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Now we really suffer for not having our guidebook. The streets are a terrible maze and the odd no-entry policy w/ cameras filming your car plates makes it difficult to get in the Cathedral vacinity. Granada really protects its heritage and tries to minimize the congestion in its Antiquity center. We burn more time and miss the Cathedral and museums before close, but fortunately there is a mass on and we enter as parishoners. Lyn and I believe the Cathedral in G...

The day the girls dread.  Drive to Granada and look at decaying buildings and chipped paintings!!   Lyn and I pack them in by 10 am and spin the tale of the Moors and Christians....explaining the Alhambra is one of the most treasured and preserved monuments of Europe.   The scenery is beautiful en route (mountainous olive and almond groves)and we make it from Marbella to Granada in 1:45 hrs.     We have a 2 pm entry ticket which I fortunately ordered a...

Tired from Granada return at 1 am....we drag out of the Marriott Marbella at 11 am, faced with missing our 1 pm ferry to Tangiers. Sometime the first day at the Marriott, a maid or the maintenance guys fixing our drain took $300 I left on our credenza in the Master bedroom. Being a vacation ownership, I didn't realize they'd have room service each day to refresh towels, otherwise I'd have locked it up. The Marriott namesake gives a false sense of ...