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Spain:Granada:Informatica Gano

another great train ride brought us here from antequerra, more olive pasted brown mountains and, good lord, sunflowers i do say, and plenty of them…antequerra, which was a picturesque enough town but with nothing really going on. plus the megalithic dolmens (rock tombs built by neolithic magdelenians in 2000bc) were somewhat of a let down being quite “mini-lithic”, and i didn�t like the little guy at the entrance of this “free” site shaking change while we looked around…but on the upside we had a great room with MtV and air con and a nice landlord who gave us free anchovy tapas before we left.

granada is happenin, with a 50th annual music and dance festival going on, but you couldn�t really tell, despite the lighted decorations above the streets, everything taking place indoors and you got to buy tickets and all that…but granada is all hippies and cats, handmade guitars, bars with free tapas, and a slice of the muslim world, evident in the arab alley all the way up to albayzin, with its moroccan tourist trinkets and tea salons and bickering arabs. the alahambra was great by moonlight although you miss much of the stuff thats up there, but the muslim palace is the best anyway, truly amazing and almost dizzying stucco ceilings and tile geometries, archways and little silent courtyards with fountains, etc. nothing like it even in morocco, cause all that shit is closed in morocco.

the albayzin is the old muslim town across from the alahambra, nice with views of the alhambra and snowy sierra nevada peaks in the distance. pleasant narrow streets with small cobblestones overgrown with short bunches of grass here and there. we saw some colorful specks twirling around in the sky that looked like balloons in the distance but upon investigation with borrowed binoculars from an irish dude it turned out to be about a 100 paragliders, somewhere between granada and the mountains, gettin their mad airs on…