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You are so right about the summer heat in Andalusia! And yes, you have warned us before! However, since I was already in Malaga, I could not resist visiting Sevilla, Cordoba, and Granada! All the cities are truly special! I wish I had visited Cadiz, too! ( I was in Spain for 5 weeks). Next time!! Thank you for your wonderful and very helpful videos, Tony.
my train journey across Andalucia in April 1993 as a 22 year old man has stayed with me to this day... Granada and Cordoba my favourites. The countryside though was so remote and peaceful
Wow what a dream trip that would be. Thank you for the wonderful video. I wonder if by the time I got home my brain would be completely scrambled as to what I actually saw on the trip haha.❤❤
Ola Tony! I can already tell that my trip to your beautiful part of the world in November will require multi trips. I appreciate you sharing with us your knowledge. It helps a lot for planning. My great grandmother made a custard pie that she called Boogee Pie. It was a simple recipe very similar to the Pastel de Nata. I'm gonna try & make them in little muffin tins & dream of when I can eat the real thing! 😊 - Michell from beautiful Colorado
Tony....ty for the video very informative as I am planning to visit Seville, Granada, Cordoba and Rhonda plus 5 towns with Villanueva de xxxxxx north of Malaga around May 2025.i have followed your videos and ty again very informative..
Ronda is a must but not as part of a rail trip through Andalusia. We visit it on our Road Trip through the Pueblos Blancos. The train won't take you anywhere near Frigiliana and Cartagena is not in Andalusia. This is not about what's interesting but about those places that fit within a railway trip.
Thanks Tony. Great video. From Barcelona we are going to try Tarragona, Madrid, Cadiz, Seville, Granada, Malaga by train in that order, over about two weeks. We will already be in Barcelona hence the departure point and order. If you see any problems please let me know!
One morning in Granada, I took the no. 9 bus up to San Miguel Alto and then walked down through the Albaicin. I'm not sure that the views are always better from the highest points, but it was fun to be up there with no other tourists, just some joggers and mountain-bikers. On the way up, I noticed that the bus goes right past the Mirador de San Cristobal and that you can see snowy peaks behind the Alhambra from there, so that could be another starting point for a walk through the Albaicin. Also, I'm very glad that I went up to the Cuevas de Sacromonte. There's a bus that stops in the vicinity, but you have to walk a good bit uphill from there so I figured I might as well walk the whole way (even though it was already a too hot for my comfort on mid-April). On my way up the narrow road, I encountered a bus going down confronting a car going up. The car had to back down (just a gentle slope) to a place where there was enough room for two vehicles, and a few pedestrians had to wait for it all to be worked out. I suppose that's a regular occurrence.
I thought I might take the bus to the Abadia and then walk back to the Cuevas, but I was running short on time. I covered a lot of ground on foot in two days and could easily have filled more time there.
Indeed! If people were aware of the mind-blowing number of people dying due to heat waves in Spain they would take the heat more seriously. Admittedly, most casualties are people with previous health issues, but it's a very serious matter anyway.
Terrific video, Tony! Thanks for the itinerary and suggestions. We will be in Andalucía in June. Two challenges we’ve experienced so far is getting train tickets between Malaga and Grenada (limited times and days - we gave up and rented a car instead) and getting tickets to the Alhambra (the website has been glitchy and it seems tickets are released for sale only a month before … plus they sell out quickly. Our solution is to go with a guide). If you have any tips to do this trip more effectively, we would appreciate any advice!
Thanks, Ashley. The tickets for the regional trains (as opposed to high-speed trains) are only released one or two months in advance, but there are many trains every day connecting all the cities. As for the Alhambra, tickets go on sale one year in advance, right now you can book tickets for April 2025! The only website where you should buy your tickets is the official one here tickets.alhambra-patronato.es
Hi Tony. We are big fans of your fantastic videos! We're visiting Andalusia in October, and are finding all trains "sold out" on Renfe/Trainline. We're having a very hard time securing point-to-point public transportation (train/bus). We are starting in Seville (we're coming from Faro), then onto Cadiz and the other cities in this video. Any suggestions?
@@ROADTRIPSpainandPortugal Thank you so much, Tony. This is helpful! We were so confused as to why train/bus tickets weren't available for our dates later this year 🤔🤷♂️......we were searching too soon. We'll keep checking back.
Tony’s videos are the best I have come across for travel! If you are going to a Spain, I cannot recommend this series more. I have a question. We are touring Andalucía and our route is Madrid to Cordoba to Seville. We scheduled 4 days in Cordoba and are thinking of taking a day trip to Granada to see the Alhambra. Which is better, taking the train or renting a car?
