I think I have come close to living every man'dream. I am living next to a bar! The photos below show our little square and our apartment in location to the bar called Las Cuevas The Caves. So called because we are living in the area where the Arabs and gypsies lived in caves when they first arrived here in Granada.
The photos below show Julie opening the door to our apartment and Michael waving shows our location in relation the bar restaurant. Just across from our balcony and bedroom is a small church which still celebrates mass. It has one of those small church bells that sort of tinkle/clanks rather than rings. Unlike Seville one of the first things that struck me about Granada was the ringing of church bells all through the day. It doesn't seem to matter where you are, a church bell of some sort and size will ring nearby.
Red tiles are front of our balcony.
Across the square are the white houses which are gated off from the general public. As you turn left and look down the hill you walk past all the small shops and cafes. As mentioned above, even though this is now very much a tourist area, the Arabic and eastern influnces are still strong. For example hookah pipes are still smoked in cafes, and my first meal in the bar below was a Moroccan tagin. This one being a kind of casserole with plums and nuts deeeelishus! All washed down with a nice refreshing glass of sangria. Sangria being a red wine with ice, chopped fruit, and other ingredients which bar men guard more jealousy than the Crown Jewels or ASIO Australia's defence secrets.
Also from our balcony, you can see behind the power cable way up on the top of a hill, Granada's famed Alhambra Palace which was built when The Moors Arabic people ruled southern Spain from around the 7th to the 10th Centuries. But more of that later.
So welcome to our little bit of Granada and our "placa poco" our little square.
In the next blog, some of our adventures.
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