Part 3 - Granada

Arriving in Granada can only be described as stressful. We were only going to be here for one night and we didn't really want to waste time. The sat nav really wasn't helpful as well which didn't help. 't is a city with tiny one way streets that are restricted for most cars. It took us an hour driving around all these super tiny streets with cobbled stones to find a secure car park for our little rental vehicle. Finally safely parking in the smallest car underground car park that was very claustrophobic, we tried to find the hotel.

The hotel was in a perfect location, right in the heart of the old city. Due to being the back end of Holy Week we weren't able to get a ticket to visit the Alhambra, the most famous buildings. This is the most busiest time for the Alhambra, something that we didn't know. Luckily you can see Alhambra from most angles as it is on top of a hill.

We spent the afternoon doing a quick self guided walk which our tour guide book recommended. We walked along the cobbled streets and saw lots of beautiful buildings, churches, stacks of beggars and feral cats. We walked around for a few hours and headed up the top to the Moorish quarter Albayzin. This Moorish Quarter is regarded as Spain's best. It is very unique, it is an odd mix of touristy rubbish and gritty, There are so many twisty lanes it is very easy to get lost. A lot of 'smelly' hippies/gypsies live up here, so you can smell incense and lots of folk music playing. We headed up the hill following the brilliant instructions from the tour book to the top view point of San Nicolas which looks over to Alhambra.

Alhambra

No friends of Lulu. 

The morning before we left, we tired our luck at getting some day tickets. We were't luck but we did get to wander round parts that didn't need a ticket. We definitley want to try and get back to Granda one day as there was so much more we could have seen.