In LOVE with ANTEQUERA

Plaza San Sebastian - Antequera

Alcazaba castle in Antequera

YAAAY!!!
We have finally found a cozy place, ....... with only locals who do not speak English, with children our age, football fields, tennis courts and friendly people. The town looked small and has history with monuments and a castle. This place looked felt good....ANTEQUERA will be our home for 3 months!

Mom and Steven went with by train to Antequera and Dad, the suitcases & I went by car. Dad, the suitcases & I were lost on the way so we only arrived in Antequera at 17:00 and we still had to find an apartment.

Eating traditional Spanish dish "Tapas" 

It was very difficult to find an apartment to rent for 3 months. Most of the apartments could only be rented for a year, but after insisting there was one real estate man who wanted to help us. He had an aunt who had an apartment in the middle of the center with  2 bedrooms, a balcony, basic furniture, but no WIFI.
We had a look and that same evening we arrived in Antequera we moved into the apartment.

"TAPAS"
We something to celebrate so we had gone to a restaurant and ate " Tapas" a very Spanish traditional dish(es). Every restaurant has different kind of tapas. Tapas are plates with different kinds of food. One plate of fish with vinegar oil and bread, one plate with mayonnaise salad and olives. One with bread sticks, meat in a delicious sauce. It is always a big surprise what your " Tapa" will be in a restaurant.

Churrios with creamy hot chocolate

CHURRIOS

We also discovered Churrios, a very traditional dish. It is a soft, yummy round biscuit which you dip in your creamy hot chocolate!! Of course I insisted to have a churrios-afternoon and it tasted very Yummy!


Settling in in Antequera
After a nice long sleep we had the whole day to unpack and clean the apartment. We had swept, washed, cleaned everything. It looked Spic and Span!! While Steven, Mum & I were cleaning. Dad was looking for a WIFI solution, but there was nothing except the library which had WIFI. Dad had asked in every Vodafone , Movie star, Orange phone shop if they had a Wifi stick or modem  They all did not have it, or they did have it with a contract for one year. We had gone to places and had found one shop which had an electronic item. You press the button and your whole house has WIFI . It's very handy, but it is not enough to download stuff and it can't do all the things we need.

School in Antequera in a beautiful library

Library hall

Mom teaching Steven

So, for school we had to find a solution and Mom, Steven and I started school the following morning in the LIBRARY. It is a beautiful library where you can study outside in a patio and still work on wifi. For now it is good weather, but in November, December it might be too cold so we must see if we can sit inside and talk without disturbing people. This week started our new routines and we have school from 9:00 - 13:00 there. Before breakfast dad and I go walking at 7:00 to see how the town comes to life while looking and finding different streets and places.

SPORTS!!!!

List of Sports

The only thing missing was sports in the afternoon. Especially when we like eating Churrios and Tapas. In the center of the town (next to the Plaza de Torros) we found a soccerfield/club for Steven. He is now playing soccer every Monday, Wednesday and Thursday. Antequera also has a big sport center which has many things, but not the ones for me. They offer basketball, athletics  volleyball and gymnastics. Unfortunately they do not play hockey in Antequera so I tried out dancing. However it was more like doing gymnastics with cartwheels and splits etc. I can't do most of them because I am scared to hurt my back. So I will try next week some different sports like swimming (in a big indoor swimming pool) and tennis. Mom went to her first Pilates class and as I said dad is walking with me every morning.

So, the first week was good. We sorted out all our things that we needed for the coming months and we feel very at home in Antequera.

Next week: Discovering Antequera
Hasta pronto

Louisa