You had to walk around the edge of the courtyard. On the far side, there was another room and then an arch into a hallway. There was a nice view of the garden below.
This reminded me of the roof of the new Aquarium etc. in San Francisco.
Then there was a side exhibit. It was in nice rooms with a nice view!
Then we were spit out on a balcony across the top of a courtyard. It had a nice view of Albaicin. I'm still glad I went there. It felt like I was in someone's little town, not a big city, even though there were other toursists and it was literally steps from the city.
There were stairs to go down from the balcony. Then we got sent under the rooms we'd already seen to the garden we'd seen from above. To the side of the garden was a random room of solid brick arches. There really just didn't seem to be much else down there (except one view into the garden)! The garden itself was very carefully manicured and beautiful.
That was the end of the main palace. The tour sent you out into the gardens. There was a really beautiful building in the first bit you came to. It was on the edge of the hill with arched windows that looked across to Albaycin and a long green pond in front of it that reflected it nicely.
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From there, I accidentally followed a garden path back to the main gate. Oh no!!
I had to walk back up the main path to get back to the fortress part of La Alhambra, called Alcazaba. I passed a HILARIOUS mail drop box.
Here's the front gate of Alcazaba.
So you go in the gate and they send you almost immediately up some stairs to the top of the wall. It's like a lookout point. You can see the palace and a nice view of Albaycin.
Then they send you back to ground level and then up another set of stairs into the fort. You can go on another wall on the other side. Clearly, I did. It had an optimal view of the interior of the fort.
Then I went across the lower section of the fort and up its main tower. It didn't have tooooo many stairs. There was a bell and several flags at the top along with a view out over the rest of the city.
Next I went baaaaaaack to the beginning... again.
This time, I went to the left from outside the main gate, to a section called Generalife. It's supposed to be a farming community. There were some fields out there, but I didn't see any where for farmers to live! Also, it seemed there weren't ENOUGH fields to support more than 1 modern-day farmer. Oh well. They did have some nice gardens and another little palace!
After La Alhambra, I took the bus back into town. It dropped me off right at Plaza de Isabel Catolica, where I came from. I decided I should look for food for my dinner and my breakfast even though I was freezing and exhausted. Somehow, I’d managed to step in a disproportionately large number of puddles while looking at my camera and the cold and wet had come straight in through my shoes.
I found a restaurant on Gran Via de Colon, which is where the bus comes. It had paella that looked good. I ordered that and a Coke Lite. They brought me some sort of fishy dip and mini bread sticks and then a tiny pointy baguette. Umm paella? That came too. It turned out to be VERY fishy and almost dirty tasting. It also seemed more like rice than paella. Did you cook this in the appropriate pan? There were some men in reverend collars at the same restaurant having tea. We were close to the cathedral and it was siesta time when the cathedral is closed.
After that, I went across the street and got a chocolate pastry for my breakfast and a soda for my evening. It was barely 6, but I was ready to go home.
I called mom via skype. Then I booked my flights for the rest of my trip, including home. I’ll be back on the 24th. I went to bed late somehow even though I MEANT to go to bed early.
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