Europe 2021: Granada

Europe 2021:

Granada

As previously stated, I am very behind on these posts. I'm going minimalistic - pictures with a little explaining. After Cordoba we headed to Granada. We rented an apartment here for a few days that had parking and a view of the Alhambra (which I'll cover in a subsequent post). The parking was an adventure. To get to it, we had to get our huge (by Euro standards) VW Caddy into a tiny lift at the top of an impossibly steep cobblestone hill.

We did it! This was in doubt right up until we crammed the thing in there. While the owner was helping me lower the Caddy into the underbelly of Granada, Branelle carried all our luggage down a couple flights of stairs and waited for us at the apartment entrance.

Parking aside, which is hard to find in some cities, the reason we chose this place was that it had spectacular views of the iconic Alhambra from it's balconies. 

The apartment itself was kind of cool. It had a couple of bedrooms and a kitchen we never used, but it really fit the city and was ideally located to walk anywhere we wanted to go, which was awesome because we weren't about to take that car out until the end of the week.

Granada was a pretty decent city. We stayed to the touristy areas and enjoyed walking around and eating a lot. It's a lot of steep and narrow streets with a Moorish charm and lots of shops and restaurants. 

When it was time to move on, we extracted our little van from the parking "garage" by ourselves. This was much easier then getting it in, but only because there weren't many other cars down there. If all the spots had been full, we might still be down there.