Saturday, 25 March 2017

Tuesday 21st March 2017: Granada



Tour of Musea de San Juan de Dios.  Very, very good.  Had an English-speaking Art History student taking the two of us around the whole place and explaining much.  She was probably amused by my more than average interest in it.  The building was a house of a benefactor of the man John and took him in after he caught pneumonia helping rescue someone from drowning.  The room and bed where he stayed and then died are preserved in the museum.  Many other pieces of art and items to be seen, including the original portrait made a few years after his death.  Interesting to learn, me having been an employee of St John of God Health Care these last almost 20 years.  A good guy and understandable that a following grew around his example after his death.

 

Spent much time trying unsuccessfully to buy a Granada Card, eventually booked a ticket to L’Alhambra palace on the 09:00 Spanish tour!  Lucky I’d learned those five or six phrases.

 

More eating out … not too successful yet finding a really good place.  Local lager is refreshing and cheap.  Café con leche is good – think they make it with a double shot of good coffee and then a little milk added.

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