Tuesday, January 18, 2011

30 things I'll miss from Granada



1.       Toast with tomato and olive oil
2.       “No pasa nada…”
3.       Tapear and pasear
4.       Café con leche at Bar Seco… and Macarena
5.       Lotfi & Friends
6.       Erminio, el Viejo Verde
7.       Carlitos remembering my name, and saying it: “¡MEE-ya!  ¡MEE-ya!  ¡MEE-ya!
8.       Tiny things for tiny Bethlehems in the Christmas Market in Plaza Bib-Rambla
9.       Vagina-pomegranates
10.   Malafollá
11.   Urban hippies (“perro-flautas”)
12.   Barça-Madrid games
13.   A good glass of Rioja or a caña
14.   Lupe getting emotional for architecture
15.   Wet cobblestones in the Albayzín
16.   Siestas with Campanilla
17.   Hortensia: “Nos vamos a poner como el quico.”
18.   The fake British artist and the horrible “violinists” in Plaza Nueva
19.   DUENDE
20.   Throngs of hormonal teenagers in Puerta Real
21.   The afternoon sun shining on the Catedral
22.   Plaza Trinidad, after a nice rain, smelling rankly of pigeon-poop
23.   Views of the Alhambra, the Albayzín and the Sierra Nevada from the IES tower
24.   So many beautiful children and so many beautiful baby clothing stores
25.   Manly-men in pretty scarves
26.   Kebap King and Teterías
27.   Fluorescent-colored ties
28.   Intense Spanish soap operas
29.   Adolfo saying: “Venga…”
30.   Corte almendrada from Los Italianos

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