This hostel is pretty good - it is opposite the Alhambra, and has a swimming pool on the rooftop. We haven´t been able to get tickets for the Alhambra - one, they have no more allocations online, and two, we cannot be bothered getting up early to queue. We have vaguely promised we will make an effort tomorrow morning... It has now been a month s...

At first one would think that a Spanish bus ride for 5 hours from Madrid to the Sierra Nevada would be the most horendous journey... In actuality the bus companies here are giving Greyhound a run for their money. So nice. Didn´t even feel like 5 hours. The highlight of this trip for me was the fact that we went to the Sierra Nevada to ski. This ...

So we got off the bus after a lovely 9 hours and decided to walk to our hostel instead of paying the euro to take the bus...out hostel was on the other side of the map. Walking, walking, walking... We grabbed a baguette and sat on the curb after a while (about an hour and a half) and tried to figure out on the map we were. We had been following ...