We will end up arriving in Barcelona, after a trip from Newark to Madrid and a Vueling flight from Madrid to Barcelona. We are spending five days there, with a Viatour 1/2 day Barcelona tour that includes La Familia Sagrada, Parc Guell and other locales. We are staying at and apartment hotel in Eixample for our stay there.
Then we are heading to Granada - the train station there appears to be closed for work, so we will take the AVE to Cordoba, and 48 minutes later get on a bus to Granada - and I understand the train and bus stations are very close to each other. On May 26 we will see the Alhambra in the afternoon - our tickets for the Palace are at 7:00 pm so we will arrive and see what we see of the rest of it before that.
I know that Rick is a bit dismissive of the Spanish coast, but from Granada we are going to Almuñécar for a couple of nights - it is a bit east of Nerja. From there we go spend three days in Estepona and then meet friends from the US in Seville. After a few days there we head to Portugal, working our way from the Algarve to Lisbon and Porto (and a riverboat tour of the Douro. Then it is on to Madrid for three nights and back to our home in Mérida, Yucatán, México after a detour to California for some wine tasting with friends.
It will be our first time to Spain and we are looking forward to a good trip.
Almuñécar