Ce-ing Ce in Granada!!

This weekend we had a ‘free’ school trip to Granada (free meaning most likely, judging by the 4-star hotel we stayed in and awesome meals, it was merely factored into our original cost to study here), and it was pretty fun. The best part was definitely ce-ing Ce!!!! (for anyone who may not know, Ce (pronounced ‘see’) goes to Ithaca with me and is studying in Granada this semester. And, for anyone who also may be wondering, he does not go by his nickname Ce here anymore because it is too confusing with Sí, so he goes by his real name, Kwesi.

But anyway, Friday morning we got on the buses and headed out to Granada. It wasn’t too far, about 3 hours or so by bus, and after we got there we had lunch on our own and free time for the afternoon. Ce met us at the hotel and then we walked around for a while and he showed us around some parks and the ‘river,’ aka stream.

After our break, we went to the Catedral and Capilla Real (Royal Chapel). It was really cool because I had studied parts of the cathedral and chapel in art class, so it was really cool to actually see them and remember the characteristics.

We had a little more free time after we were done there, so we walked around the Arab quarter a bit, which was sooooo much like Morocco. We got some ice cream at the most AMAZING place ever, that had all the flavors decorated with oranges or grapes or whatever the flavor was, and the we hung out for a while at a café until we had to go to dinner.

After dinner, we met up with Ce again and he took us to his tetería (tea shop) he goes to all the time. Since he’s such a regular, he’s friends with the owners and we got to talk to them for a while. The tea shop was really cool because it was decorated with lanterns and cool Moroccan rugs, and the tea was sooo good. We stayed there for a pretty long time, and then we headed to another one of Ce’s regular hangouts, a chawarma restaurant, where we got some chawarmas, or pitas with all these delicious ingredients baked inside. 

Saturday we hung out with Ce again in the morning and tried to go to a marketplace, but most of the vendors weren’t there because they were scared away by the stormy clouds. So instead we went and met Ce’s Señora, who is the cutest lady ever, and then eventually headed back to the hotel for lunch.

After lunch, we went to the Alhambra and Generalife (not pronounced General Life but actually Hen-are-a-leaf-a), which is this old Moorish castle/palace with gardens and the palace of Carlos V, who conquered the Moors. We were pretty lucky because we missed the rain that came as we were driving home. Although we weren’t quite so lucky when it was pouring back in Sevilla when we got home.

Well that is all for now. ¡Hasta luego!