My friend and I decided to go by Metro to Huelin. There is a flea market and a vintage clothing shop there apparently. My reason for going was that I wanted to go on the Metro in Malaga and didn’t know where to go. Its taken so long to complete a part of it that I felt I may have met my maker by the time the system is totally complete.
My friend being younger, wanted to explore the vintage clothes shop. (I have seen these fashions come and go, done the Mini, 70s clumpy look, and the huge hair and shoulders of the 80s)!
We arrived at the bus station and she looked on the map and decided that the vintage shop was only 10 mins away, (so no Metro trip for me) along Calle Heroe de Sosta. We found the shop but it was not really vintage, just second hand clothes, with expensive price tags, but as they were closing down everything was 3e or 5e, (they are going online). I found it a bit smelly, they had sprayed with a strong air freshener to mask the smell of some trainers, and I don’t know which was worse! I got a beach top and sunglasses, (beach top too small, so donated it to Cudeca), my friend got three items, all with a ‘label’. for 9e! We felt we had to buy something, as we had made an effort to get there.
Onwards and upwards we returned to Calle Heroe de Sosta and after about 5 minutes we saw a right hand turning and at the top we saw the market. (It really isn’t worth going on the metro because it would only be two stops from the bus station). I think the flea market is on every Wednesday, but I couldn’t find much information, there is plenty on the Mercadillo, but that is a daily covered market, I just think we were lucky in finding it with the help of a website called ‘foursquare.com’ this site suggested it was at Cruz de Humilladero. Neither of us are good at following Google maps, and really it was quite a fluke we found it as quickly as we did.
By this time it was 12.30 and they pack in at 2pm, but we found a stall with mountains of clothes for 1e each or ‘7 for 5e’, so into the piles we dived determined to get seven items! We did, mostly ‘labels’, Zara, Gerry Webber, and Punto Roma, and others we didn’t know. Some people were just loading their arms up without looking! Much better than the vintage shop, and the smallholder even gave us bags to stuff our booty in.
Then there were new trainers for 6e, didn’t need any, but had to have some! I was wilting in the unusual February sun and some stalls had started dismantling by 1.30pm so we went for tapas and a drink.
After our lunch break we decided to see the Automotive Museum location, we didn’t want to go into the museum, just find out how to get there, and go another day. It was quite nearby, only about 15 mins walk, located in a 1930s converted tobacco factory, along with a business centre and the Russian museum. We found it with no problem and popped out heads in the door and discovered there was no one on duty on the desk or anywhere on the ground floor, so we wandered about for 10 mins and then left! It really needs a long visit, the old Designer dresses were wonderful with descriptions of who wore them and when, and beautifully displayed. The cars were amazing too, but as we really shouldn’t have been there so we didn’t linger.
The whole area of Huelin is lovely, with very wide pavements, and it has a different feel to Malaga City. We then went to the beach and sat for a while before going back the way we came, exhausted.
So no Metro trip for me, but what I did do was get the free booklets from the El Perchal station giving me information. One small booklet is the times and the stations on lines 1 and 2 , the other larger one is a map of Malaga with practical information on monuments and museums, and the two Metro routes clearly visible on the map. So I would suggest when you go to the bus station, pop into the huge cavern that is the metro, and collect some booklets.
