Our apartment in Granada is situated in the only part of the city which retains the old Moorish style of architecture (called the Albaicin area).
Here's a view of the apartment, and the large attached balcony.
Our little area's winding, cobblestone streets and white plaster facades certainly were charming.
On our first day we walked uphill until we couldn't anymore and found a nice mirador overlooking the city.
A few blocks from our house we discovered a bustling narrow street lined with Moroccan restaurants, pastry shops, and street vendors. Down a quiet side-street we found this restaurant:
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We both enjoyed really friendly service in this neighborhood, and suspect it's because of Maria's background. At one point, we bought some breakfast items at a small Indian grocery and the man ringing us up was very interested in where Maria was "really" from (and surprised that with parents from Karachi, I only spoke Gujarati). He threw in a couple of free chilis with the rest of our purchase. We also stopped in at one of the pastry shops selling all kinds of baklava variations and had a lovely interaction there with the clerk who explained that the name of one of our selected pastries was based on it resembling a bird's nest (it was delicious).
All in all, we rarely found it necessary to leave our small part of town, though that means we likely missed out on other, very different parts of Granada.
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As an addendum to this post, we are very proud to have figured out how to take the bus to the airport as it was very poorly marked and a completely different system than the other bus system in town (which had numerous, clearly marked route maps). We're getting pretty good at this!
Next time, more days in Granada :) I hope you found some nice, free tapas!
ReplyDeleteOh, yeah; if I had remembered before I would have warned you about that bus system thing! I'm going to assume that the lack of falafel photos in these posts is because you're saving all the falafel for one big meta post.
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