Een Espine

It all started to go wrong when our flight was cancelled

thanks to the Spainish strike. We quickly rebooked Easyjet to Toulouse,
having already investigated rail connections from an earlier version of the holiday to Barcelona. Toulouse was small and lovely and incorporated free entry to a contemporary art gallery

and a trip to Carcassonne.

Train booked Barcelona, via Narbonne and Perpignan, with the second leg on of the trip on the famous Spanish Talgo, which has two articulated wheels per coach (helps change the rail guage from 4'8" in France,to 5'6" in Spain. VERY short coaches). Then there was Barcelona which is huge and spectacular

Two days there, then night train to Granada, where friends collected us and onto Salobrena via the Alhambra.

Time spent where the last of the Moors ruled until 1492 (apart from the poor buggers who were chucked out a 100 years later) in the Alpujarra

 A mile high and remote, last refuge of the 500 year old migration.

And nothing went wrong apart from the cancelled flight and delays and crap service on the plane back from Malaga.