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Published: November 12th 2007
view from the mill
The beautiful view from the balcony of the house we stayed in the Alpujarra mountainsHola from Spain!
Hope all is well back at home. Here is our latest update! After leaving Italy we travelled very quickly through France and arrived on the South coast of Spain. Stopped over in Loret de Mar on the Costa Brava (like Blackpool) and then tried to stopover in Benidorm (James wanted some fish and chips!) unbelievably ALL the campsites were FULL! Full of Brits and Germans on longstays, eventually we found a place in between Benidorm and Alicante (we discovered why the sites fill up most offer 60% plus discounts of stays over 28 days.)
We then had a very long and winding drive through the Sierra Nevada to the Alpujarra mountains were we have stayed in an old mill house for the last 8 days. A beautiful place in a lovely area which we would like to return to. We had one drama when Konny got stuck in the carpark at the Mill, every attempt to move her up only moved her nearer to the steep drop off the carpark! We rang our AA number in the U.K not really thinking they would be able to do anything (we were in a very remote area) but
Alhambra Palace
overlooks Granada, entry is limited to fixed number of tickets per day - we have booked for Wednesday! within a couple of hours they had arranged for a couple of Spanish blokes to pull us up the hill (I had been hoping for a guy in a yellow AA van).
It was nice to have tv for a week to catch up on Coronation Street but not so nice to get bombarded with the usual Christmas adverts on British tv (no a new sofa delivered in time for Christmas isn't on my list of priorities thanks anyway DFS). If Angela and Helen B are reading you will be horrified to know that the hypermarkets over here are just as keen to make you buy xmas crap - stuff appeared just after Halloween - blah!
We are now staying in Granada, which we have visited once and really liked. We have booked tickets to visit the Alhambra and have found a decent campsite a short bus ride from the centre. Wi fi connection 1 euro a day! A bit different from the 8 euros an hour we have paid in the past. We have also actually formulated some kind of route for the next 3 and a half weeks before we are due in Portugal for our
grafitti Granada
James favourite pastime taking photos of the local grafitti, must admit this is quite impressive house stay - Cordoba, Toledo, Madrid, Sergovia, Salamanca then to Northern Portugal and make our way back along the coast via Lisbon.
Got to go, James is pestering for the computer. He actually got to play with some British kids before! Very unusual!
Take care all,
adios,
Catherine, Ian, James and Tillyxx
p.s hope you like the pictures, i never know which ones to put on.
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Gus Granada
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The rider, the horse and the balls
Believe or not, this naked rider and his circus horse is supposed to represent the "fragility and unstability of life" -I hope this translation is not as bizarre as the others you found, otherwise add it to your list-. In other words: Enjoy life, enjoy the present because you can be happy one moment, sad the next. Or in other words: Carpe Diem. The clock includes an inscription saying: "Feliz quien ve sus horas en dorado presente" (Happy those who watch their hours in golden present"). Carpe Diem