Granada and general travel

Trip to Seville was by bus and, apart from us, noone seemed to think there was anything to look at! How wrong!!! Huge fields of sunflowers all in a row, facing the same way - quite amazing really. As far as your eye can see sometimes. Also even larger areas of olive trees - once again all in a row - but stretch for miles on end. Quite neat geometric patterns really.

Wind power - windmills through some areas and then large banks of solar panels in others.

Many large stretches of nothing much to see but then you go up a hill and hello there are a number of settlements with many houses painted white and shining in the sun (is this a song?) usually with an old cathedral or walls of a city and then mountains.

Found the adult form of a dummy on our last bus trip! A toothpick. Some elderly gentleman sucked on one for the whole 3 hour trip. Respect!



Travelling from Cordoba to Grenada we met an American couple about our age. He’d been in the military and flew for free from USA to anywhere in the world a military plane happened to be going. She was from Taiwan. He had a bad back and a loopy knee, so she carried both of their packs. Is this a trend? David was impressed.

Anyways Grenada was hot but cool. Main attraction is the Alhambra, which we were both very taken with. Built by the Arabic (Moroccan) Moors, it was quite a contrast to other buildings we have seen. Rather than images, lots of very intricate carved patterns on walls and ceilings; beautiful fountains and gardens, perched high on a hill inside some impressive walls. The whole thing was stunning.

Walked around Granada quite a bit as well - cool place with probably more than we gave ourselves a chance to see. Great having the mountains and snow in the background, although temperatures where we were were in the mid 30s. Lots of liquids to be consumed. Oh well…