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16 October 2003
Leaving Spain Our Spanish adventure finishes today and we head back to London and then to Downham Market in Norfolk. We have part of the morning free before our 1300 flight to London Heathrow. We settled our bill with the hostal before breakfast. They accept cash or card, so I thought I’d check if they […]
15 October 2003
Lazy sightseeing We repeated our breakfast at Museo de Jamon. My breakfast drink of hot chocolate was a delicious thick drink of the consistency of pea soup or warmed up chocolate mousse. I had expected something like in Argentina where they give you a chocolate bar to dissolve into hot milk. After breakfast, we walked […]
14 October 2003
Breakfast With the late night yesterday, we had a late start waking up around 09090. We popped over to a chain outlet called Museo de Jamon for a cheap breakfast. There were lots of whole ham legs hanging from the ceiling, some still oozing. They range from EUR7 to 45 per kg. When cut they […]
13 October 2003
Sights of Granada We have a night flight to Madrid and have most of the day available to us here in Granada. We started with breakfast at Pans & Company, a sandwich chain somewhat like Subway but better bread. We had a slow start because Kim had trouble sleeping last night. Walking to the cathedral […]
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 […]
7 October 2003
Above: Tower Bridge as we descend over London. Paris to London Today, we are bound for Sevilla in Spain, via London. After breakfast we took the metro to Opera and hopped on the Roissybus to Charles de Gaulle airport Terminal 1. It was much easier than the train! It may seem strange that we are […]