The Malaga airport is just 10 minutes away from the heart of Torremolinos. Torremolinos is the only gay resort town in Europe close to a major airport, making it very easy to get away without driving for hours. With more than three-dozen gay bars and nightclubs, the city boasts that it has the most gay venues of any Spanish city outside of Madrid or Barcelona. If you are like most people from the USA, you probably have never heard of Torremolinos, but it is one of the gayest vacation towns in the world. They responded by cheering U-S-A, U-S-A, over and over again in the plaza until it was getting a little embarrassing. 'San Francisco, California, USA?' one of the guys asked. I explained that I was a journalist from San Francisco and was writing an article on gay travel to Costa del Sol.
Two young Spanish men approached and asked me why I was taking pictures. I was taking photos of the bustling street scene outside the gay bars and nightclubs in Torremolinos, on Spain's famed Costa del Sol. It is something Americans do not hear often in Europe.
