Around Alhama

The time stamps I have set for Alhama time.

By the way the purple bits in italics are Mary's posts

24 May

The internet café owner didn’t want to know us. I guess he thought we might hack into his system and bring it down. So we did the cut and past which you have all read by now. Checked at the Tourist Office and discovered the tours were on Tuesdays and Thursdays

25 May

A few chores, shopping etc and off on the tour of Alhama. There were four of us -3  English speakers and one multi-lingual lady who I suspect was French. The guide from the Tourist office (whose name in Spanish means protector, i.e.protectora ) decided it was best that she deliver her spiel in English rather than have the three English speakers looking blank. Listening to the other two English Speakers speak in Spanish, my guess is it would probably be the Aussies who looked blank!   Protectora was really surprised when I told her we were Australian.  Quite interesting and I have put a few pics in the gallery. “The House of Inquisition” is apparently (according to historians) a misnomer and it was actually a chapel named for St Peter. However, it’s now a private house and the owner must be thrilled to have a heritage label outside declaring the place to be the Casa de La Inquisición.  It was interesting to see that our guide had as much trouble translating dates e.g.. 1810 as I have when trying to translate them into Spanish.

26 May

Our neighbours (James & Lisa) have very kindly strung an ethernet cable across the street from their house to where we are staying. This means we can do all our work offline and the just take the laptop up three floors and connect and (thanks to Gmail) all the emails in the outbox will be sent and it will also sync with Gmail online to download our Inbox as well. Similarly, preparing the blog posts on Word will then be a simple matter of copying and pasting.

Some pics have been added to the last post as well as being included in the gallery.