Have camera will travel

Sept 11
Late start today didn’t get on the coach until 930. The breakfast place was Hammad house just like yesterday but it was a little quieter as we sat at the opposite end.
We made a short drive to Mijas and then got let loose for two hours. This is the place we were told by leather if we wanted some. Neither of us did. We got but really didn’t find anything that we were impressed about. They just finished their festival on the weekend so they were tearing down all the little carousels and that that they had up for the for the kids. But the decorations were still hanging on the street so there was colourful red orange and sometimes white look like paper flowers hanging across the streets. We wandered around through the maze of the little streets up-and-down and all around and then made our way back to the main square. This place is also famous for donkey ride so there was a bunch of donkeys lined up along the side of the road that you could rent and go for a ride on we didn’t. There was also buggy rides with doggies we didn’t do that either we just wandered around and looked at everything.
We stop for a cold drink at the first restaurant with scene when we got to the place and then decided that we would have something to eat so we had a vegetable sandwich. It was toasted like you do a grilled cheese sandwich but inside was a slice of white cheese lettuce tomato onion carrots corn and a slice of boiled egg. It was great, The vegetables were crisp and clean and fresh. Then we decided we should have dessert because it look like they had crème brûlée. It wasn’t but it tasted really good it was similar it was cold and I had a little crush on top but I don’t think it was fired sugar. We sat under the shade of the trees and looked at the valley below that spread out to the mediterranean.
There was a vendor toasting almonds and peanuts on the street. Of course I had to taste some and they were so good I ended up buying three little packages of them. They were still warm from the pot that he used to make them in. Who’s getting close to the time that we were leaving so we made a trip to the WC and then everybody sort of conglomerated together and we made our way down back down to the coach.
Another short drive about an hour and a half and we made a stop for lunch except for us it was just a coffee break because we already eaten lunch. Here at the stop we had another Fleurish I can’t remember the name of it but it was basically custard in a little sponge cake with a little crème brûlée fired topping. Again this was very good. Then a lot of the people decided before they got on the coach that they had to go take pictures of olives hanging on the trees. I was one of them I went down and took a couple of pictures of the rows of trees.
Back on the coach again and off to visit the Alhambra palace. It took us till 3 o’clock to make our way there through a lot of traffic. Our tour guide said he wasn’t getting antsy but I think he was because if you don’t get there on the time that your tour is supposed to be they deny you entry. We made it on time congregated around the two tour guides we had and then wandered off the word the palace. We had to break up into groups because they only allow groups of 30 people and we were 38 so half of the bus went one way and half of the bus went the other. And off we went for two hours wandering uphill and downhill and up and down bunch of staircases.
We walked around for two hours in 31° heat. There was two stops for the water closet and want to stop when somebody realize oh I don’t have my phone where did I put it. Then once we got back to the coach it was actually two people who said where is my phone and where did I put it and both of them found their phones.
The palace was kind of amazing to figure that they built that in the 14th and 15th centuries and it’s the moors and the Christians that built it, you’re not supposed to say the Muslims in the Christians built.
Once we all got on the coach it was a quick trip down into the centre of Granada and our hotel. We piled off the coach and into the hotel lined up and got our rooms and rushed up and just flopped ourselves on the bed. We are a little pooped and hot and tired.
After catching our second when we both had showers and cleaned up a bit and then went down to the bar to sit around and chat with some of our new mates and of course have a drink. We had our dining around evening tonight and most of us decided the dine around in the hotel.
We had three course meal and it was heaps of food. Which got to choose between five starters five main courses and five kinds of desserts. Which got Sandrea and they also brought some deep-fried fish ball around that nobody at our table really liked. The amount of food was amazing, the salad was huge and my starter was grilled vegetables and they tasted great. But it was a full plate. Then came the main course I had chicken and it look like it was the whole chicken breast flatten them about a quarter of an inch, filled half the plate. Then we had dessert apple pie and ice cream. The apple pie wasn’t like any apple pie I ever had, I had two little slices of Apple on the Filo crust with caramel ice cream caramel syrup and and raspberry syrup. The pastry was nice.
After all that we rolled ourselves outside on the street and walk down to the Square where there’s a big fountain everybody stood around it to pictures and then we wandered back to hotel and crashed we have an early morning tomorrow.