I just commented last week about having to create an itinerary like this because our tour operator one was cancelled - I am happy to say I did a great job and will be hitting all of your destinations (thanks to all your previous videos!! 5 Stars!!)!! Question: on our last day, we will be coming from Malaga to Madrid to catch our flight the following morning - do you recommend staying near the airport or should we stay near Puerto del Sol again? We will take a taxi/uber to the airport so we don’t have to worry about navigating the metro. Thanks!
Thanks, Elizabeth. Since you are planning on taking a taxi/Uber, we would definitely stay in the centre of Madrid, much more fun than the area around the airport. All the best!
Hi, we would need to create a new and lengthier itinerary to fit Ronda in. Easiest would be to add more day to the trip and face Ronda as a return bus trip from Seville.
hi thanks for an amazing video. i have a question: next week i will be able to visit andalusia but i only have one night to stay. which city do you recommend for seeing the beauty of andalusia? im so curious about it.
Great video again so are the cordoba and Granada train stains far from the center . Taxi are required? Or can l take a bus? Also the cray machines at those stations are inside the rail station where you platform is indicated on the screen?
In Cordoba, I stayed at a place midway between the train station and the old center, and it was easily walkable. In Granada, I stayed near the cathedral, and I walked to the train station to catch a 7 a.m. train. There is a bus that goes that route. If you arrive to Granada by bus (as I did from Seville), you definitely need to take a bus -- or the tram/metro if you're staying somewhere near a stop.
It all depends on the size and weight of your luggage and on the specific location of your accommodation. You can walk, take the public transport or grabar a taxi. What would "cray machines" be?
@@lucieteal7201 in Cordoba they are in the upper level of the station, before you go down to your platform. In Granada they are at the platform level and you'll go through them before you embark on your train.
Hola Tony. I was looking for transportation from Seville to Cadiz (round trip) for the first week of May and I couldn't find any train or bus options available online, what can we do?
Yes, but that would be a different trip. To visit the Pueblos Blancos by bus you will need to double the time needed to do it by car. And you won't be able to reach some of the places we visit on our Pueblos Blancos road trip.
Hi Tony, I have been watching your videos and they are great! We are coming to Spain and Portugal this summer. We are landing in Madrid and renting a car to circle the country. We could first go to south to Andalusia end of the June or we could go to first Porto & Lisbon and then beginning of the July go to Andalusia. What would you recommend? Our plan is Madrid, Toledo, Salamanca, Porto, Lisbon ( would you recommend Sintra?), Seville, Gibraltar, Cordoba, Granada, Valencia, and Barcelona. We will have 17 days, starting June 22nd. I would really appreciate if you could answer my questions and recommendations 😊@ROADTRIPSpainandPortugal
Hi Janel, we intend to create a consultancy service to help with queries like yours, but so far it is at a planning stage. In the meantime, the following video is a good starting point for any planning: th-cam.com/video/GkgrYc89s_o/w-d-xo.html
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🚅 we purchase our high-speed train tickets here prf.hn/l/dlOx2lN
🏨 we book our hotels here www.booking.com/?aid=359492
🎟 we book our attractions in Barcelona here bcnshop.barcelonaturisme.com/shopv3/es/?o=h&w=3876-1444
🚶🏻 we book our attractions elsewhere in Spain and in Portugal here www.civitatis.com/pt/?aid=2167
📱here we buy our e-SIMs with a 5% discount esim.holafly.com/es/?ref=m2m3zwr&discount=TONYCECI&
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Thank you, dear Yara!
For me, Andalusia is the most interesting part of Spain! It’s a great tip that this can be done on the train. Great video. Gracias!
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You are so right about the summer heat in Andalusia! And yes, you have warned us before! However, since I was already in Malaga, I could not resist visiting Sevilla, Cordoba, and Granada! All the cities are truly special! I wish I had visited Cadiz, too! ( I was in Spain for 5 weeks). Next time!! Thank you for your wonderful and very helpful videos, Tony.
Thank you, Francine, make sure you visit Cádiz next time!
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my train journey across Andalucia in April 1993 as a 22 year old man has stayed with me to this day... Granada and Cordoba my favourites. The countryside though was so remote and peaceful
Wow what a dream trip that would be. Thank you for the wonderful video. I wonder if by the time I got home my brain would be completely scrambled as to what I actually saw on the trip haha.❤❤
So many incredible things to see in one trip indeed! But that's Spain for you!
Muchas gracias por el vídeo muy interesante. Saludos de Italia
Un saludo para ti también.
