Night Life in Nerja
For people more used to the Brit way ie. out at 7pm and back home
11ish the fact that you can pretty much find somewhere open 24 hours
(especially in summer) my come as a bit of a surprise. Some bars such as
Cayma (Post Office street) and Cococnuts (Antonio Millon) and Bogeys
(C/Pintada and a gay bar) are not even thinking about opening much
before 11pm, and stay open until 6 or 7am. By which time the breakfast
bars are starting to open.
Tutti Frutti Square (just off Castilla Perez) is the mainstay of late
night life in Nerja where you can find a dozen or so late bars. Just off
the square, on Antonio Millon there are late bars too, and in the summer
months, generally from San Juan on the 23rd July when the road is closed
to vehicle traffic, and there are tables and chairs where you can enjoy
the atmosphere without dying of heat in the bars, although you need to
watch out for the odd scooter or motorbike.
There are Discotheques too (Jimmies on Ant Millon) Narixa (behind the
church on The Bacon de Europa) but are generally for the much
younger crowd.
Some of the Disco's charge an entrance fee which will include your
first drink, and the locals can make this drink last all night, having
topped up earlier at cheaper bars.
Spaniards tend to have at least some food with their alcohol and this
helps with their ability to stay out very late. Tapas are still readily
available and can either be free, where the bar provides their choice of
food, or for a small surcharge where you get to choose, usually from a
bar top refrigerated display. There are also designer Tapas bars where
you can pay up to 8/9 euros for something a bit more exotic. An hour or
to doing a "Tapas Run" can set you up for the night without costing a
fortune. You also get to see a lot more bars if you use the one bar-one
Tapas rule and then move on. Generally the better the location, the more
expensive drinks will be. But there are lots of great bars with drinks
less expensive just off the beaten track, in less "good locations".
Nerja is a maze of streets and alleyways, so you rarely have to walk
more than a couple of hundred metres to the next bar. Any establishment
with the word Club is invariably a brothel.
Drinks:
For those who don't have a constitution that can stand six or seven
hours drinking without falling over, and are not a fan of soft drinks,
why not try a Tinto de Verano, a mix of red wine and Casera (sort of
slightly sweet soda) or with Fanta Limon. You seem to be able to drink
this all night without the effects just drinking the wine might have.
If you ask for a Vino Tinto (red wine) you will generally get the
cheaper stuff. If a better quality is what you need, then ask for Vino
Tinto Rioja. In the summer months you may well be asked if you would
like your red wine Frio or normal. Your choice.
Licquor:
The measure here are huge, at least four times the size of a normal
Brit measure, so take care!
In a tubo, a straight glass filled with ice, this usually means
halfway up the glass. The ice here is potable as is the water.
Spanish gin, Larios, and most Spanish brandies are excellent quality,
but if you do want a Gordon's gin expect to pay more. Spanish whiskey
DYC is pretty awful, but Bells and such are readily available and not
expensive unless you need single malts.
Beer:
The Spanish drink lots of beer, both draught and bottled, with
draught being the cheaper option. All beers are quite strong here, and
there are no beers with less than 5% abv so again be aware.
Soft Drinks:
The usual global monsters are here, but the generic names for fizzy
orange or lemon is Fanta Naranja and Fanta Limon. This does not mean
that you will necessarily get the Fanta brand tho'. You can also get all
the juices you would expect.
Tea:
If you like tea with milk you will probably be disappointed. You
usually end up with a glass of warm milk and water and a tea bag. But,
the Spanish like lemon tea and they also have a wide range of infusions
such as camomile.
Coffee:
Cafe con leche: half coffee/half milk.
Cafe Sombre: more milk than coffee.
Cafe or Cafe Solo: black coffee.
Cafe Cortado: coffee with a wee drop of milk.
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