Granada is a pretty little town and at times can be a busy one as well.
The main street which leads to the locals market is brimming with life...
...much faster and cooler to walk than to take one of these 'chicken buses', called so because basically
EVERYTHING goes on them...
This is not a tourist market, instead it is the market where one goes
to buy their daily goods...
Mercado Municipal, housed in this ancient stone building of robins egg blue, is the place to buy pretty much whatever you need or want...
The building is a maze of entrance ways and exits, meat stalls, fruit and veg, fabric,
zippers, buttons, backpacks, shoes, dresses, rice, beans, cd's,
and pretty much whatever else you can think of
The one stop shop...seems like everyone comes here early in the day to avoid the heat of the
afternoon and get the best and freshest deals...
Here in the 'meat department' you can see these stalls made of stone have
been here for a hundred years...not for the faint of heart or the vegetarian shopper!
Along the backside there are the cooking stalls and boy did it smell good in there!!
So much choice of yummy foods indeed!!
Tom negotiating a pineapple sale...
Back out on the streets, taxi, Granada style...
Granada is full of bikes and double riding (and triple riding even!) is very common...
A few quieter moments...
The lovely Colonial Hotel Dario where we were privileged to stay for the first 4 days of our trip...
And because they've probably been out all night searching for food,
the pups take their morning siesta in the cool of a shady sidewalk...
The dogs here were sweet and mellow. Only thing besides food that they seemed to want
was a good ear rub and a pat on the head once in a while...
If you're prone to trying new things then the local little outdoor cafe offers up
the most delicious snack called 'nacatamala'...
slow roasted pork stewed in polenta and steamed in a banana leaf...YUM!!!!
...just be easy on this pickle...it's SPICY!!!
Nothing that a mango/pineapple smoothie won't cure...
...under the canopies of course!
A look down to the Cathedral...
...another view ...
Along the street to the Mercado there's shoe makers...
...furniture builders...
...bike shops...
...and always the big basket sellers...
Then there's the poor little horses...definitely beasts of burden here...
used as a mode of transportation for hauling things and people...
And at the end of the day take a left at the corner of Penny Lane and Abbey road...
...pull up a hammock...
and settle in for a nice cool cerveza...
