Today's start time was a little better as we did not need to be ready in the Princess theatre until7:45. Everything went prety well and the bus was loaded and ready to go. Then we just sat! After we pulled out the bus stopped and 7 “late” passengers came “walking” to the bus like of course you would wait for us! The bus ride was suppose to be 2 hours but we were already 30 minutes late. On our way all vehicles on the highway were pulled over to the rest stop and the police were going through all the cars. One women was being swabbed! We simply got off the bus but the police talked to the bus driver. We had no idea what was going on. Exciting to say the least.
Granada was the location of the Moor empire that lasted for 800 years so there was plenty of indications in the city itself. It was very disappointing that we did not have a chance to visit the Alhambra complex which I thought we would do. Instead most of the tour concentrated on the Catholic history of the area and of Spain. We visited a chapel that was built specifically for the king and queen who had the biggest impact on Spain in the 15th century. The tour guide went into minute detail about all the paintings and paintings on the altar. Interesting but way too much detail. Next we went into the very large cathedral that took over 100 years to construct. We have been in many European churches and this was on the same level of the best. After that we did a walking tour of the oldest (Moor) part of the city. Lunch followed and then we were on our way back to Malaga. In all it was a very short visit.
We rated the tour guide as #3 out of the 3 tours that we took. On the walking tour she just keep walking (quickly) with some people finding it hard to keep up. After visiting the church one of the people on the tour pointed had to point out that we were missing 1 person. She did not seem to be concerned. The woman was quickly found bit it could have been a disaster. So we were not impressed with her.
We did manage to get ready in time to have a drink with people we have met on this cruise. We had a full table (6) for dinner and then we took in the production show. It is brand new and was very futuristic. It was probably the best of the 3 new shows that were designed for this new Princess ship.
Tomorrow we are in Cartagena, a port that we have been to before. No touring, just some things we can see on our own.
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