The Alhambra . ugh orsmooth, and mingling with all classes and conditions in a kindof vagabond companionship. It is the true way to travel inSpain. With such disposition and determination, what acountr\ is it for a traveller, where the most miserable inn is asfull of adventure as an enchanted castle, and every meal is initself an achievement ! Let others repine at the lack of turn-pike roads and sumptuous hotels, and all the elaborate comfortsof a country cultivated and civilised into tameness and common-place ; but give me the rude mountain scramble ; the roving,hap-hazard, wayfaring; the hal
The Alhambra . ugh orsmooth, and mingling with all classes and conditions in a kindof vagabond companionship. It is the true way to travel inSpain. With such disposition and determination, what acountr\ is it for a traveller, where the most miserable inn is asfull of adventure as an enchanted castle, and every meal is initself an achievement ! Let others repine at the lack of turn-pike roads and sumptuous hotels, and all the elaborate comfortsof a country cultivated and civilised into tameness and common-place ; but give me the rude mountain scramble ; the roving,hap-hazard, wayfaring; the half wild, yet frank and hospitablemanners, which impart such a true game-flavour to dear oldromantic Spain I Thus equipped and attended, we cantered out of FairSeville city at half-past six in the morning of a bright Mayday, in company with a lady and gentleman of our acquaintance, THE JOURNEY 15 who rode a few miles with us, in the Spanish mode of takingleave. Our route lay through old Alcala de Guadaira (Alcala. -X* ^,^K^i^^:0? m f ^-.
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