I have been living in Granada for almost a year (in total). I left for three months which ended up being a short holiday in Eastern Europe (specially Poland and the heart shaped country, Lithuania), which is no secret that I love it there.
These are (some of) the reasons why living in Granada has ruined my life forever:
- It’s cheap as fuck.
- You can walk everywhere.
- Thank God for chinos. Small Asian owned grocery stores that are open till late and where you can buy 1€/litre beer.
- Tapas. Tapas can be a small meal while drinking. And best of all… they are free!
- The (Mediterranean) Sea is only a bit more than an hour away.
- The (Atlantic) Ocean as about three hours.
- The Sierra Nevada is like less than an hour.
- Cheap alcohol: a small beer (33cl) in the supermarket is only 25cents
- I have my own shot at my favourite pub, Hamelin.
- The servers at my favourite café already know what I’m having: full English breakfast.
- More tapas!!!
- Nightlife starts after midnight. Going out for tapas is going out for a drink before going out drinking.
- Amazing and cheap breaksfasts!
- Magnificent hikes that you can do on your own for free!
- Nature, nature everywhere.
- Unfortunately, dog shit as well.
- Free Spring rave-ish music on the hill behind Granada, a.k.a. Perdiz Tropical.
- Another free rave in the (super) close town of Santa Fé, a.k.a. Dragon Festival.
- Lovely weather even in February (sorry that my friend is in the screenshot).
- Lack of appropriate heating and insulation but then again, there are only three months of winter.
- Impressive Game of Thrones-ish like castle: Alhambra.
- Kebab shops. I don’t know, there might me some debate here. Berlin’s kebabs are also very good, specially the one that is close to that U-Bahn station in Neuköln. Over here they are known by their Arabic name: shawarma. The one in the photo is called tarrina: it’s kebab meat with chips and shawarma sauce. Perfect drunk/hangover food.
- More nature.
- ok, this is mostly not nature but it was fun to go paragliding.
- Joe Strummer lived here and has his own little square.
- Free live music.
- Impressive sunsets...
- and even more tapas!
So peeps, those are some of the reasons why Graná has ruined my life. When I hitchhiked to Lithuania last year, I was in Bilbao ordering a beer with my friend and the first thing I noticed was there was not food coming with the beer.
I was on the quest to find my happy place. I thought I found it when I spent an awesome year in Estonia but it was not until I came back here that I realized that this is the place that makes me the most happy in the whole world. Estonia was and is a very special place for me but this small city stole my heart from day... 54
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