Granada - the Alhambra!

The next morning Isabel didn't have to go to work so we could both get up late, having breakfast together after which she took me to a service station on the way to Granada. It was already about 2:30pm when I got there but I thought, hitchhiking from service stations in Spain must be much easier than standing with your thumb or a sign on the street. But what I thought was wrong. It took me about two hours waiting time to find someone who could bring me next to Loja and who wanted to show me Caviar and Salmon production in Riofrio, but unfortunately we couldn't see any Salmon in the river there. From that service station he took me to I could easily find someone else to Granada, a man who worked in a public office in Huelva and whose family lived somewhere close to the Sierra Nevada, which was very beautiful to see while driving, later also the Alhambra, approaching to Granada. I crossed the city all by feet, passed the Cathedral and went to the Mirador San Nicolas to have a good view over the Alhambra. Then I went back to the city center to take a bus to Albolote where I found out the day before a service station on the highway was quite close, at which I arrived at about 11:45pm with the kind help of a friend over the Internet, completely different from what I planned. What were the problems? First, of course, I started too late from Malaga, but that was ok. Then it took too long to find someone for Granada which was my fault since I did ask only for Granada and not for cities on the way, which I did after almost two hours of waiting. Then I should have walked faster in Granada to get one earlier bus for Albolote, which came every hour only. Then I should have had a better description of how to find the way to the service station, probably a printed one, since there was no public city map, almost no street names' signs and the people living there, even taxi drivers did not know about the streets I asked them, the ones I noted to get to the service station. Finally, the station was very hard to find during the night so it took me more than one hour to walk different streets and ways back and forth until I reached it. There were many obstacles as if I was meant to reach it that late. Tomorrow I was sure to get on more easily. For now I wanted to recharge my mobile, write something and rest a bit in the restaurant nearby, El Torreon.

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