Another cold night and not a particularly early start, given yesterdays perambulations! But after cleaning up and servicing the van we decided to go back into Granada to try the city tour bus and also shopping for one or two bits and pieces.
Once again the local bus arrived on time (they're every 15mins) and deposited us in the city centre. We had got a leaflet yesterday so knew where to go, and managed to have a look into Cortes D'Ingles, a large chain department store, very like Debenhams in the UK. They didn't have what we were looking for however so continued to the tour bus stop. We purchased tickets from the nice lady who told us the bus would be 15-20mins. That's Spanish mins! Still we were quite comfortable sitting in the warm sunshine so no matter.
When the bus arrived we piled on - to find we were the only passengers! Never mind, once we'd sorted the commentary we settled down to enjoy the tour. Suffice it to say that it was not as good as others we've been on and would hesitate to recommend it, unless you were visiting the Alhambra when it would be a good way of incorporating the visit - the tickets are valid for 48 hours. Nonetheless we took a number of photos:
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| Roundabout Art - an old sugarbeet press |
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| Arabian-influenced villas are quite common |
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| Wide streets |
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| More roundabout art |
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| Modern street-lamps! |
Despite being wrapped up, it wasn't very warm on the top of the bus and we weren't sorry when we got off at the Cathedral. Despite an excellent view from the top of the Alhambra (see yesterdays photos) close up it was difficult to get a good general view:
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| Cathedral side door |
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| Front door? |
Not having had any lunch we wandered around the back streets and came to the Plaza Bib-Rambla, which had a small selection of cafes and restaurants. We chose one for a pizza, to discover we got a 10% discount by producing our tour bus tickets! Se we had another cup of coffee!
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| Cathedral peeking over the building tops |
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| Plaza Bib-Rambla |
Suitably refreshed we wandered on generally back towards the bus stop. We discovered that the Tourist Office had provided us with a map showing a number of walks around the city and we concluded that walking would be a much better way of seeing the city than the tour bus. But not all at once!
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| Town Hall |
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| Columbus presenting his plans to Queen Isabel |
We made our way back to the bus stop, stopping to buy a data sim card for our internet connection, and concluded that we liked Granada and will return. Of course at this time of year it is not crowded, which is how we like it, but in the summer it would no doubt be quite different.
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