España (Spain) 2008
Madrid, Lorca, Cazorla, Granada, Salobreña
Thursday July 24 through Saturday August 2
Stu & I went to Spain in late July and early August of 2008. I took along a GPS to log our trip. Once we returned home, I converted the GPS logs into a single, large KML file for display here. There were a few "issues," however. The GPS' shortcomings included the frequent loss of signal in cities, due to narrow streets, tall buildings, and the lack of high sensitivity (it's a Garmin eTrex Vista Cx, not the HCx, unfortunately). As a result, there are many missing pieces of our trail while in town. The tracks contain travel by car, on foot, and, in rare cases, on public transportation (in most cases, the GPS was unable to track us on public transit). I have gone through the GPS tracks and removed glaring errors, except for a few where the correction would actually be worse than the error.
Below the KML links, I've included a description of each day, plus a link to the (mostly) unedited GPX files, plus Google Maps visualization.
Important note: The links below show each day's travels as violet lines on a background map. If you wish to view the tracks in Google Earth, right-click/download the files you want here (except the "View" link):
- KML file of photos
- KML file of tracks (our actual travel through Spain) (View whole trip on a map.)
- KML file of waypoints (significant places, such as hotels, etc.)
- Overview—Map of Spain with the provinces we visited highlighted in yellow. GPS tracks are in red, provincial borders are in blue, and regional and national boundaries are in black.
- The KML-based map in Google Maps - Descriptions of daily travels follow:
- July 24, 2008: Madrid to Albacete to Totana (GPX, view map)
- July 25, 2008: Totana to — and around — Lorca (tracks exclude the walks to/from the Lorca Rock Festival) (GPX, view map)
- July 26, 2008: Around Lorca (tracks exclude the walks to/from the Lorca Rock Festival) (GPX, view map)
- July 27, 2008: Lorca to Tíscar to Cazorla (GPX, view map)
- July 28, 2008:Cazorla and "Parque Natural de la Sierra de Cazorla, Segura, y las Villas" (GPX, view map)
- July 29, 2008: Cazorla to Úbeda to Granada) (GPX, view map)
- July 30, 2008: Granada, including the latter parts of our tour of The Alhambra (GPX, view map)
- July 31, 2008: Granada to Salobreña and back (Note: There was road construction along the way, which is why we apparently left the main highway for a while) (GPX, view map)
- August 1, 2008: Around Granada (GPX, view map)
- August 2, 2008: Granada to Madrid and around Madrid (GPX, view map)
