Granada Road Trip
After spending our first month in Spain bouncing between two different cities and four different apartments, our family was in no mood to travel once we finally settled town in our own place in Fuengirola. We enjoyed settling into a weekly routine in our new city and only took a couple small day trips to nearby Mijas Pueblo. As the calendar turned to December, we were ready for a weekend adventure. One of Becky's old friends from a study abroad program in college lives in Granada, which is one of the most visited cities in Spain and is only a couple of hours from Fuengirola. The city also is home to the impressive Alhambra, one of the most visited tourist attractions in Europe, and in the shadows of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. All of those factors combined to make Granada the perfect place for our first side trip in Spain. Fortunately, I had gained some experience driving to the food bank in Malaga as part of my weekly volunteer activities for a local charity. Otherwise, I do