This former capital during the colonial days has a lot of charm because of that history. You wouldn’t have thought so from the bus station where we ended up. It was the first ride in one of the old school buses retired from America, that we took from Rives and we ended up right in the ramshackle market .We ploughed right into it with the backpacks ‘cause we‘d been told our place to stay was in there somewhere. There wasn’t much English in there but we found it eventually only to be given a pretty ordinary room beside some noisy German girls at the top of some very steep stairs. Next day we got a great room downstairs when someone moved on. It was just one block to the main square which had the biggest Cathedral in Central America and some great colonial buildings which had been restored.
Caught some music and dancing in this city. First night in the restaurant pedestrian street off the main square, we caught a neighborhood concert by the kids and later some good strolling minstrels working the diners for tips. Next night there was some brilliant dancing in full costume in the main square. Did the obligatory tour of the main buildings in the city by horse and sulky and walked down to the seedy lake front which needs some work. All in all one of the highlights of the trip so far was Granada
