So here is the rundown on our trip to Granada this past weekend. Once we began to search for a hostel to stay in, we quickly found out that apparently everybody travels to Granada when there is a long weekend. There weren’t any hostels that we could book. So Thursday night we started looking into hotels. We found one and booked it and within 2 minutes they were calling us back to say there was an error and that they didn’t actually have the room. At the exact same moment I was talking to one of my friends at dinner that lives there and she told us that we could just stay at her place even though she was going to be in Aguilas for the weekend.
So we head out at 6:45 am on our way. As soon as we get to the bus station in Lorca, the next town over where we are catching the bus, 3 cops approach us and ask for our passports. In the 14 previous months that I have spent in Spain, I have never had a cop ask for my passport or any type of identification. So of course we don’t have our passports with us so they took our drivers licenses and called them in. Everything was fine of course and they left. Two hours later we are in Granada and exploring the new city.
On Friday we pretty much just walked around for a little bit. That night we went and chilled at one of Cal’s friend’s apartment. Cal has a bunch of friends that are over here right now. Everywhere we go we always seem to run into someone that is from the Boston/Philly/Jersey area or from LA, never anyone from Tennessee. Haha, oh well. Pretty much everyone at the apartment was from Boston and three people were from LA. We ate dinner and chilled there for awhile then headed to the apartment to go to bed.
Saturday we got up and began walking around again. We ended up walking to the Alhambra and proceeded to see if it was sold out. We were hopeful that there would be tickets left since it was cloudy and raining. We finally make it up there and the tickets are sold out BUT there just happened to be these four girls from Italy who had bought tickets but had to leave right then because their bus was leaving and they weren’t going to have time to go in. So we bought the tickets and spent the next almost four hours there. The Alhambra was quite impressive. I do feel that I enjoyed the Alcazar in Sevilla more though. I don’t know if it because I was visited it first or because when I went there it was sunny or what. I just liked it better, contrary to the rest of the world. After that we headed out for an early dinner which consisted of tapas. In Granada, whenever you buy a beer, glass of wine or whatever they give you a small portion of a food of your choice. We went to a couple tapas bars and then headed back to the apartment. We had a Halloween party to go to so we found a store and bought some random things to wear for the night. We met up with everyone from the previous night at the party and then left later on to meet up with one of Ana’s friends that also happened to be in Granada. We went to another tapas bar and then chilled with them the rest of the night.
Sunday we started out walking around again. We went to eat lunch in this restaurant that had mainly all Middle Eastern food. I had lamb with rice covered in curry. I don’t like curry but I ate it anyway because I was starving. After that we headed back to the apartment to pack up our stuff and head back to Aguilas, where it is warm and always sunny.
Overall the trip was really good. Got to see some amazing things and meet some cool new people. I enjoyed the city and the Alhambra but did not fall in love with them like everyone else. I love watching movies so I have to draw a comparison to this trip with a movie. A movie comes out and everybody loves it and hypes it up and by the time you go see it you have pretty high expectations. Most movies might be decent, but don’t live up to the hype. This was the case with Granada for me. I should get some pretty interesting reactions this week at school from everybody when they ask what I thought of Granada and I say it was alright. Deuces