Photo trip to Spain

Hi,
Been a bit lax in writing this blog lately, been a bit busy and a bit lazy, no real excuse.
I have not long come back from a photo trip with a crowd of mates from our local camera club.
We went to the area in Spain known as La Alpujarras up in the Sierra Nevada mountains.
It is about 1 1/2 hours drive from Granada and about 2 hours from Malaga airport. We stayed a small village in the mountains called Mecina. This area is very rural and as far away from the typical "Costas" as you would like. It is a very quiet area with not a lot of traffic, but the scenery is fantastic. There is something there for everyone. For the landscape photographer it is stunning if you can just catch the right light. The small villages offer a lot of material for the photographer who likes the more intimate type of photo, old white houses dating back over 500 years and all the villages painted white. In the village we stayed in there was only one Bar/restaurant and one vegetarian restaurant. Both were excellent although some service in the bar was a bit slow to say he least, the food was good. The Jamon (ham) starter was fab and the pizzas were very tasty.
The veggie restaurant was really good, it is run by a French man, Jean-Claude and although not all of our group are dead keen on vegetables, they all agreed that the flavours were excellent.
The one true vegetarian in our group was in veggie heaven.

There are other local towns that are a bit more touristy but not overun with them, and we enjoyed salads and beer sitting in the sun listening to local musicians in the town square.

We then all went down to Granada for the last day, some of our group were staying one extra day so that they could go into the Alhambra the next morning. It is very difficult to get photos in the Alhambra because there are so many tourists about, even going in first thing it was very busy. So that was my last wee trip. Now we have to think were we go next year.
See Ya
Gerry