Granda Spain

... and took an hour long tour. Alhambra is a fotress, palace, and ancient city dating from the 9th century when the Muslims ruled Spain.We all got those little listening devises and did the quick tour of the place with the devises glued to our ears. Kim got ...

... Lumpur, Malaysia; Brighton, Oxford and London, England; Madrid, Toledo, Granada, Ronda, Mazagon and Cordoba, Spain with stops in Alhama de Granda, Antequera, Algeciras, Tarifa, Jerez de la Frontera, Huelva (actually, that was more getting lost, not ...

We arrived in Granda on 22nd and were met by Juan Pedro, Lubrin's taxi driver, who drove us to what will be our Spanish home for the next few weeks.  The weather was just beautiful, sunny, 18-20 degrees - very similar to a SEQ winter day.  ...

... looms over the central part of the city. Today I meandered around the Albacin, which is the old Islamic area of Granda. This area is on a hill adjacent to the Alhambra. The buildings are all whitewashed and crammed together with winding streets. The ...

... let everyone know about my trip is by posting in a blog (Sorry to copy you MP. It was just such a great idea!!). I arrived in Spain on Sunday. The flight was easy thanks to the meds I took after dinner. Everyone on the plane spoke Spanish. When they came ...

Today was a very productive day for me. I've been wanting to go exploring for a while. We've seen a lot of Granada, but there are many parts we have not yet discovered.  This morning we had planned to meet, and go to some places on our map that we ...

... have built at the center of every city? Would they have invented Bowling Alleys that much earlier than the Canadians? Anyways, Granda turned out to be unlike any city on Earth... With its friendly citizens and amazing Muslim neighborhood which wound ...

... for Spain, and was buried there, but historians don't buy the Spanish origin theory.  But I digress..... GRANDA'S GREATEST ATTRACTION:  Granada has its usual quotient of churches, museums etc. typical for a southern European city. ...

... which is all freeway.  The road winding north out of Malaga was a slow but steep climb in the Sierra Nevada  of Spain.  I kept wondering the further north and seeing home high on the crest of hills, with no obvious access, why would someone ...

... Overall, Barcelona was nothing but amazing and I can´t wait to one day return and see the finished product of Sagrada Familia. Onto Granda, didn´t have that much info on the place, was just told not to miss, well thank god I didn´t, the food ...

... commentary that while they mentioned that one whole neighborhood was called Granada el Yahoud - Granada of the Jews - and that Granda had once had a sizable Jewish community - they failed to mention that Isabel and Ferdinand expelled them, along with all ...

... ; Immediately she remembered you from the Spanish program at UTSA back in the mid 90's.  She told me to tell you hi!) Granda is a city of narrow and twisty roads...  I know that's pretty much the case in all of Europe, but Granada's streets ...