{"id":1842,"date":"2016-10-10T16:35:04","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T20:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web1prod.sunflowerit.ca\/wordpress\/auto-draft\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T15:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T19:08:09","slug":"adios-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sunflowerit.ca\/travel\/other-trips\/europe2016\/trips-europe\/adios-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"Adi\u00f3s Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

2016.10.04 (Nerja – Granada) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After an early breakfast at another caf\u00e9, we packed our luggages and walked back to the main road to catch our bus to Granada. We were pleasantly surprised that the bus was starting its journey from Nerja \u2013 hence it was empty and waiting for us to board. The two and half hour bus ride was very pleasant, namely along the Costa del Sol – a 150km stretch of coast where all the Spanish and foreign tourists visit for some sun. During the bus ride, I discovered while reading our travel guide that visitors to Granada should book their tickets to visit the Alhambra<\/a>, the top tourist attraction of Granada, a few days or weeks ahead of their visit. I guessed \u201cjust-in-time\u201d travel planning did not always work out. With the help of the wifi on the bus, we tried to reserve tickets but discovered that none of them were available until the end of the month. We remained hopeful that our hotel would be able to help us out. The bus station in Granada was in the suburb but it was very easy to catch a city bus to the downtown area where we found our booked hotel. The hotel desk agent suggested that they might have been able to book some tickets for the Alhambra for us but after checking their own website, they conceded that we were on our own for the tickets. They suggested that we could possibly get tickets for a night visit of either the palace or the gardens. We left our luggages at the front desk and took a local mini bus for an exciting drive to the Alhambra ticket office. We managed to purchase tickets for a 10pm visit of the Generalife (gardens) on the same day. We had supper at a Chinese restaurant as it opened an hour earlier than the rest of the other restaurants. We took the mini-bus back to the Alhambra for our night visit of the gardens. The Generalife visit was peaceful and even romantic. We caught one of the last mini-bus back to town center.<\/p>\n\n\n