Granada 2

         Just a quick update here before we head off with our friends for a hike in the Sierra Nevada mountains just outside of Granada:

         After checking out the cathedral two days ago, our friend led us up to the neighborhood where he grew up: Albayzin, an old neighborhood up on one of the big hills on the edge of Granada. Below are some pictures from that trip. We’ll try to post our pictures from our trip to Alhambra yesterday sometime soon.

We've passed by several pieces made by a famous graffiti artist in Granada

We started up on our walk into Albayzin, a neighborhood with lots of small, steep, and curving streets. Our friend used to ride his bike down streets like this when he lived here as a boy

There are lots of "carmens" in Granada: houses with gardens next to them. Here we are trying to peek in to see one.

This was all we could see for this one. Another one we had a partial view of had lots of lemon trees.

lots of neat old houses in the neighborhood

you can see the garden starting to creep over the wall

at the top of our walk was the Mirador San Nicolas - a plaza with an incredible view of Alhambra and lots and lots of tourists

here's the view of Alhambra

We continued walking around for the rest of the evening and passed by our friend's old house (which also had an incredible view of the city). We got to see the sun go down behind the mountains surrounding the city.