OK, the plan was go to to the Alhambra. That was the whole reason we flew to Granada. Once we got to Granada, I checked out the scene, and found out that Lonely Planet was right: indeed, you need tickets to get inside, and these tickets are pretty hard to come by at last-minute. The website sells them ahead of time, but by this point were sold out for the whole next 11 days. Damn! So, it appeared that gazing on it from below was going to be the closest we were going to come to it.