Granada

This weekend has been spent in the beautiful city of Granada.

I have too many pictures and I am struggling to find a few which will sum up the whole experience, but this is what I have managed.

The train journey took me through the wonderful and still not boring hills full of olive groves passing between small mountains/big hills.

The walk through the small ally ways and cobbled streets to find the hostel was very pretty and full of little Arabic shops and market stalls, I was soon met by a sign which said "Kasbah" which the people from Coventry will find some amusement in I'm sure :-)

The view from the roof top terrace which also happened to be the floor which my room was situated on had a fantastic few of the plains to the west of Granada and some mountains to the north, sun set was just after I arrived.

The first evening they had a barbeque outside and I sat, ate and drank with the nice people I met, and then I ran into someone I had met in Malaga who I was very happy to see we then decided to go to a shisha bar of which there are many, where we had Pakistani tea and smoked cherry flavour shisha.

The next day with a pair of Americans, an Australian and myself went for an adventure to try and find the famous caves they have in Granada. This took us right up the mountain where there were fantastic few and quaint little shops with plates beautifully enveloping the buildings.

I also found out that Granada is the place the Spanish like to come for they're bachelor/bachalorette parties, so Saturday night the streets were full of people in a variety of of matching out fits and yelling and riding donkeys up the road. We got some tapas from a bar with a suit of armour in the middle of the place. and headed back to the hostel for a bar crawl.

The following day we took a trip to the Alhambra which is a humongous castle type thing with the ozzy fella aswell as two french girls and two itialn fellas, the conversations we had were just a hilarious mix of languages and great fun. It has dozens of gardens, ponds statues and fruit trees among other things. It was also home to the most spectacular views of Granada. Where the snow capped sierra Nevada mountains could be seen.

We then went for a walk bought I nice kebab, which we ate while watching the sun set folowed by a short walk where we took in some of the local street art.

Monday was a short day as I had a train to catch, but we went to the cathedral in Granada and sat by the river playing ukulele and singing :-)

Granada was a very beautiful place and awesome fun, I feel like 3 days was not enough time, I could have used one or two more to try and do everything but there is always next time!