Our one night trip was obviously no where near enough time. We just wanted to see it on our way through to the south of Spain. It was beautiful and exciting in the late afternoon and evening. We ate, shopped for shoes for Donnie’s poor little toe, and wandered the streets with just about every…
After looking up at it for a day, we finally got to see the Alhambra in all its glory. It took some climbing (I mean serious hill and stair climbing, that it turned out we didn’t have to do because Google Maps is not as good as you think it is, and Steve didn’t think…
It was a bit awkward, switching from a train to a bus for the last leg of the trip, and the bus, dear ones, was very tight – I mean, I’m above average in height for a woman and my knees may be bruised. It got exciting when the lady in front of me reclined…
Madrid has squeezed every waking hour out of me. Hence, the one day delay in posting to the blog. The first night after we arrived, I left Steve sleeping and walked up to the Plaza Mayor, just to see it at night, watch the Paseo, and reconnoiter for the shoe shop I wanted to visit…
Yesterday, we scouted the next day’s trip to the Alicante railroad station answer questions and wandered down to the beach to say goodbye. Who doesn’t need to have their photo taken with a cow at the rail station? There are a few wide dirt paths near the water in Alicante, but the majority seem to…
It was a herculean effort, but we climbed almost all the way (well, much of the way) up to the highest ancient castle in Alicante today. Originally, the castle appears to have been built as a Moorish dwelling in the 9th century, but was captured in the 13th century by the Spanish king and reconstructed…
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