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| Pictures of Sierra Nevada |
Yesterday, for the first time, we went to Sierra Nevada. Well, actually its the second...kind off. When we first moved here, we went out exploring loads and started to drive up to Sierra Nevada. My OH was driving up, but suffers pretty badly from vertigo...I was pregnant, hungry, dying for a pee and basically, not a nice drive up. We got to a point where all we saw was sky and both felt pretty ill and had to turn around and go back down.
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| Pictures of Sierra Nevada Town |
However, yesterday, after being more used to the windy roads, we got to the top...whoopee. What we realized was, the first time, when we tried, we really were just about 5 minutes from the top, when we turned back around. I was amazed. It all felt really surreal, like I was in a dream. I´m, we, are not skiers, never done it in our lives before. It was full of people of all nationalities and ages, some in really cool ski and snowboarding wear and others like us, just dressed normal, seeing what its all about.
We just wanted to see it, and maybe in a few weeks we will go back and get some ski lessons. We just wandered around and ended up queuing for about half an hour for tickets for the toboggan, and then had to queue again to go on it. It was a ridiculous amount of time to queue for a ride no longer than 4 minutes. But we had to try something whilst there. There seemed to be lots of different areas for kids which was great. The lots of different slopes etc.
Lots of choice of restaurants. We sat at one called Tia Maria (I think), just had a sandwich but the food looked really good and next time will definitely go back. It was the side overlooking all the mountains and ski slopes.
Advice
If you are a regular Sierra Nevada goer, I would welcome your comments. Best places to stay, eat. Best ski schools to go to etc. Please leave comments below.
Getting to Sierra Nevada from Marbella
We always take the Toll Road. We went on the new big of road to Granada (as you get closer to Malaga). It really took quite a bit of time off the normal journey. We just kept following the signs for Granada and the suddenly there was a small sign saying "Sierra Nevada". We did miss it the first time, so wasted 15 minutes driving back. Going there took us 2.5 hours. On the way home, it really was 2 hours door to door.