Saturday, September 22, 2012

Granada, Cordoba, Seville

I have decided to write my posts in two languages. In English and in Slovenian. The reason was that I have noticed that I have number of visitors who probably do not speak Slovenian. And Slovenian do not comment.
We are on the road again. This time we are traveling in  Spain. Actually this is substitute journey. Originally the plan was journey to Tibet, but this was cancelled. The news about cancellation reached us too late. Incompetent Slovenian agency "ARS LONGA" was trying to sell us another package. But we did not fall for that. It would be quite impossible to change complete vacation schedule planed one year in advance.
So we decided to go to Spain instead. Granada, Cordoba and Seville. I have booked everything  through the net. Flying out of Venice to Barcelona and than to Malaga. Low  cost carrier. We o  even had to get used to paying for our meals on board. Voeling operated flight. I wonder if they will tray to put the seats in two levels, one on the top of the other. That way they would double the number of the sardines they can squeeze in that sardine can they call Airbus. Well we have survived.
My greatest worries was the car . I have tried to make reservation for Ford focus or something similar with the Spanish based company "Goldcar" with very affordable prices, offering the best deal. On the arrival there was a two hours worth of cue in front of the rental office. But after little less then two hours I had a key to my Focus. This people must be doing something right, no other company had cue like them.
Driving to Granada was uneventful, until we reached Granada inner city. And then the nightmare begun.  My Garmin was assuming that I am doing the same stupid mistake over and over again and was routing me on the same one way street over and over again. Because of the some building project which was going on traffic patterns were changed completely. And this was driving all of us crazy. Eventually I have managed with final disobedience to guess the right direction and we got to the hotel.
This was very long day and I will finish now.

Odločil sem, da bom pisal moje objave v dveh jezikih. Razlog za to je da veliko obiskovalcev  ne govori slovenščine. Slovenci pa ne komentirajo.
Zopet potujemo, tokrat po Španiji. Pravzaprav je to nadomestno potovanje. Originalno sva bila namenjena v Tibet. To potovanje je bilo odpovedano, obvestilo o tem sva dobila tik pred zdajci. Nesposobna Slovenska agencija "Ars Longa" nam je poskusila prodati drugo potovanje. Seveda na to nisva padla, saj je dopust planiran eno leto v naprej praktično nemogoče na novo planirati.
Odločili smo se za Španijo. Granada, Cordoba, Sevilla. Vse rezerviram prek neta. Poletimo iz Venecije preko Barcelone v Malago. Nizko cenovni prevoznik. Celo obroke na letalu se naučiva plačati. Sem se pa spraševal, zakaj sedeže ne naložijo enega na drugega, tako bi zagotovo podvojili število sardin, ki jih lahko stlačijo v to konzervo, ki ji pravijo Airbus. V glavnem smo preživeli.
Najbolj me je skrbelo ali bom dobil v redu avto. Rezerviral sem si Ford Focusa pri Španski firmi Goldcar, ki je cenovno bila najbolj ugodna. Ob prihodu pa zagledam za dve uri dolgo vrsto pred pisarno prav te izposojevalnice.. Vendar po dveh urah odidem s ključi Ford focusa in  si mislim, morajo nekaj delati dobro, da so edini s tako vrsto pred okencem.
Vožnja do Grande brez presenečenj v Granadi pa nočna mora. Garmin je predpostavljal, da delam vedno znova isto neumno napako in me vedno preračunal v isto enosmerno ulico. Zaradi gradnje je prometni režim popolnoma spremenjen. To nas je vse pripeljalo do roba živčnega zloma. Končno mi je uspelo z dokončno neubogljivostjo zadeti pravo smer in prispeli smo v hotel.
Dan je bil dolg in tu bom končal.

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