Alhambra, you’re so cold! Gypsies, you’re not so bad.

I’m behind by like 6 posts :( and this weekend I’m heading to Madrid, so I couldn’t leave without trying to catch up on past trips. The sad part is, I forgot all the funny anecdotes that I try to write about vs. a sharing a boring recount of my experience.

Therefore, enjoy the photos! And first ever video post :)

Alhambra! got to love the artsiness of photostitch :)

Below are a series of pics from our walking tour...

Say hello to Alfonso! He's so cute and I love his accent when he spoke english!

Los Reyes Catolicos! They built this beautiful Capilla Royal (Royal Chapel) for themselves in Granada since they were the ones who won over this last arabic city and joined the nation together with their marriage. They've also left enough fortune to have a mass held in their name everyday.

strange... a used mattress and a broken exercising machine. typical.

A sneak-peek into someone's "carmen" which means a house and a garden in arabic? maybe. you have to be pretty well off in Granada to have a carmen.

It's like mini-Morocco over in Granada. Even though they expelled the arabes and Jews, a lot of customs stayed behind.

like traditional tea houses! they were super mono (cute).

view of the "Caves" where gypsies live(d).

Pudding hot-chocolate and churos. super intense! but best hot-chocolate ever, IMO.

friends: Liliana and Hannah-Hunt

Tour of Alhambra photos

I'm trying to say warm. My feet froze in this arabic castle. While sunny Granada was much warmer than BCN this time of year, the Alhambra was freezing!

Now imagine this painted in red, blue, yellow, and green colors! That's how beautiful this place was 500 years ago.

The 11 lions around this fountain are MIA for restoration purposes. They tired to take the fountain out of the Alhambra too, but couldn't get it through any doors! So they built this display case for it instead for restorers to work in.

The Generalife Gardens, aka the summer place where it was much cooler for the arabic princes, sultans, etc to say in.

They say it's prettier here in the summer when the flowers are in full bloom, but this was beautiful enough for me :)

Enjoying a menu del dia price fixed lunch with some Magda-bucks.

Yay for friends and pitchers of sangria :)

Saturday night flamenco dinner and show!

The show was great!

Had tons of tapas for dinner but the dessert was the best. This was shared with 4 people, and the ice cream with pomegranates brenched in liquior was delicious! We stole everyone elese's left overs ;)

Did you know: Granada means pomegranate? It's the fruit of the city!