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Published: October 19th 2009
I haven't seen any of the other wonders of the world so it was with great anticipation that I headed off with Gaynor to The Alhambra in Granada.
We started our day in the gardens of the Ayuntamiento de Granada ('Granada Town Hall'). Which apparently is only open when the council isn't in session so we were lucky to see it. Very early on we discovered quite a large group of peacocks. There were at...
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Kathy H
Fantastic ceilings
What marvellous buildings. I adore the incredibly intricate ceilings, especially the lovely woodwork ones. That was the kind of thing I had hoped to see in mosques in Egypt but we only saw one and it was nowhere near as elaborate. The gardens with their fountains are lovely, too. How many palaces are in the Alhambra? I didn't realise there was more than one. What a shame it got dark too soon.