Wednesday 11 July, on a recommendation from a friend we have changed hotels and moved up the hill to the Alhambra for our last night in Granada. The hotel is the Alhambra Palace and is very beautiful inside with similar decorations in the walls to that which you would find in the Alhambra itself. After arriving this morning we walked back to the city centre and then into an area called the Albaycin which is one of the oldest arab areas in the city. There was a co...

Day 13 Tuesday 10 July and we are up early to go on a tour of the Alhambra. Our guide was not as interesting as the one in Seville. We were all hooked up to personal hearing devices which is understandable when you realise that the Alhambra has around 8000 visitors a day and 3 million a year which means it's particularly crowded and would be difficult to be heard if all the guides spoke loudly to their groups. When we first met our guide we walked for some 10 min...

Day 12 Monday 9 July. From Ronda back to Seville then onto Granada. An early start to drop the car back to Seville by 11am, once again noticing all the sun flowers and little white villages of the Andaluz along the way. The train system is very good in Spain and today the one to Granada is full. It has 8 stops from Seville to Granada and we pass once again olive trees, sun flowers, olive trees, wheat fields and more olive trees with dusty little Andalusian vill...