Well, here we are! All excited to board in Vancouver and set off on our adventure to Spain. prior to this, we spent a couple of nights in Vancouver at Tyler and Matt’s condo in Kitsilano. They were both sick (first Matt and then Tyler) with food poisoning. What a drag to have company while you are sick, but they were good sports about it all.

Our travelling companions, Dan and Fran arrived at YVR at about 9:30 Am on the day of our departure (May 9th)  after getting up at 4 am to catch the Air North flight from Whitehorse. We met at Mary’s Diner on Davie for lunch before catching an Uber to the airport.

Checkin and security went smoothly and soon we were aboard our flight for the first leg from YVR to Zurich. We had a family behind us with a feral toddler who, when he wasn’t screaming like an animal being tortured, was either kicking the back of my seat or opening and closing the table tray endlessly. Not the best 9 and a half hours we ever spent. I’ve been that guy with the screaming toddler on the plane, so I felt some sympathy for them. Some.

Upon landing in Zurich, we had a very quick turnaround, so we had to speed walk to the train to take us to another terminal to make the connection. only another 1000 miles to go! I feel asleep on the shoulder of the German or Swiss  guy sitting next to me and woke up to him pushing me upright. Sorry, man.

We landed in Malaga at about 3:15 local time and set about finding our way to our Airbnb condo, which, by the way, is pretty spectacular. Once we settled in, we were met by friends of Dan and Fran, Maggie and Greg, who have already been here a month or so and will be in Spain for another month before heading back. They toured us through some of the local sites and helped us get the general layout of Malaga.

After a few drinks and some food, we headed back to our condo for some much needed rack time. It was a lot for one day.