Our one year anniversary is sneaking up on us in April, and I'm scrambling a bit to get our trip scheduled. Last night I booked flights to Barcelona April 5th and Madrid back home April 20th. It'll be our first time in Spain. So far I'm thinking to do Barcelona (4 nights), Madrid (2 nights), Seville (4 Nights), Granada (3 nights), back to Madrid (1 night) and we fly out in the late afternoon on the 20th. I've been looking at flights for about a week but other options were either too pricey, or it would be roundtrip to/from Barcelona which would've been logistically harder to return to, since I didn't realize how far Barcelona is from the other cities. I have until tonight to cancel the flights and book something else if I really need to.
So, would this itinerary work? We're trying not to bounce around a lot. I don't really love splitting up Madrid but then if we did Barcelona - Granada - Seville - Madrid then we'd have to take a flight from Barcelona to Granada and I'd have to check in my bag and just getting to the airport and doing all that seems like a hassle. We are not planning on renting a car and plan to train everywhere. We typically stick to trains between cities on all of our Europe trips. I also thought to take a train the morning of the 20th to Madrid, but the only train time that worked was 7am and it'd just be an incredibly long day(s) of traveling back home.
I also noticed the Feria de Sevilla will be happening April 14-20th and was worried about things being expensive/closed so I scheduled Seville the 12th-15th so not our entire time there is during the festival. Not sure if my thinking is accurate or not though?
Also wanted to ask if the time in each city is enough/too little? We are not art museum people but like seeing unique architecture, history, good food, good cafes. For the 4 night stays are there any good day trips we shouldn't miss? TIA, just a bit overwhelmed with all the logistics of when/how/where and getting it figured out within 3 months...