Well, we were up and early to get to the Alhambra tour ticket office by 9:30am to get our entrance tickets for 10am! Again, had an excellent breakfast at the hotel – nothing like a freshly made omelette! We got our tickets and our audio guide on our cell phones and off we went to see the Alhambra buildings during the day this time. We skipped Generalife as we saw it yesterday – our tour time of the Nasrid Palace was at 11:30am and we had to walk from the top of the Alhambra down to where the buildings were located still. Here are our daytime pictures (some might be a repeat…) for your enjoyment! Just to re-orient you, here is the layout again…
Back to hotel, pack and on our way! Good thing for these 4pm checkouts I get!
The drive to Murcia was uneventful and quite beautiful! We covered lots of different terrain from “Grand Canyon” like views from when we came down from the other side of the small mountain that Granada is up against, to prairies which were very dry to a green belt and then down into a valley that looked like it was a conglomeration of a lot of cities that had just spread out. That we took the highway around the side of which was interesting as there was a historic site on the side of one of the hills and I guess they did not want to disturb it but needed the highway so instead they tunneled under it! I am surprised that the tunnelling did not do some vibration damage however I leave that type of thing up to the engineers – the know best! We are just passing through Murcia on our way to Valencia – it seems to be a fairly big city and the AC Hotel is VERY nice – we were upgraded to a suite again! It is nice to be able to spread out, even if it is only for the night. Also we have now mastered Spanish TV’s – did you know there is a setting in TV’s so that you can show a program in it’s native language? Andrew of course figured that one out! So we are having fun in the evening watching some older shows like Big Bang Theory that are not on TV anymore.
