Granada via Valencia

We left Barcelona on Wednesday morning, driving 4 hours to Valencia, where we stopped overnight. We had dinner in the hotel and poor Matt ordered the kids serving of italian pasta. The waiter came back and said what sauce, tomato? Matt had a stunned look on his face and Cameron said Si [yes]. After the waiter had gone, Matt said he hoped it was bolognaise tomato. It wasn't. The noodles were covered in tomato sauce [straight from a bottle]. Lucky he wasn't very hungry.

We had a nice buffet breakfast in the morning and set off Thursday morning for Granada, another 5 1/2 hour drive. This time though, I took some photos along the way.

 
And we had a play with the features on the camera.

whilst Cameron drove again.

We got to our apartment in Granada, were met by our agent, Jaime and set up the apartment. Delighted to find that we had decent wifi again [you've probably noticed the last few blogs are written well after our travels, just trying to catch up. Cam's also using the tablet to book and plan Morocco, and occasionally we have to let Matt have it for some school work. Matt has our phone for internet access, and spends most of the time watching you tube]. 

We went and did some shopping, then came back and cooked tea. Cam went into the bathroom and found there was no hot water. We rang Jaime, he came back and we moved into the apartment downstairs. Apartment downstairs was exactly the same as upstairs, so that was all right.

Friday morning Cameron was going to charge the camera battery, when he dropped the charger onto the marble floor. Of course it broke, so we had to find another one. 

After researching where to find one on the internet, we set off through the wet streets of Granada. [We have done so well with the weather, especially if you've been watching the European weather. When we were in Lyon, we saw Lourdes, in the bottom of France was flooded, and here we see there was a huge flash flood in Southern Spain at the end of September]. 

I bought an umbrella from one of the street vendors on the way, Cameron did the navigating and we walked up and down the streets [sometimes the same street] until we got to a camera shop. That shop didn't have the right charger, but I did ask for directions and we went back up the street [the same street as before] around the corner and found El Corte Inglese [just across from where we were when we turned around before]. They had the right charger, another 30 euros [but it actually charged the old battery that we'd bricked in Paris as well, so now we have 2 decent batteries]. 

After all that walking we needed lunch. So on the way to Burger King [Matt's choice] we saw a place that sold pizza and pasta and stopped there instead [Matt and I had lasagne, Cam had pizza] We then went to see the Cathedral and Royal Chapel, but it was 1.35 and siesta break time. [only open 10-1.30 and 4-6].

So we wandered through the old Silk markets instead and then went back to the apartment. The plan was to go out for tea, but it was still wet, so Cam and I walked to the shop and got some chicken and pasta for dinner instead.

Friday night, where our apartment is, is very noisy. We went to bed at 11 and it was continually noisy until sometime after 5 this morning. I snuck out of bed this morning to do some blogging, only to discover it was 8.50am, Cameron was already on the tablet and Matt had the phone, so I read another book on the kindle until I got the tablet. [Now it's 12.30, updated the blog; time for lunch and then don the wet weather gear to go to Alhambra this afternoon].