Arriving at Madrid at 1 o´clock this night was not as troublesome as we had expected. After a small detour with the metro we arrived at our hotel, found something to eat and were in bed by 3 o´clock.
Today has been very active. After an Andalucian style breakfast we went down to the Museo Nacional [...]
The last day we decided to be a bit cultural and go to the old Moorish town of Jaén. It’s relatively big and full of historical sites. Unfortunately, Monday is not a tourist day in Jaén and all the sites we wanted to visit were closed. However, Lonely Planet tells us there is an exquisite [...]
Sunday morning we headed straight to the beach and enjoyed the sun for a few hours. It was great to get a swim in the ocean although the waves were rather big – actually so big the looped me roll over backwards. But none of us has much patience for a beach and just after [...]
Kasper had (as usual) no problem with getting to sleep whereas I had a few hours in our rather unusual accommodation before I fell asleep. The backdrop of singing zikades and view to multiple shooting stars on the Andalucian sky above was wonderful though, and we woke up the next morning around 9 o’clock ready [...]
As some of you might know Nina has come to visit us for a couple of days. Nina and I haven’t had the opportunity this summer to go away on vacation together so we thought that we’d drive around the countryside in Andalucia for a couple of days exploring the small villages.
We headed off today [...]
…(or the Poet in New York) is a dance performance running in the gardens of the Alhambra (”Generalife”) until the 31st of August. We went to see this excellent performance the same day that Nina (Kaspers girlfriend) arrived to visit us. It is a flamenco dance performance written and choreographed by the famous spanish coreograph [...]
The last village on our excursion was a very hot stop. Eventhough it is high up in the mountains the heat was emmense. Capaleira is situated in the same valley as Pampaneira but much higher and on the pictures it is clear that the village produces a very picturesque environment.
The picture speaks for themselves but notice the
A 45 minutes drive on narrow mountain roads later we arrived at Trevélez. This small village is often said to be the highest village in Spain, elevated 1476 m. above the ocean, and being so is often used as an offset for mountaneers venturing off into the Sierra Nevada.
Our first goal in Trevélez was lunch. [...]
The second village we visited was Pampaneira. This is one of three villages which is clinging to the side of the deep Barranco de Poqueira ravine and is one of the most dramatically sited, and most touristed, in Las Alpujarras. The white washed stone houses seem to clamber over each other in an effort not to [...]
This morning we got up at 8.00, oversleeping half an hour. We met up at the “Palacio de Congresos y Exposiciones” (The congress center) with the bus and the about 20 other people going on the trip to the Alpujarras. And guess what: We have our camera up and running. You can see pictures from our [...]
All real websites and blogs needs to have competitions - and so does ours. We therefor now launch the big “What you can’t miss in Granada”-Competition.
The competition is simple. Find a site, monument or other place of interest within the vicinity of Granada and write a comment on the page GRANADA with info on the place. [...]
Yesterday we wanted to put our spanish skills to a test, so we got tickets to the brand new Transformers Movie. It was on in a cinema not far from where we live in a shopping mall by the name Neptuna. We have marked it in the map in the map section.
In Spain they don’t [...]
As written earlier, Alhambra is an astonishing castle built by an Arabian king in the 13th century. The gigantic castle and it’s palace and gardens dwell on the side of a cliff in the great Sierra Nevada mountain range.
Today we decided to put down our books and go study one of the most significant remnants of [...]