Rediscovering Andalucia

I first visited Spain, Andalucia to be precise in September 2011. Our adventures included Tarifa, Vejer de la fronterra, Cadiz, Seville & Chipiona. We had a blast and were keen to had back. This didn't happen for us until March 2014 after we passed up a trip to Rome & Venice in Italy.

We had been tying with the idea of buying property in Spain after many episodes of Rick Stein's Spain and "A place in the sun". We particularly liked the idea of the Granada province after reading Chris Stewart's series about life in the Alpujarras.  

We did some research and found a few properties worth a look in  thee Baza region of the Granada province. We arrived into Malaga and drove straight to Lanjaron after reading about it again in Chris Stewart. Lanjaron is a lovely town and almost all the stores/restaurants we entered were Espanol only. We dined in a lovely quiet place where the only communication we had was for the waitress to tell us the wine we had chosen was 'agua'.

The next day saw us visit the town Orgiva. This was a lot bigger than Lanjaron but not our cup of tea. We had a bit of a poke about but decided to head off to Baza to meet with our rep who was to show us the properties. 

www.rusticom.co.uk are a great local company to the Baza region who have a variety of properties listed ranging from ruins to large farm houses. We were shown 1

property comprising of two properties which I fell in love with, unfortunately there was literally nothing else in the hamlet besides other houses. 

We checked in to a lovely hotel/bar/restaurant called Hotel Cascamorras. This was a great base and the staff were amazing. So much so that instead of moving on to our next destination we decided to stay on in Baza an extra night.

Next stop was Granada. This is a very cosmopolitan city, compared to those we had been visiting. We stayed in a little hotel run by the very lovely Jorge. Granada is unique in that its Tapas are usually complimentary so long as you purchase a drink. We visited a few bars and were provided with very generous portions of tapas so much so that we did not require an actual visit to a restaurant. A favourite was the Casa Lopez Correa. We also managed to visit the Alhambra which I highly recommend.

To be continued...