by Tom
The first thing I noticed is the unpleasant sewage and gasoline smell here in Granada. The outskirts of the city are very rural and there are quite a few dogs just hanging out. I´m kind of scared I might get rabies if one bites me. I try to avoid them as best as possible. Our hostel is in an alley but because it´s higher up, the air is a bit fresher. The hostel seemed okay, but this was the first time we all decided to use the liners we had brought instead of the provided sheets. Anyways, it´s hard to use the internet in the hostel because of demand. One girl was very inconsiderate and was on for at least three hour. We code named her Gattuso because she seemed very stubborn about staying on the computer.
The siesta schedule here causes us to walk around aimlessly until dinner time. Here it seems the Spanish meal time is always different from ours. Anyways, we drank quite a bit of coffee watching the two soccer games and sleep was impossible. Jae and I got two hours at best and Jason got a wink in. We woke up at 700am, packed, got ready, and hurried over to the Alhambra, the most visited site in Spain. It´s a towering fortress and it´s Arabic art and molding is very eery. This was the last Moorish stronghold before the Christians took over. There were nice gardens and some of the paths were very complicated, very maze-like. But, although it was beautiful, the Islamic influence is mysterious and intimidating to me for some reason. Then, we walked around Granada like zombies, grabbed a kebab that tasted not so good or fresh, and ended up at a PC place. I guess the rest of Granada does not interest us much, as we are just waiting to catch the Spain-Russia game. Granada to say the least was a bit bland.
Now we head out for our viajes Valencia.
