Grenada

=GRANADA= Leaving Mijas behind early in the morning seemed like a good idea at first. No traffic on the way down the mountainside, easy peasy until we met the motorway. Still dark until after 8am we discovered the lights on our little Ford Punto to be about 2 candle power so when we hit the motorway where half of southern Spain seemed to be in a rush to get to work and went whistling by us at speeds very much in excess of the 120km speed limit. It was terrifying until the sun finally arose – just after Gail said “At least you haven’t got the sun in your eyes” – guess what? Yep… we were headed straight into it. We did make Granada in one piece and spent an enjoyable morning wandering through the Alhambra which is a collection of palaces, gardens and fortresses all surrounded by a high stone wall. It is yet another magnificent example of the mixture of Moorish and Christian architecture with different parts constructed in different eras/centuries etc.
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We went on to Linares in the late afternoon – just picked it off the map – it turned out to be an industrial mining town which, we gathered, sees few tourists. We reckoned we were in all probability the only ones in town that night. Finding a local outdoor eatery near what is their sort of Rambles area (meeting, walking, kids playing etc) we had a few tapas, 2 beers, 3 wines all for less than 9 Euros (about $14!!!)
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