GPS Is Great. . .Most Of The Time

GPS got us to Granada easily.  GPS even got us to the Granada train station to drop off the rental car easily.

But it let us down bigly when it came time to walking the 1.2 miles from the train station to our VRBO apartment.

The first mistake was me asking Carol if she wanted to cab or walk after the drive.  The second mistake was Carol saying "Ah, let's walk!"  The third mistake is that GPS had no idea where the address of our apartment actually is.

It would have helped if the nice lady who rented us the apartment had provided more specific direction.  The only information she provided is that there are two doors on our street marked 22 -- the building her apartment is in, and another random door marked "22" that it turns out isn't close to the apartment.

Later, she told me that we should have put Calle San Juan de los Reyes 24 (Europeans put the building number after the street) because GPS will work.  Sigh.

Granada is built on steep hills.  Many of the "streets" are actually steps.  Steep steps.  And when they aren't steps, it's just steep streets that cars can barely fit on.  

The first part of the walk from the train station was pleasant enough, not overly steep, along parks and streets with plenty of tree cover.  

Then we hit the steeps.  And the worst part is, we could have avoided most of the problem if only GPS was taking us to the wrong street.  Yup, not only did it take us to the wrong number, but the wrong street.  And getting to the wrong street required many stairs, dodging dog poop that the owners didn't clean up, and then the confusion of being higher on the hill than we should have been.  And remember, we were pulling our luggage up these hills.

Eventually we found it after many messages back and forth with the landlady. 

To add insult to injury, the apartment was at the top of the building, and the stairs are very narrow.

That said, once we got up to the top and saw our view of the Alhambra from rooftop terrace, the rest of the stay was great.