San Anton Granada

After a fairly sucessful run as an advertising executive in Austin, Texas, I decided to lease my house, sell my things,and quit my job to explore Central America. I have no agenda and no time constraints. I am on an open ended walk about and I love it!

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Our excursion to Central America covered portions of the three countries of Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama. We spent approximately one week in each of the three countries and in each we met our normal quota of Gary and Linda misadventures. I hope you ...

... i got to the Granada bus station i went outside and pretty much stepped right into a taxi and asked him to take me to Hotel San Anton where i would meet my host mom. That was possibly the easiest part of the whole trip. He understood me when i spoke, we ...

... in the late afternoon after a bus ride from Marbella via Malaga. We were pretty much exhausted by the time we checked-into the Hotel San Anton. Once settled in, we left and took a long walk to the Plaza Nueva. I ate dinner in a restaurant along the square ...

... Portugal haha from Lagos to Faro. That lasted about 2 hours and then we had an hour break and then from Faro to Villa Real de San Anton which was another two hours. So we get to Villa Real de San Anton and walk out of the train station and have no idea ...

... thrown in.We bought a few souvenirs, including a Don Quixote! We then jumped in the car for an air conditioned drive down to Granada. Which unfortunately is not another Toledo. None the less it was a lively Friday night so we ventured out for a very nice ...

... which had green bushes of pink flowers growing around them, contrasting the tan canyon surroundings. We arrived at our hotel in Granada, Hotel San Anton. From the entrance we could see snow-capped mountains of the Sierra Nevada. I was amazed that there is ...

... following the well-established tourist circuit of San Juan del Sur, Ometepe Island and the colonial cities of Leon and Granada. Now Granada is a place where I wouldn’t mind spending three months. It is a city resplendent in its Spanish colonial ...