing my favorite Spanish city again!

It did not disappoint.

Let’s start with some of the things my mom loved about Málaga.