Wednesday, 7 October, 2015

Today our major goal is to visit the famous Alhambra. Some of the group, notably the white wine drinkers from last night, are moving a bit slowly or not at all. However, Julie is out early to go to the local market and shops.

Eventually the group gets together at the Hotel and we take taxis to Alhambra. The following link will tell a much greater story than I can of this famous Moorish palace/fortress.

Link to Wikipedia story of Alhambra

****** Note the voice receivers each one in the group is wearing. The local guide has a microphone to broadcast to those receivers.

I took lots of photos, as did the others, but I only want to include a few in this Blog. I am sure that there are much better available on the Net or elsewhere and this is a food and wine Blog, not one for architecture.

We end our tour and say goodbye to our local guide, who was quite good. Most of the people went into the tourist (trap) shops. Julie said she would have just a quick peak in – was just about the last one out. In any case, we head to our lunch spot which is a restaurant within a Hotel located in the “free area” of the Alhambra.

Link to Hotel Parador, Granada

I think I missed shooting some of the dishes but it was a very nice lunch. We take taxis back to the Hotel. We are only in Granada the one night so earlier today we had brought all the bags down and put them in the storage room. We wait for our bus, yet another bus driver and company. Once it arrives we load up the luggage and then ourselves and get going. We are going to Malaga, the last stop on this tour. It is an easy drive with good roads and takes around 2 hours. I am surprised at how big Malaga is, around a million people in the area.

When we get to the Hotel we run into a problem in that the street in front of the Hotel is being torn up for some reason. It means the bus can’t get close to the Hotel and hence we have a walk, not too bad, and the suitcases need to be manually humped to the Lobby. Additionally, we will have to put up with jack-hammers out the front during our stay. In spite of all that it wasn’t really too bad.

After finally getting all the suitcases in, we make it to our room. As might be expected, Julie goes out prancing for a while.

Again tonight nothing formal is planned but we are to go out with Frank and much of the group to Malaga tapas bars.

We walk out to a bar in another area passing this along the way:

We select another bar which looks to be quite crowded but the bar puts some tables together for us an most of us get seats.

The food was good, the wine was good but we did not have the late night like the previous night. Tomorrow is the final day and we are told that it is going to be a big one.