The gang heads off down El Cappuchino
A Walk up a Hill, Paella on the Beach and Granada, Andalusia, Spain - 19th April 2018
We have a quieter day, which starts out with a bit of a hike up into the hills behind the "Cappuchinos" apartments, and the reward of a good view out over Nerja and the Mediterranean Sea. Then, after a couple of hours by the pool, we get the bus down into the town again and visit the heaving Chiringuito de Ayo paella place on Burriana beach front. The next day we roam a bit further afield and head up to Granada for a poke about. When we get there, we discover that the centre of the city - where we're parked - is about to be sealed off thanks to an imminent Easter parade, and so we have to leave a bit earlier than planned. All of which means we actually end up spending more time eating in cafés than we do actually exploring and stuff, but "them's the breaks". Anyway, we do get to look around the cathedral and a bit of the city, which is especially memorable for its incredibly squeaky roads, which are so noisy that at first we think that the hire car has broken down in some really exotic way. However, everyone else's car is doing it everywhere too, so we eventually come to terms with it.
next album: An Easter Parade, Nerja, Andalusia, Spain - 21st April 2019
previous album: The Caves of Nerja, and Frigiliana, Andalusia, Spain - 18th April 2019
Fred runs about in the hills
Fred's got a big stick
Fred's stick contains a million ants
Ever upwards, past a random moped
Spanish snail
Harry looks at a rock
Fred and Harry in the rocks
We pause for a few minutes
The view over Nerja
Isobel and the boys have a drink
The Capistrano village, and the sea
Fred looks out
Isobel looks around
The local swimming pool and the 'Superamericado'
Up in the hills
We head down again
Back near the apartments
We hang out by the swiming pool for a bit
Harry's got a hoody on his head
The palm trees by the supermarket
It's time for paella down on the beach
A truly massive paellera
It's quite an operation at Chiringuito de Ayo
The dude tends to his paella
It's a bit chaotic
One of the omnipresent rug dudes sets up his pitch
The charcoal supply for the paellera
Isobel unfurls our beach blanket
The boys look at ice cream
The boys are quite happy to score ice cream again
Grass-covered parasols
Ice cream on the promenade
Isobel strides around
A nice sunset over the sea
Mini pokes around the apartment again
Evening view over El Capistrano
Isobel hangs around by a Jamón Ibérico market stall
The Mercado San Agustín
Harry looks at his prawns and eggs suspiciously
A whole tonne of shellfish
Isobel under a painted mural
Graffitoed shutters
Some dudes rush past with big flower bushes in pots
On the streets of Granada
Near the cathedral there's a herbs'n'spices stall
A nice lantern in a shop
Stickers all over some street furniture
Some kind of trough, fed by three water spouts
Grand apartment block by the cathedral
Some dude waits to get in
Angels look down from on high
The street by the cathedral
Ornate columns in the cathedral
Fred looks bored already after only five minutes
Chequerboard cathedral floor
A very ornate church organ
A nice domed ceiling
Mediaeval music
Isobel roams around
The boys want to buy stuff from the shop again
Under the orange trees
More shutter art
We roam the graffitoed lanes of Granada
Fun graffiti on a fruit-shop shutter
The Plaza de la Romanilla
Back on the lanes, looking up to the cathedral
The foothills of the Sierra Nevada
More mountains and empty roads
The gang waits in the tiny hire car
Fred and Harry in the Terrazo la Parra
The boys are playing pool
Harry cues up
More pool action
Fred and Harry in the pool room
We end up playing with an Irish family
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The gang heads off down El Cappuchino
The gang heads off down El Cappuchino
Fred runs about in the hills
Fred's got a big stick
Fred's stick contains a million ants
Ever upwards, past a random moped
Spanish snail
Harry looks at a rock
Fred and Harry in the rocks
We pause for a few minutes
The view over Nerja
Isobel and the boys have a drink
The Capistrano village, and the sea
Fred looks out
Isobel looks around
The local swimming pool and the 'Superamericado'
Up in the hills
We head down again
Back near the apartments
We hang out by the swiming pool for a bit
Harry's got a hoody on his head
The palm trees by the supermarket
It's time for paella down on the beach
A truly massive paellera
It's quite an operation at Chiringuito de Ayo
The dude tends to his paella
It's a bit chaotic
One of the omnipresent rug dudes sets up his pitch
The charcoal supply for the paellera
Isobel unfurls our beach blanket
The boys look at ice cream
The boys are quite happy to score ice cream again
Grass-covered parasols
Ice cream on the promenade
Isobel strides around
A nice sunset over the sea
Mini pokes around the apartment again
Evening view over El Capistrano
Isobel hangs around by a Jamón Ibérico market stall
The Mercado San Agustín
Harry looks at his prawns and eggs suspiciously
A whole tonne of shellfish
Isobel under a painted mural
Graffitoed shutters
Some dudes rush past with big flower bushes in pots
On the streets of Granada
Near the cathedral there's a herbs'n'spices stall
A nice lantern in a shop
Stickers all over some street furniture
Some kind of trough, fed by three water spouts
Grand apartment block by the cathedral
Some dude waits to get in
Angels look down from on high
The street by the cathedral
Ornate columns in the cathedral
Fred looks bored already after only five minutes
Chequerboard cathedral floor
A very ornate church organ
A nice domed ceiling
Mediaeval music
Isobel roams around
The boys want to buy stuff from the shop again
Under the orange trees
More shutter art
We roam the graffitoed lanes of Granada
Fun graffiti on a fruit-shop shutter
The Plaza de la Romanilla
Back on the lanes, looking up to the cathedral
The foothills of the Sierra Nevada
More mountains and empty roads
The gang waits in the tiny hire car
Fred and Harry in the Terrazo la Parra
The boys are playing pool
Harry cues up
More pool action
Fred and Harry in the pool room
We end up playing with an Irish family