El Albaicin

Today we went on a paseo (a walk, just for the sake of walking) around a neighborhood called "el Albaicin". It's the more arab part of the city so the architecture is very different. I might call it minimalist but that it just a personal opinion. The Albaicin is built up the side of the Sierra Nevada so it gave us an amazing view of the city and the fort/palace La Alhambra. Luckily, i took photos so you can see for yourself:

The view of la Alhambra

a little side street with an awesome view

Way off in the distance is la Sierra Nevada. It comes back around so it was behind us too

The best view of the tower of the Alhambra from a patio/tea parlour

In the Albaicin there were a bunch of awesome things, not the least of which were signs that tried to communicate in languages other than english, here specifically english and also sign language. It reminded me of the signs on the subway in Italy. There are a lot of these kind of signs around Granada so I'll periodically come out with more. Here are the ones from the Albaicin:

This one is about a construction zone. Apparently you can die forward and backward but not if you wear a Redcoat uniform. And safety goggles come with a complimentary awesome hairdo.

This is outside a tiny little street that looks like you can drive down it when in reality it gets thinner and thinner until you get stuck.

Technically you could call this graffiti but it's kind of awesome graffiti. In case you speak no spanish at all the word across the top is "smoking" and the one going up and down is "kills".

This is a van from some extreme climbing group in the UK.



So that was the morning, but last night we went to the discoteca, which is like a crazy nightclub. There are many in the city but we went to one called Granada 10. The discotecas don't open til 2 so we went to some bars beforehand. I'll steal fb pics to post later. ahora, i'm going to tomar chocolate with Nick and Tori!

Hasta Luego!!!

Sara