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Travel Blogs from Granada

The Alhambra - Jewel in the Moorish Crown

A travel blog entry by daviddx

Today dear readers we explored the Alhambra at Granada. Well, it was sensational. We were told by Alex our tour director and mentor that it would be a highlight. He was not wrong. The Alhambra sits high on the hills overlooking Granada and is primarily a Moorish castle and palace with a later addition of a Christian palace. First a brief and …

The grandeur of Granada

A travel blog entry by kathytan

The city of Granada is located at the foot of the Sierra Nevada mountains at the junction of the Darro and Genil rivers. The Moors settled in Granada in the early 700s, and established a long lasting and affluent kingdom. For centuries the Moorish empire grew; Not until 1492, during the Christian Reconquista, did the Moorish kingdom of Granada …

Arriving in Granada

A travel blog entry by kerry.mundy

We had a long drive to Granada which is close to the Sierra Nevada mountains in the south of Spain. We stopped at some old windmills in the La Mancha district which featured in the movie "Man of La Mancha" and Craig had a photo next to a statue of Don Quoxite - getting right into the spirit.
We finally arrived in Granada mid afternoon - quite a …

Slippery Tales of Wetness

A travel blog entry by diedopstap

So as of last friday I have arrived in the beautiful and as it turns out not so big city of Granada. Well known outside Spain for the Alhambra (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alhambra)
and less well known for its astonishing 80.000 students. At the moment I�m couchsurfing with 3 of them - Thomas, Fr�derick & Jos� (I�ll let you figure out which ones are Belgium Erasmus students and which one is Spanish). I consider this a great leap forwards from ...

Rest day

A travel blog entry by masters

... be a problem. Luckily we don't need the battery for anything except music when we stop because we hook up to the electric points.

Walter managed the 10km uphill straight and many other long hills with no problems, which was a relief.

En route we decided that we would go to Cordoba after all, but we would go by bus from Granada. So we went back to the same campsite in Granada for convenience; it had really filled up and the Germans had ...