Postcard Granada:

 

The Alhambra, yes it's beautiful and you spend your allocated visit timeslot  trying to photograph lace walls but wait there's more.....

 

BREIF WANDERLUST OR SERIOUS RELATIONSHIP ?

 

It's all true, on Sacromonte Hill above Granada people live a hippy lifestyle in caves -its basically 'rent free' but a couple of ex cave dwellers told me that, besides the gentle aroma of Pot wafting through your neighborhood, which causes your puppies and horses to be permanently stoned, life in a hole that's been dug in the side of a mountain is no walk in the park.

 

From the Sacromonto hillside there is a MAD view of Granada's Albaicin district but there's mostly no electricity and very occasionally the community is evicted, as the government responds to some type of 'feral hippy' incident .

 

But this country essentially invented Anarchy and Granada has seen Islamists and Christians sharing space with Jews and poets (gasp!)- hence cave evictions are merely temporary and everyone just comes back home again. Simple, problem solved.

 

I visited one of the largest caves located deeper inside the Sierra Nevada mountains. The man who lives there will feed you and let those who drop by stay the night if they bring him 5 litres of water.

 

BY the way- I'm still here - is that a bad thing? You have no Idea how much I love Granda. Me and Granada are so Muchos in love, its so nice. There WILL be more Granada!

Score/5:  ♥♥♥♥♥