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• Day 9 Granada….. still

  May 28, 2019

  And what a lovely lovely town Granada is With plenty of aimless wandering (and beer) And more lunch  (of course....!) Which was nice.... And even The Alhambra being full (you REALLY need to book ahead) and the two best tapas bars in Granada BEING SHUT* (well: you need to check the date of the web...

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• Day 8 Granada….

  June 25, 2018

  And a short hop down past the biggest windmills in Windmill Land brought us to the heart of downtown Granada Parked up 2 minutes from the hotel..... then out for a late lunch Which turned out to be prawns..... prawns AND wine - what's NOT to love about Granada? Then up quite a steep hill…

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• Day 7 All alone….

  June 25, 2018

  And as always good things came to an end - leaving me and Olga alone in the High Alpujarras For breakfast.... which we've always been quite good at.... And an early night before the road to Granada Dimitri x  

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• Day 6 Hangovers….. to be blunt

  June 21, 2018

  Owwww..... i suspect everyone had a white russian head this morning So: we went to Pampaneira for lunch And listened to church bells and fireworks for AAAAAAGGGGGES and ages Which was very nice & i had chicken...... chicken and BEER! And in the evening Surfer Rosa made us all hamburgers and w...

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• Day 5 wedding bells in the high mountains

  June 21, 2018

  So I got to marry the gorgeous Dr Olga...... again The cat that got the cream*..... or White Russians to be accurate!** And my best friend in the world Officiated at the ceremony in the guise of His Dudeness...... which was splendid And there were birthday presents too All the way from the Camp N...

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• Day 4…. stag night

  June 11, 2018

  and Balcon De Pitres..... HIGHLY recommended..... should you find yourselves in the high alpujarras and salva bought firewood and made us feel VERY at home then the clans began to gather: my lovely SIL and my gorgeous daughter and her BF and i may have had another small beer as you do dimitri

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• DAY 3 – just like coming home

  June 10, 2018

  What a lovely ride,,, we made it up through the Alpujarras and got to Pitres just in time.... for wine o'clock...! and then to be HIGHLY entertained by the sheep going home (which is a quick time movie this site cannae handle..... apparently!) so here's a fotie of The Doctor sculling beer.... a s...

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• DAY 2

  June 10, 2018

  The nice man arrived with our GS1200 Beemer and after breakfast we headed off for San Jose in the Cabo de Gata National Park which turned out to be VERRRI nice double plus good.... with the added bonus of The Doctor's sister and her charming man being there too (by bizarre coincidence!) which led...

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• Holidays and high days….

  June 10, 2018

  DAY 0 ended sitting on the wall in the Barrio with Uncle Bob - drinking wine - watching the world go by - just like the old days DAY 1 and our wee plane EI-STA rolls up to pick us up from I Blew The Rest Airpost And day 1 ended high above malaga..... watching…

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