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| Barry Simpson and Ben |
One of the really fine things about this trip to Andalusia is that we have not had to worry about anything. Becoming a "client" of Barry Simpson, of YourAndalusia.com made the trip so easy. He managed the hotel reservations, made recommendations for restaurants, drove us hundreds of kilometers (along excellent roads and narrow city streets), and kept up a friendly running commentary of all we were seeing. An ex-pat Scot, he also has a delightful accent.
Besides the Alhambra yesterday, we spent a major part of the morning at the birthplace of Federico Garcia-Lorca, who was born near Granada in 1898 in the village of Fuente Vaqueros, became an influence playwright and poet in the 1920s and was murdered by a Falangist squad during the Civil War in 1936. His body has never been found. While he only lived in the house we saw until he was seven, it has been restored by his younger sister and includes a very fine small museum on the cultural scene of Spain in the interwar period.
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| Churros and Chocolate, local delicacy |
In Granada, we explored several barrios, which included the magnificent cathedral, a perfume museum, the Moroccan shopping lane and a fountain in one of the major plazas that portrayed androgynous grotesques.
We completed our trip to Granada with a night of flamenco at the Jardines (Har-dinn-eth) de Zoraya, on a hillside above the city. In the small world category, we were seated next to a couple from Washington, who live about a mile from us and have mutual friends!Now to the AVE train to Madrid from Malaga.
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