I took a 5 hour bus from Madrid this morning, and have made it to Granada, my first stop on my southern Spain tour. Granada has a ton of history, especially from around the 16th or 17th century from when it was the last stronghold against King Fernando and Queen Isabella (the one's responsible for the inquisition). I believe that is all correct, but because the city was able to hold out so long, it still has a ton of it's original north african influence. The streets by my hostel are all filled with morrocan merchants and the al ahambra (a beautiful morrocan palace) is here. I'm visiting that tomorrow, and tonight is tapas time!
I'm staying here for 3 nights, and even though it's a small city, there still seems to be a lot of fun places to check out. At the very least, the hostel is frickin awesome. It's a hippie heaven, so at least I'll have a couple of days of chill out time to recover from Madrid and Barcelona.
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