3:00pm - in my hotel for a little siesta. Arrived by train from ronda around 11. Train ride was lined with about 10 million olive trees. Room wasn't ready so left my bag and set out to find the covered food market, where I bought some olives. Did Rick Steves's old town walking tour and went in the royal chapel where Ferdinand and Isabella are buried. Lots of gypsy beggar-types all over the place, especially these ladies who think they can give you a branch of rosemary and you'll give them money? Oh, ok.
Waking tour ends at the bottom of the hilly albaicin quarter, which I'll visit tomorrow but had lunch of chicken couscous at Azafran. Wandered back and printed my Alhambra ticket for tomorrow at the bookstore in town and got a gelato before checking in to the hotel.
11pm- phew, long afternoon and evening! Just before 4 I went out and first saw the massive cathedral that has walls so thick it was freezing inside despite being over 80 out. Then walked up to the monastery of the jeronimos, which was so peaceful.
Walked back to the center of town and found the couple streets that have Moroccan stuff and tea houses. It's like being in another world. Had a juice and baklava before heading to plaza nueva and grabbing a mini bus up to the famous viewpoint to wait a few hours for sunset. Had a drink up there to kill time and did a lot of people watching while watching the Alhambra change as the sun went down. Gorgeous.
Caught the minibus back down and got a light dinner of a stuffed baked potato, which seems to be popular and on a lot of menus here.
Not sure when I'll get today's pictures up since I have an early start tomorrow at the Alhambra but I'll get them up soon!
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Told ya there would be lots of olive trees! Yummmmmmm!
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