Winter Time

The clock changed yesterday. The Summer 'daylight saving' time has now been reversed back by an hour to the normal standard 'Winter' time.

Came back to Holland last night. We reached home just after midnight. The flight from Granada to Brussels via Madrid took 4 hours. The drive back from Brussels airport was smooth - took one and half hours to reach home.

It has been an interesting trip. We stayed overnight on Saturday at Cordoba. The place is quieter at night than Granada and we would recommend anyone planning to go here to just go for a day trip. Day time though it is pretty crowded.

On our tour on Saturday, we walked along the old Muslim and Jewish quarters. We went to visit a former synagogue. It was quite interesting to know how various faiths co-existed in peace and harmony in the past. The is the last surviving synagogue building that was turned into a church during the Spanish re-conquest in the past.

Our guide also brought us to see a proper mosque located quite close to the Grand mosque. The mosque has been in used for 19 years now.

Our hotel is quite interesting. It is like an open museum. Inside they preserve an old building relic - some sort of ancient building foundation. In the middle of the hotel, one could also find a nice garden courtyard (middle photo). And right in front of the hotel led you to one of the door of the Grand Mosque.

We drove back to Granada prior to catching the flight back home. Our rental car, a Ford Focus, is really good value for money, and spacious as well. The 4-days rental, inclusive of everything, only costs 58 pounds. And it's brand new, only 10K on the clock. We took a different route to Granada this time, using a new motorway which led to Malaga before turning to Granada. The motorway is really superb, well built and wishes we have similar like this one back home. The 2 hours drive was just amazing. With the backdrop of mountains in the background, the lands around are as if there are covered with endless carpets of olive trees and other plantations. Every flat lands, slope and rolling hills are being used for the plantation all along the drive. The people here really knows how to make full use of their lands.