Ola Tony! I can already tell that my trip to your beautiful part of the world in November will require multi trips. I appreciate you sharing with us your knowledge. It helps a lot for planning. My great grandmother made a custard pie that she called Boogee Pie. It was a simple recipe very similar to the Pastel de Nata. I'm gonna try & make them in little muffin tins & dream of when I can eat the real thing! 😊 - Michell from beautiful Colorado
Hope you'll have a wonderful stay in Spain!
Putting together a trip to Spain for Oct of this year. This may be the perfect itinerary! Thanks for a great vid!
Hope you'll have a great trip!
Just discovered your videos and love them!
Delighted to hear that.
Excellent video - very informative. Thanks very much!
Our pleasure!
Thank you- super helpful
Our pleasure!
Thanks!
Thanks, Stephen.
Tony....ty for the video very informative as I am planning to visit Seville, Granada, Cordoba and Rhonda plus 5 towns with Villanueva de xxxxxx north of Malaga around May 2025.i have followed your videos and ty again very informative..
Thank you, Ray!
No visit to Ronda? That's a must on my list. Frigiliana looks really interesting too. Cartagena looks nice too but too far away I assume.
Ronda is a must but not as part of a rail trip through Andalusia. We visit it on our Road Trip through the Pueblos Blancos. The train won't take you anywhere near Frigiliana and Cartagena is not in Andalusia. This is not about what's interesting but about those places that fit within a railway trip.
Thanks Tony. Great video. From Barcelona we are going to try Tarragona, Madrid, Cadiz, Seville, Granada, Malaga by train in that order, over about two weeks. We will already be in Barcelona hence the departure point and order. If you see any problems please let me know!
Thank you! The main issue is that you haven't included Córdoba. There might be a reason for that absence, we don't know. All the best.
One morning in Granada, I took the no. 9 bus up to San Miguel Alto and then walked down through the Albaicin. I'm not sure that the views are always better from the highest points, but it was fun to be up there with no other tourists, just some joggers and mountain-bikers. On the way up, I noticed that the bus goes right past the Mirador de San Cristobal and that you can see snowy peaks behind the Alhambra from there, so that could be another starting point for a walk through the Albaicin.
Also, I'm very glad that I went up to the Cuevas de Sacromonte. There's a bus that stops in the vicinity, but you have to walk a good bit uphill from there so I figured I might as well walk the whole way (even though it was already a too hot for my comfort on mid-April). On my way up the narrow road, I encountered a bus going down confronting a car going up. The car had to back down (just a gentle slope) to a place where there was enough room for two vehicles, and a few pedestrians had to wait for it all to be worked out. I suppose that's a regular occurrence.
Thanks, Ermengard. Very few people reach the Abadía del Sacromonte either, at the very end of the neighborhood.
I thought I might take the bus to the Abadia and then walk back to the Cuevas, but I was running short on time. I covered a lot of ground on foot in two days and could easily have filled more time there.
Thanks for this! I’ll be in Madrid and Malaga this mid September, hopefully I’ll miss some of the extreme heat 🥵.
We hope so too, the signs for 2024 are ominous.
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The summer heat is no joke. Seville nearly killed us one trip...and that was in September!
Indeed! If people were aware of the mind-blowing number of people dying due to heat waves in Spain they would take the heat more seriously. Admittedly, most casualties are people with previous health issues, but it's a very serious matter anyway.
Terrific video, Tony! Thanks for the itinerary and suggestions. We will be in Andalucía in June. Two challenges we’ve experienced so far is getting train tickets between Malaga and Grenada (limited times and days - we gave up and rented a car instead) and getting tickets to the Alhambra (the website has been glitchy and it seems tickets are released for sale only a month before … plus they sell out quickly. Our solution is to go with a guide). If you have any tips to do this trip more effectively, we would appreciate any advice!
Thanks, Ashley. The tickets for the regional trains (as opposed to high-speed trains) are only released one or two months in advance, but there are many trains every day connecting all the cities. As for the Alhambra, tickets go on sale one year in advance, right now you can book tickets for April 2025! The only website where you should buy your tickets is the official one here tickets.alhambra-patronato.es
@@ROADTRIPSpainandPortugal That's so helpful - thank you!! This is a good reminder to check with you before buying any travel in Portugal and Spain!
Hi Tony. We are big fans of your fantastic videos! We're visiting Andalusia in October, and are finding all trains "sold out" on Renfe/Trainline. We're having a very hard time securing point-to-point public transportation (train/bus). We are starting in Seville (we're coming from Faro), then onto Cadiz and the other cities in this video. Any suggestions?
Hello there! Have a look at this th-cam.com/users/shortswmKDTtNRV8c It applies to bus travel too.
