Meeting family in Spain
We traveled recently to southern Spain for a short vacation and to reconnect with our now 10 ½ – month old granddaughter. Our itinerary included a connecting flight in Cairo, but due to a 3-hour late departure from Uganda we missed the connection and were rerouted through Vienna. That made for a very long day, arriving at our hotel in Madrid at 1 am, 26 hours after leaving our house in Kampala! After a few hours of sleep we were up bright and early to meet Jessica, Christy, and granddaughter Lucy who arrived from Philadelphia at 8 am. It was a joyous and emotional reunion!
From Madrid we drove 5 ½ hours, including a lunch stop, south to Albuñuelas located at the end of a small road in the mountains between Granada and the Mediterranean coast. On the way we passed through plains, mountains, and what seemed like endless olive trees. Our rental house in Albuñuelas had a wonderful view of snow-capped mountains in the Sierra Nevada range. The quiet streets of Albuñuelas were a perfect place to relax, and the location was a good jumping off point for day trips to the coast and other nearby communities.
