Plaza Apartments Granada Granada Province

Thanksgiving...Spanish style

... the hotel, watched the movie (quite funny) and headed to bed early again in anticipation of Torrey and Mom's early arrival.
Just as we had expected, Mom and Torrey arrived at the hotel shortly after 9am and after they took a brief nap we headed out for the day to see the Alhambra. Unfortunately it rained most of the morning and afternoon but regardless the visit to the historic site was still fun (although quite wet). It ended up talking over an hour to figure out ...

Granada, Andalusia, Spain and Canary Islands warrmb7

The Alhambra

... style="">mosaics everywhere

rooms with arched ceilings with thousands of sculptures in the ceiling

Ceilings representing the 7 levels of heaven in Muslim Culture

The Fountain of Lions

The Grand Pool reflecting the main tower

If you ever get to the south of Spain, do not miss the Alhambra. We found it to be a very long day, but one we that will be a lasting memory of our trip.

Granada, Andalusia, Spain and Canary Islands jennyandpaul2

To the Alhambra...

... tapas... wonderful. After a few of these, we caught the bus to Bobadilla, which is a 10min walk to the campsite, and conveniently has a typical Spanish (loud men, even louder women serving) bar, where we continued to consume beer and tapas; 4 rounds later, we had spend just Euros 7 per person and felt sated not just Alhambra (the local beer, very good) but the variety of hearty tapas. We walked back to camp for a well earned sleep.

Granada, Andalusia, Spain lymandannabelle

Granada

... good. After that we walked to another tapas bar more in the historic center and it was about six fifty and my friend got a glass of wine, I got a 'jarra' of beer and our tapas was two bagel sandwiches, pasta, and fries. Pretty awesome. During the evening I went with the group to "a grand surprise", a flamenco show. It was alright but it felt very artificial. It was a group of Americans and a group of Japanese. That was the only audience. After ...

Granada, Andalusia, Spain and Canary Islands skivail89

Iberian Tour - day 1 and 2

... is such a different country. Some of the group went to the Moorish bath, but I had planned to wander through the old town. unfortunately it was just too hot at 45 so the rest of us stayed in the cool hotel. For dinner we went to an authentic Arabic restuarant and enjoyed some really good food. I'm quite surprised with how much I have tried and no not as adventurous as some but still more than I thought!! On to Tarifa tomorrow

Granada, Andalusia, Spain and Canary Islands dfurler

Granada

... been pumped up for us quite a bit. Unfortunately, we had seen enough similar things that it didn't seem SOOO great to us. It did have a garden, with a nice view of the "castle". Part of the garden was a water stairway. Supposedly its "bien conocido" or well known. Imagine our dissapointment when we realized that the dry trough running alongside the stairs at waist height was the water-stairway! Well we couldn't just let it go at that. I ...

Granada, Andalusia, Spain fritzandjenny

La Corrida, my first bullfight!!!

... very famous and 1 a little less than the others. The big named guy was David Fandilla, El Fandi. I guess after the bulls are killed, they are immediately sold at high price, to some of the top local restaurants for the bull meat, etc. More interesting things: -Granada is always freezing cold in the morning, no matter how hot it will get in the afternoon, and always chilly evenings as well. - Peluquerías are places to go and get your hair cut and colored ...

Granada, Spain and Canary Islands amy22

Me gusta todos.

... Since my classes are all in English, they are at a different building than the main centro, hopefully I remember how to get there. My room-mates that don't live in my room got back from London today in time for dinner, so it was good to get to know them a little more. Thursday (2/7)- So I did get a little lost on my way to school this morning, but I left in plenty of time (of course) so I was still there early. I only have one class on ...

Granada, Spain anniemac7

Back to Europe

... and I were exhausted from today's journey, but we decided to go into Granada to check out the Tapas bars. After being in Morocco everything seems so expensive, but it is nice to be able to get alcohol instead of Berber Tea. We attempted to get the last bus home, but it never turned up so we ended up getting a taxi, fortunately the driver knew where our campsite was, unlike our Seville experience.

Granada, Spain tayka

Turning 29 years old in Granada

... that flows out and down the hillside. The Moors made excellent use of the natural springs, and the sound of flowing water is evident throughout the complex, much like a Japanese tea garden. In one part of the garden, there stands an old cypress tree that is long since dead. Nikolas explained to us that it has been left there because of legend surrounding the tree regarding the king discovering his wife committing adultery near the tree. According ...

Granada, Spain eurorich