Posts in Tag: granada
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Los Isletas & Granada – Welcome to Nicaragua
In my last post I gave an overview of my experience in Nicaragua travelling with Adventures Abroad ace guide Victor Romagnoli on his custom designed tour of Central America. Despite being a police state and the second poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, my overall impression of Nicaragua and its people was very favourable. We […]
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Alhambra in Granada- Visiting the Nasrid Palaces
We’ve been in Granada, Spain for two full days now and we’ve yet to visit the Alhambra Spain. We’ve looked at it at night from above sitting on the third floor patio of our apartment in the Albaicin. And we’ve looked at it from below, walking up the Carrera del Darro. This morning we are […]
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Alhambra Palace – Tips for Enjoying Your Visit
In my last post Alison and I finished up our walk around Granada and I promised that the next one would take us to the Alhambra Palace. I’m going to renege a bit on that promise by first putting up this post on how to prepare for and get the most out of a visit to […]
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Granada – Explore It on Foot Part II
In the previous post I told readers why renting an audio tour of Granada Spain was, in my opinion, probably the best way to explore the city on foot over a two day period. In that post we got as far as the Capilla Real and the tombs of Ferdinand and Isabella. In this post we’ll […]
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Granada Spain – Why It’s Best to Explore It on Foot
We’ve been in Granada Spain for just over twenty-four hours, all of which we’ve spent residing in or exploring the ancient Moorish district known as the Albaicin. It’s been a very pleasant eye opener, but now it’s time to literally come down from the mountain (well hill) and visit the centre of this wonderful city. I’m one of those […]
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Albaicin – Exploring Granada’s World Heritage Site
The Albaicin In a previous post I described how Alison and I, almost on a whim, ended up in a beautiful three story apartment in the Albaicin area of Granada, Spain. Well now that we are settled in and I’ve found the closest place to buy wine, cheese, bread, olives and sausage in that order of […]
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Albaicin Granada – Living in the Neighbourhood
In the previous post I described the serendipitous discussion with two clients that led us to drop everything and get on a plane to Spain to stay in an apartment in the Albaicin Granada neighbourhood. Although we had a serious glitch at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris, we did get to Granada that evening […]