Granada the last city to fall to the catholics in 1492. The city still retains much of its distintive culture. From little tea shops where you choose from a menu of scores of teas and sit on stools around low tables to all the arabic words and of course the Alhambra. There is also a large population of new age homeless hippies who all have dogs--it´s a very strange subculture.
We finished up our studies here. We were staying with a family but moved to a different place and found ourselves with another grandma. She was incredibly sweet and very difficult to understand as the people from Grenada speak very differently. She was very concerned about us not eating enough. For lunch she would prepare all of this food and would expect us to eat all of it--it was great food just there was so much of it. She kept telling us to eat more and telling Paul that he needed to finish off the dish so he would have energy for the rest of the day after he took his one hour siesta of course!
We spent a day at the Alhambra an Arabic Palace. It really looks simple from the outside but when you enter in you are blown away by all the work in plaster, tile, wood and water adorning the floors, walls and ceilings of this incredible place. We could not get tickets to get in until the evening session so we toured it in the dark under a full moon and dim interior lighting. It was magical, I felt like I was a character in Arabian Nights in a Sultan´s palace!
We took a tour with the school on Saturday up to some of the towns in the Sierra Nevada such incredible scenery and we had a great guide. He told us so much about the mountain people and took us to a ham factory--there were 200,000 legs there hanging from the ceiling! Like a scene from a horror movie--these are the legs that you see hanging from the ceilings of most of the local cafes. They can be stored just hanging for up to 5 months in this climate.
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