Shopping the Markets in Southern Spain

Near market entrance in Southern Spain

My husband, Tim, and I just returned from a wonderful two-week trip to Spain - a country we had just barely skimmed over 25 years ago when we briefly visited Barcelona. This trip was split into two parts - the first part in a time-share in the Andalusia (southern Spain) area and the second part in an apartment in central Madrid. Both parts were exceptional and I am in the midst of sorting and editing over 2500 photos in order to create two travel journals - this may take a while.

Tim is a good shopping companion

One of the great things about visiting southern Spain (Malaga Area) are the HUGE outdoor markets held in different cities/towns every day of the week. We spent several sunny, warm hours at a market not far from the city of Malaga (Arroyo de la Miel). I did most of my souvenir/gift shopping at this market and wished I had a reasonable way to buy and ship more items.

I found a number of items that were particularly well priced and a willingness to "haggle", particularly if you were buying more than one item from a seller. Not surprisingly, I ended up with "twos" of many things.

Here are some photos of this day at the market. I am sure I will come up with more "Spain" postings and probably more "shopping" postings as well!  This is a lovely area!

Nice rugs and textiles

Floral stands - these were prices at 2.5 to 3.0 euros - not bad!

The ceramics were beautifully done - very tempting but I didn't want the burden of hauling these.

Look at the great price on these oranges! 

I bought one of these necklaces - it may go my sister for her recent birthday! 

I loved these little purses and bought one for each of my granddaughters . 

I REALLY loved these textiles and the price was pretty good. I had no way of getting them home however.

Shopping - it was a lot of fun!