Day 94, 6 October 2012, Madrid - In three days or less! - We ventured along the Paseo de Prado and were overwhelmed with the lushness of the public buildings and sculptures everywhere, for example Plaza de Cibeles. Eventually we took a left and meandered down to Plaza Mayor (remember, that´s Pla-tha with a "th"). Our goal today was to check out a free tour provided by a company called Sandemans. It is the first of hopefully many tours as they operate in most ...

Day 93, 5 October 2012, Relaxing in downtown Granada by day... train to Madrid by night - We returned to downtown Granada at midday after checking out (loving this civilised notion of a midday check out as standard). We took a different route and headed down through the gardens with chattering channels of water following us downhill. Turned out we were in the Alhambra Wood and we managed to trip over an incredible exhibition of photographs of marine creatures g...

Day 92, 4 October 2012, The Alhambra (Generalife Palace and Gardens and the Alcazaba Fortress), Granada, Spain. Utter luxury this morning... a hotel buffet breakfast. We know it was supposed to be all you can eat... not all you can carry, but we must admit to a couple of chocolate croissants departing with us after breakfast. Maybe a couple of other morsels.... We headed down the hill via the path of the Sad People, behind the Alhambra and followed the banks of t...

Day 91, 3 October 2012, Travel Day - Arcos de la Frontera to Granada. The Alhambra, Granada, Spain - Treating ourselves to a couple of nights at lodgings with the word "Hotel" in the name for our 2 night sojourn in Granada. Hotel Alixares to be precise. 200m uphill from the Alhambra site. Probably it's only redeeming virtue. In any event it was a busy old day. A taxi we pre-ordered two days in advance actually turned up on the button of 11 am and we were duly im...

Day 90, 2 October 2012, Arcos de la Frontera.... Three months on the go. After a wonderful 8 days in Arcos we are both a little sad to be farewelling it. It is ancient, quaint, startlingly white due to frequent painting, 20% of the old town seems to be for sale or rent due to the general misery of the Spanish economy, but it's been our longest stop since we left home. Over our time here we explored the old town with the assistance of a walking tour brochure pu...