Granada

The Alhambra was certainly the main attraction in Granada, but I loved the city! It had such a fun feel to it, and I really liked visiting the cathedral where the Catholic Kings Ferdinand and Isabel are buried. I have a hard time thinking of anybody who seemed to have a deeper impact on Spanish culture and history than Ferdinand and Isabel, especially before the 20th Century. We couldn't take any pictures but the Cathedral is small and solemn, but has a few very notable paintings inside, including an original of the one below.

Granada is famed for its night scene, and so we went bar hopping that night, or, as I like to call it, tapa hopping (It's fun to say tapa-hoppin really fast). In Spain, it's customary that if you order a drink, they'll bring out a tapa. (Like an appetizer, it literally means lid, since it traditionally came on top of the drink you were served). As Spain has a special flavor of lemon flavored Fanta (Which is amazing and almost tastes like natural lemonade but bubbly), a group of us went to a few different places, got our fantas and our tapas for dinner.

It was super fun and really delicious. The different bars we went to had very different atmospheres- one was refined, one was like a sports bar, and another had the feel of a soup and salad place.

 The food was good and it was really fun to do something that most modern Spaniards do and is an integral part of modern Spanish culture.