Sunset over the city of Granada... view from the Albayzín

Tapas bars we ate at

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La Alhambra at night! Such a beautiful site with the golden light on the brick

    Explored the albayzín last night with friends and classmates. For our final project, three other classmates and I have to explore a specific area of Granada, take pictures, eat at their tapas bars and present what we find. So we chose the Albayzín which is Spain's best old Moorish quarter. It looks over the city of Granada making it the perfect place to watch the sunset. Took so many pictures of the sun setting over the city with the Sierra Nevadas and La Alhambra in the background. Being up there during sunset was breathtaking! People are advised to not go alone up in this district at night since young "riffians" are known to be hanging out in the dark lanes giving this quarter an edgy feel after dark. However, we left before it became super dark and like most cases the danger level of this area is exaggerated a bit.
   After watching the sunset we grabbed our first tapas at the tapas bar in the picture above. Surprisingly we were the only ones in the bar, too early apparently for the spaniards. They served us a chicken type sauce/stew over fries- it was really tasty! Though tapas are delicious and good since they're free (but only in Granada, everywhere else in Spain you have to pay for tapas) but they don't fill you up. So you go to multiple tapas bars and it ends up being the same price as a regular meal- but the variety and social life is what you pay for.
   Finishing with tapas, Holly and I walked around to find a bar with locals so we could watch the FC Barcelona vs. Malaga fútbol game. We ended up going to two different bars to get different experiences. We discovered people in Granada cheer more for Real Madrid than for Barcelona so the bars were less crazy. It's still our wish to watch the game with spaniard and be screaming at the tv with people hitting each other on the back, beer going everywhere... the stereotypical cheering you think of... next game. Tomorrow our entire study abroad group is traveling to Ronda. I've heard it's absolutely beautiful so I'm excited to explore, discover and take pictures!