We finished our tour in Granada, the expected highlight of the holiday; we were not disappointed. The most popular tourist attraction in Spain, if not Europe, is the Alhambra (pictured), the fortress-palace of the Moorish Kings. It takes about 3 hours to walk round the gardens and palaces, very tiring in the heat but fascinating. Less well-known is the superb drive up to the snow-capped Sierra Nevadas, the road stopping just above the snow line in May. The simple pleasures are often the best and in this case it was stopping part way up at a small bar for two beers and being served a free taster of delicious sausages in a spicy sauce. It was so good that we returned for a full lunch the next day. There was so much meat that we could not eat it all.
The Hesperia Granada Hotel, approached via the narrowest alley our hired Toyota Aygo could negotiate, did not deserve its 4 star rating. The dining room was for breakfast only and there was no bar, the only public area being the lobby. There was no view from the smallish room but it did have a table and two chairs and the bed was actually the requested double, not two singles pushed together as in all the others. There was a parking garage but it caused us problems due to lack of headroom and, initially, difficulty in finding the lift to the hotel.
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