A Travel Blog
We were not looking forward to our trip to Portugal – though we were looking forward to Portugal itself – because: it would be the earliest start of our trip; we were told there’d be no reserved seats on the bus so we’d have to jostle like (and with) the Spanish for our seats; and … Read more
Another warm day in Seville, though we think the temperature only got to the mid 30°s C . Today was a free day, Intrepid-tour-style. That means the tour leader gives you some ideas of what to see or do, and you make your own choices. For most of us that was to visit the Alcazar … Read more
Before leaving Granada, we wanted to check out the sculpture of Queen Isabella with Christopher Columbus. It apparently commemorates not the approval given to Colombus to explore the New World, but his support of the edict to expel the Jews (in 1492). Oh dear! Whatever, the statue is an important part of Spanish history and … Read more
Our prime mission on our second day in Granada was of course the Alhambra. You don’t go to Granada and not see the Alhambra … but first we ventured out for breakfast and, not surprisingly, ran into a bunch of our tour group already enjoying their coffee and croissants (or whatever). Anyhow … it was … Read more
We met our tour group on the evening before we set off for Granada and were relieved – not that we really expected anything different – to find ourselves with a congenial group comprising four couples from Australia (including one, similarly aged to us, from Canberra), and four single women (two Australian, one Kiwi and … Read more