so last sunday, i went to granada to meet up with a friend of a friend. mi amiga hana has wwoofed and couch surfed in spain as well and has some contacts here to whom she connected me. one of them was jessica, a belgian woman who lives in a beautiful granada neighborhood with her german flatmate johanna. jessica's mother is american, so she speaks fluent english. i speak a little german, even less french, and i'm getting better at spanish. johanna speaks fluent german and spanish, and is pretty good at english, too. and jessica also speaks fluent spanish. so there we were sitting in their living room alternating between 4 different languages simultaneously. it was hilarious!
after breakfast, jessica walked me around her neighborhood called El Albayzín, which houses the mirador de San Nicolas. this is a beautiful sight-seeing spot that overlooks much of granada city and the historical Alhambra. kettia and i plan to return to the city so that we can tour the Alhambra, among other things. i might go see a flamenco performance on my own, though, before she gets here (in may).
so anyway, we also visited the city center and a tiny street with a buncha moroccan merchants. came back to the apartment and fixed a delicious lunch, then got some gelato (yes, i am allergic to dairy. yes, i paid for it the next day. yes, it was worth it.) as i walked to the bus to return to the farm. little did i know, things would be downhill from there, which i discuss in the next post. but first, enjoy these beautiful photographs:
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