@@ROADTRIPSpainandPortugal Thank you so much, Tony. This is helpful! We were so confused as to why train/bus tickets weren't available for our dates later this year 🤔🤷♂️......we were searching too soon. We'll keep checking back.
Thanks
Our pleasure!
Tony’s videos are the best I have come across for travel! If you are going to a Spain, I cannot recommend this series more. I have a question. We are touring Andalucía and our route is Madrid to Cordoba to Seville. We scheduled 4 days in Cordoba and are thinking of taking a day trip to Granada to see the Alhambra. Which is better, taking the train or renting a car?
🙋🏻♂️Thank you, Cindy! Question registered for the next Q&A session ✅
I just commented last week about having to create an itinerary like this because our tour operator one was cancelled - I am happy to say I did a great job and will be hitting all of your destinations (thanks to all your previous videos!! 5 Stars!!)!!
Question: on our last day, we will be coming from Malaga to Madrid to catch our flight the following morning - do you recommend staying near the airport or should we stay near Puerto del Sol again? We will take a taxi/uber to the airport so we don’t have to worry about navigating the metro. Thanks!
Thanks, Elizabeth. Since you are planning on taking a taxi/Uber, we would definitely stay in the centre of Madrid, much more fun than the area around the airport. All the best!
Hi Tony and Cecilia. What would be the best way to incorporate Ronda into this wonderful itinerary?
Hi, we would need to create a new and lengthier itinerary to fit Ronda in. Easiest would be to add more day to the trip and face Ronda as a return bus trip from Seville.
@@ROADTRIPSpainandPortugal Thank you. 😊 (Yes, i should have mentioned that we will have 18 days in Andalusia 😊).
hi thanks for an amazing video. i have a question: next week i will be able to visit andalusia but i only have one night to stay. which city do you recommend for seeing the beauty of andalusia? im so curious about it.
Hi Melo, if you want an honest reply, for one night, we wouldn't waste our time and money getting to Andalusia. It makes no sense. Choose Córdoba.
Great video again so are the cordoba and Granada train stains far from the center . Taxi are required? Or can l take a bus? Also the cray machines at those stations are inside the rail station where you platform is indicated on the screen?
In Cordoba, I stayed at a place midway between the train station and the old center, and it was easily walkable. In Granada, I stayed near the cathedral, and I walked to the train station to catch a 7 a.m. train. There is a bus that goes that route. If you arrive to Granada by bus (as I did from Seville), you definitely need to take a bus -- or the tram/metro if you're staying somewhere near a stop.
It all depends on the size and weight of your luggage and on the specific location of your accommodation. You can walk, take the public transport or grabar a taxi. What would "cray machines" be?
Sorry x-ray machines inside the stations in cordoba and Granada . Are the machines inside the platform where the trains leave?
@@lucieteal7201 in Cordoba they are in the upper level of the station, before you go down to your platform. In Granada they are at the platform level and you'll go through them before you embark on your train.
Hello! Do you have any information on Ibiza and Palma de Mallorca? Thank you!
Not yet.
Hola Tony. I was looking for transportation from Seville to Cadiz (round trip) for the first week of May and I couldn't find any train or bus options available online, what can we do?
Wait. See th-cam.com/users/shortswmKDTtNRV8c
I plan a train trip to Andalusia in sept 2025
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It is possible to add a few Pueblos Blancos by bus on this trip?
Yes, but that would be a different trip. To visit the Pueblos Blancos by bus you will need to double the time needed to do it by car. And you won't be able to reach some of the places we visit on our Pueblos Blancos road trip.
Hi Tony, what cities in Spain do you recommend to visit during the months of June and July?
Hi, we would avoid Andalusia altogether during July. In June, depending on the weather, the full itinerary can be carried out.
Hi Tony, I have been watching your videos and they are great! We are coming to Spain and Portugal this summer. We are landing in Madrid and renting a car to circle the country. We could first go to south to Andalusia end of the June or we could go to first Porto & Lisbon and then beginning of the July go to Andalusia. What would you recommend? Our plan is Madrid, Toledo, Salamanca, Porto, Lisbon ( would you recommend Sintra?), Seville, Gibraltar, Cordoba, Granada, Valencia, and Barcelona. We will have 17 days, starting June 22nd. I would really appreciate if you could answer my questions and recommendations 😊@ROADTRIPSpainandPortugal
Hi Janel, we intend to create a consultancy service to help with queries like yours, but so far it is at a planning stage.
In the meantime, the following video is a good starting point for any planning: th-cam.com/video/GkgrYc89s_o/w-d-xo.html