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Getting into Barcelona at about 9pm I was delighted to find everything still open (in fact most of it seemed to be just getting moving).

Spain '99

Nickjenkins
2003-11-20 11:41:17

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/>Mel : Hmmm... are those the chipirones ? or is it them ?

NJ : Not sure, never seen a sausage with eight legs before

Confusing a sausage with a crustacean can be the least of your problems. Lack of local language skills can promote incipient paranoia in visitors. You never quite know when the waiters, the doormen or the taxi drivers are being polite or sniggering behind their hands at you. Patience and a broad mind can help though, the little eight legged sausages were quite tasty.

From Valencia I went south again in search of better weather. I found some in Seville. Seville is a nice new open plan city and the weather during the day was near perfect.

In Seville we managed to see their cathedral (the largest in the world), the Moorish fortress and the Plaza Espanol. We also dined well on tapas, local ice cream and chocolate con churros. In Seville I got an invitation to go climbing in Malaga so we split up. The girls going off to Morocco and I east to Granada.

I had some time to kill so I decided to do a quick circuit of the south coast and end up in Malaga before the 25th. Grenada is a beautiful town and well worth the attention of anyone travelling in Spain. The town is nestled under the flank of the Sierra Nevada and dominated by its main tourist attractionthe Moorish palace of the Alhambra. The snow on the Sierra Nevada attracts a lot of foreign tourists to its ski slopes and there are plenty of facilities for visitors.

The Alhambra itself is beautiful. It is divided into the Alcazar (fortress), Generalife (summer palace and gardens) and the Palacio Real (royal Spainish palace). The three sections sit atop two arms of highest hill in Grenada and the views from the top, both of the town and the mountain, are spectacular.

After two nights in Grenada I went south east again towards the coast. My initial ...