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12 October 2003
Going to Alhambra Today could be considered the highlight of our trip to Spain as we will visit Alhambra, the Moorish palace and fortress complex. After breakfast, we bought a sandwich to take along for the uphill hike to Alhambra. We entered through the wrong entrance which gave access to the free-of-charge areas. As we […]
11 October 2003
Madinat Al-Zahra Today we’re moving on from Cordoba to Granada but we’re taking an excursion out of town before making that move. We took breakfast at a café behind the Mezquita before walking down to the riverside to catch the bus tour to Madinat Al-Zahra. The journey was only about 7km and quick. This site […]
10 October 2003
Train to Cordoba Today we move from Sevilla to Cordoba. The two cities are linked by train and we hailed a taxi to take us to the station. Getting to the impressive-looking station around 1015, we checked the schedule to find that the next slow train would be after 1300 (priced at EUR7, taking 90 […]
9 October 2003
We slept in again, till around 0830. Rather than repeat yesterday’s breakfast at Plaza Alfalfa, we had some cereal in our room before going out for a morning cuppa. We continued towards the river and the bullring, Plaza de Toros. The bullring was huge, seating 14000 spectators. It even has its own operating theatre in […]
8 October 2003
Cathedral & Giralda We overslept, waking around 0800. Perhaps it was due to our room window opening into the courtyard which meant we had no direct sunlight. We had been relatively unaffected by jetlag so far, despite having flown from the opposite side of the globe. We walked to Plaza Alfalfa for a simple breakfast […]