Granada

I had a 4-day weekend this last week, so Hollis and I took the opportunity to travel. We took the bus to Granada, a city in the South of Spain.

The cathedral is one of the first things you see in historic downtown because it is so big.

Hollis is the shadow on the right. This cathedral is actually Baroque in architecture. If you are familiar with Baroque, it usually is completely overdone. However, in Granada, the cathedral was finished with very little money, so it is simple Baroque. Or (prepare yourselves) broke Baroque.

In the streets near the cathedral, they have rebuilt the merchant's district with the streets as narrow as they were historically.

Now it is completely full of gift shops. Over-priced, naturally, but not so much that you really feel like you are getting ripped off.

Our first night there, Hollis and I went for a walk to try and get a view of the Alhambra at night. I didn't know where the best view was, but I knew we needed to walk up. The streets were quite narrow and steep.

This is the part of town known as the Albaicín, the oldest part of Granada. Historic downtown is mostly rebuilt because it burned down in the early 1900s.

In our hunt for the best viewing spot, we found some crazy streets. Like this staircase in the middle of the road:

If you happened to be driving a car, you would have to go back and try another way.

Hollis was able to take this amazing panoramic shot of the Alhambra:

We did finally find the park: the viewpoint of some saint.

We really enjoyed Granada. We even discovered a new flavor of ice cream:

Yep. Chocolate hot pepper. And no, we didn't try it.