I will post the Granada pictures sometime this weekend, but here is a first taste.

This is my first try at a panorama, using Canon PhotoStitch [a software that came with my camera]. I took this at the Mirador de San Nicolas in Granada. It is the Alhambra with the Sierra Nevada in the background and the town of Granada to the right.

You can see the big version here.

By the way, if you have any advice on how to make the stitching disappear, please let me know. [I've already tried to make them less visible, but they're still there.]

And happy 4th of July to all my American readers!

You can find the first to reviews of Sevilla and Córdoba here and here. This is another scheduled posting and I should be on the way home from my cousin’s wedding when this gets posted.

I got to Málaga on Wednesday quite late, so that night I didn’t really do much. I ended up having dinner with two Dutch guys at the hostels. They had cooked too much food, so they asked if I wanted to eat with them. It was actually quite good and very nice to meet the people at the hostel.

On Thursday, I went to see the Cathedral, and then ran some errands [going to the bank, buying new SD memory cards for my camera because I knew else I would run out of space in Granada]. I ended up taking quite a long nap in the evening after taking a walk along the beach [which was just a few minutes from the hostel]. I had a cold so I tried to rest more during my stay in Málaga. It worked out quite nicely as there was not that much to see in Málaga anyway.

That night I watched the Germany - Portugal soccer game on TV with a bunch of people at the hostel, and I was the only one there who was supporting Germany. Al the others were supporting Portugal even though none of them was actually Portuguese. That made it even better that we won! I ended up getting a free drink from the barkeeper too! Sweet! After the game, I went running along the beach which was really nice. There is actually a running route on the beach and the sand is not as soft so it is good for running.

On Friday, I went to Nerja with a Kiwi girl I met at the hostel, and we had a really great day there. We first went to see the cave which was just breathtaking. I don’t think the pictures can even capture how amazing it was, it really makes you aware of how amazing nature is.

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