Arriving in the sun

I had no preconceptions of Spain, Ive always wanted to go to Seville because of Arturo Perezs the seville communion that paints the most atmospheric winding town of Seville, but that wasn't the destination,

I was in Granada at the last minute because of Hannah my best friends latest love trauma, all I can say is THANKS to her ex cos we all had a wild time!

The first stop was the Alhambra palace one word, breathtaking
I've been to the Taj Mahal and although I hate to compare this was far and beyond...

The moorish palace was built in the 1300/1400's (don't quote me!) and is composed of the most beautiful winding courtyards and fabulously and meticulously well kept gardens.
Each door way and arch is fantastically carved and plastered with intricate islamic and moorish patterns.
It made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up and tears prickled my eyes, what a beautiful place.

Me and my friends dubbed this the good luck holiday because we just seemed to land on our feet wherever we went although it might have had something to do with our unknockable optimistic outlook!

From Granada we rented a car and here's where our luck started, for the same price we were supposed to be getting a three door no air con rubbish Opal we were upgraded, for no reason! to a huuuuge 5 door full air con monster! what a treat!

So we set off to the coast and here would begin my gentle directioning and persuading away from the Costa del sol :p errrr!!!

we arrived at a small town in Nerja where we wandered around for a little to try and find a hostel (my print offs from the internet had been spurned!) but once we realised it would take a while we decided to try this one hostel I had found on the web and here we go again, landed on our feet! 10 min from the beach this cool little hostel with bar playing wicked music owned by english (lovely lovely) Julian who promptly informed us it would be a bit of a squeeze but he could fit us in AND the weekend was a MASSIVE BEACH FESTIVAL, needless to say we had a shower and headed straight out and got swiftly hammered and headed to the beach, what a night!

There was music and fires and dancing on the beach and chilled out people and wow...what could follow this?