We headed off from Murcia towards Granada a little apprehensively given our travelling experiences of yesterday. By contrast with yesterday this drive started well and rapidly progressed to stunning and then to amazing.
The route took us 280 kilometres along a secondary motorway past spectacular scenery and stunning infrastructure development. There are cranes everywhere.
We passed through and along various low mountain ranges towards the snow covered peaks of the Sierra Nevada’s and Granada itself.
Coffee in Spain ranges from magnificent to poor. We sampled the magnificent end of the scale at a little wayside café where we sat on the veranda and enjoyed the morning sunshine.
Lunch was equally pleasurable with bread, cheese and fruit purchased in a small village outside Granada and consumed at a little roadside park looking out over farmland and back towards the mountains.
Experiencing adversity makes you strong. Adversity can come in many forms one of which are GPS navigation systems that have yet to learn the full intricacies of the streets of Granada that are sometimes limited to buses and taxis in one direction and to other traffic in the other direction. Getting to the hotel for Bernie and I was a complex procedure – for John and Merie it was a nightmare involving close encounters with Police, steel bollards and irritated taxi drivers.
One of the many things you can say about Merie and Bernadette as travel companions is that they will not let any form of adversity get in the way of enjoying the trip so within a short time of checking into the hotel, John and I found ourselves accompanying them to an Arabian bathhouse, soaking in hot and cold pools, sipping sweet Arabian tea and enjoying a pleasant, gentle massage.
Our hotel is a nice two star venue close to the city square. On a Friday night the square is alive with families, tourists, young people and diners. We enjoyed tapas, Paella (“paya” ) and Sangria before retiring early. We were unable to get pre-purchased tickets for the Alhambra tomorrow and accordingly we would need to rise early to be at the site well before ticket sales started at 8.00am. The chosen arrival time at the venue was 7:30.
One of the many things you can say about Merie and Bernadette as travel companions is that they will not let any form of adversity get in the way of enjoying the trip so within a short time of checking into the hotel, John and I found ourselves accompanying them to an Arabian bathhouse, soaking in hot and cold pools, sipping sweet Arabian tea and enjoying a pleasant, gentle massage.
Our hotel is a nice two star venue close to the city square. On a Friday night the square is alive with families, tourists, young people and diners. We enjoyed tapas, Paella (“paya” ) and Sangria before retiring early. We were unable to get pre-purchased tickets for the Alhambra tomorrow and accordingly we would need to rise early to be at the site well before ticket sales started at 8.00am. The chosen arrival time at the venue was 7:30.
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