More Spain!

We woke up in Granada the next day and headed towards La Alhambra! Now the Alhambra was built by the Moors(who were Muslim) and then taken over by the Catholics and then taken over again by some Moroccans. So it is a palace that has some Arabic/Muslim architecture as well as catholic influence. It is one of the main draws of Granada.

We arrived there at 1pm rearing to get in...
However when we purchased our ticket from the automatic ticket booth, it said that there were only tickets available for 2-6pm. Currently it was 12:45. We purchased the tickets anyways and tried to go in. The ticket scanner guy scanned our tickets and his device returned with a strange beep. "You are too early," he said. So this HUGE palace has specific times when you can go in. We saw a huge party of 8-10 people exiting the place so I pointed that out and asked him again if we could go in since its 2 of us and 10 of them leaving and he again said no. There was a free area of the palace grounds that we could go to until it was 2pm, so we headed there and had some lunch. But overall their ticketing is the dumbest thing I have ever seen.
We took a few pictures....
And then it was 2pm and we headed in. Overall though I was thoroughly disappointed. The Alhambra had some nice gardens....And some nice architecture....
But it really was not worth waiting for. So we left after 1 hour and headed to Baza, Spain.

Along the way, I noticed that the main crop that was grown in Spain is olives....
They were everywhere. Now the location we were going to was a farm of a guy that my buddy is friends with. Now it was not much of a farm, just some acreage with some horses, turkeys, ducks, geese, chickens, dogs, and cats.

We arrived in Baza....
After going to dinner that night, we returned to them farm. Before walking to the guest house we were warned to watch out for the geese and the turkeys because they bite. It was pitch black with no lights as we trekked towards the guest house. All I had for light was my digital camera which I would take pictures of the ground ahead with the flash lighting the way. All of a sudden we were startled by the gobbling of the turkeys! We heard them walking closer. Terrified I took a quick picture....We quickly started to run towards the house away from the turkeys. Once we got up to unlock the door we heard a hissing. I quickly took another picture.....It was the geese! They had been waiting for us to return and started to charge us. I grabbed a broom and was able to keep them away while we opened the door and got inside.

The next day we lazied around town and hung out on the farm. I took some pictures of the animals....The horse....The dangerous yet beautiful turkeys....The rooster....Oh and the geese that like to hiss, bite, and attack. You can see them chasing after me as I take the picture....We also went to the grocery store where you pull a basket on two wheels around by a long handle....
Here was the guesthouse where we stayed....
And some random guy was burning stuff on the side of the road. Supposedly this is normal....
And every night in the guest house there was this huge gecko that was on the wall....
Anyways after a few days on the farm it was time to leave to go back to Manchester. However there were some hot springs in Baza that we wanted to check out that morning....
After the hot springs, which were located on the side of this beautiful lake, we headed back to Malaga airport to fly back to Manchester.

On a side note, my Spanish, which I had not used in many years came out very well and it helped us to get around Spain. I was proud that I was still able to use and remember it.

Next post is about our activities in and around Manchester...