A mid-day train ride brings us to Seville. This means we have time for a leisurely breakfast and some early morning souvenir shopping.First order of business is to ask about laundry. Great, there is a self serve place not to far from the hotel. Not so great, we got there at 2:05 and they are closed from 2pm until 4pm. (Is it any wonder there economy wasn’t doing so great?) While carrying our dirty laundry, we give in and have a very nice lunch and head ove...

We have an early train to catch so we get a cab from the hotel to the station and have Ryan figure out where we need to be. Two and half hours of train ride through the Andalusian countryside and we are in Cordoba. Our hotel is easy walking distance from the Mezquita so we drop the bags and head over to see how bad the crowds are. All I have read on message boards is get there early to beat the crowds or it isn’t worth going in. It was around 11am so I fig...

This is a day to ourselves and to return the car. The Rental place is only open until noon so we have to return it by then so we can’t sleep as late as we’d like. And, we’d like to try to find a Laundromat to clean some clothes. Apparently there are no self serve place in the whole town so that’s out. So instead, after we return the car we take the leisurely walk back to the center of town stopping in the Plaza by the cathedral for Churro...

Today starts with a morning tour of the Alhambra. Our guide picks us up in the lobby and we walk over. Granada was the last strong hold of the moors before the reconquista in 1492. Hmmm? year ring a bell? It feels like we are still in Morocco, but with a little something else. The gardens, the palace, the mosaics; everything is so beautiful. Afterwards, he shows us a short cut to the town so we don’t have to deal with twisty streets and cars. It’s a l...

So, we’re supposed to pick up the rental car around 11am. I figure after a leisurely breakfast we’d call a cab to get to the border, walk across and grab a Spanish cab on the other side. No problem, right? Nope. The receptionist called, supposedly, twice to get a cab and each time they supposedly picked us up. The other guests at the hotel had no qualms about taking cabs meant for other people. Granted, we didn’t have a plane to catch, THANK GOD...