Alarm Clock + 5:30am → Not happy + A Long Day

We wake up extremely too early today, we needed to catch a bus at 6:20 for an excursion to Granada. It wasn’t that bad, we just slept a few hours on the bus and arrived in Granada around 9:30. After a quick mini-tour by the guide, we ended up having a few hours of “free” time to explore until we were to meet back for our tour of the Alhambra Palace.

First things first…

Coffee and Churros! These things are at the top of the dough nut scale. Up there with beignets and of course your standard crispy creme. They fry up some bread, serve it to you along with a cup of warm chocolate sauce, then you dig your churro in the sauce, and enjoy its cholesterol filled goodness.

Second things second… (noone ever says that, so I figured I would)

A stroll through the market, much like any other market, a bunch of people all selling the same trinkity things for almost the same inflated prices. This one complete with your standard fare gypsies trying to con you out of whatever they can. The trick here is they “hand” you a twig of some sort, then tell you that you have to buy it. By “hand”, I mean they forcefully place it into your hand. They almost got Eli, but we arrived just in time to shoo them away.

third things…ok, nevermind that

With a bit more time to kill, we searched for something else to do before the big visit to the palace. I picked up a pamphlet from a TI (tourist information) and we were on our way to the Arabic Bath Al Andalus. This was a pretty amazing place, mainly because the sun was shining through it’s old school sky lights. We must have taken 100 pictures inside just trying to capture the beauty of the atmosphere inside. The price was also just right… Free. Gotta love that.

Continuing on tours of the great palaces of Europe, we board the bus for a quick jaunt of the mountain to the Alhambra Palace. History lesson here. Neat place, one creepy detail is that throughout the whole palace the walls are inscribed 9000 times with the words: “Only Allah is victorious”. One important part of Muslim architecture is that they use long reflecting pools to add to the already unique building structure. Of course, what palace would be complete without its amazing gardens to surround it, this one had just that. Unfortunately, we get separated from our tour group here (because it was actually 1 tour guide doing 2 groups, one in English and one in German). We ended up doing on own tour of the garden area and met our group back at the entrance for our departure back. Sleepy time on the bus again.

Back in Fuengirola…

Dinner @ an an Italian place on the beach. A “cute old man” (as per eli) was our waiter and he was very friendly, he actually ended up giving us all a free glass of wine after dinner. Then after we paid, a mini short of peach schnapps. Back to the hotel where we finished another bottle of wine, and watched the moon and the beach drift us into to our beds.

And now… a long overdo WTF:

Sorry for typing up another book….