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Speechless in Granada

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More days off, more cheap airline tix, blah, blah, blah. But that’s where the blah blah ends. I was rejoined by my traveling sidekick, Shawn after a 2 month absence and for a change as of late, I was actually prepared (read: pre-booked tickets in my grubby little hands) for this latest adventure. Well, at least as prepared as anyone can be for something as majestic as Granada’s Alhambra. I knew that this Moorish fort turned palace on a hilltop would be grand, but I had no idea just how “holy crap, this is amazing” grand it was going to be. I spent close to five hours wandering around the complex, torn between open-mouthed gaping and the futile desire to try to capture it all on camera. I watched as fellow traveler’s attempted the same balancing act, some armed with professional looking cameras attached to lenses the size of medieval cannons, others waving around their cell phone cams, even some with disposable cardboard cameras (which, really, why bother? If you are over the age of fiv