After our
‘not so nice’ flat in Oviedo we decided that as a wedding anniversary present
to ourselves we would have a nice place in Granada. We looked at the available
options and found the perfect place. Our street is in the heart of the Old Town
of Granada called Albayzín.
It´s a lovely neighbourhood situated on a hill
opposite the Alhambra full of narrow, windy streets and a jumble of white washed
houses with those typical terracotta rooftops. On the ´street´ we live on you
can only find one door and that will be the door of our house.
There are
four small flats in the house and they all look onto a small courtyard. This is
the heart of the house full of plants, a small, secluded green oasis.
Our house
has the same typical Spanish style roofing as all the other houses around us. I
love this style as it´s just so Spanish!
We have
arrived to the best feature of the house: the terrace. This is the view we look
at every single day.
Even though
it’s a communal space usually we are the only people here so it’s all ours.
Even if there are visitors in the other flats they are generally out all day to
roam the streets of Granada so they never bother us. We practically live here.
We have our breakfast here, Paul works up here until it gets too hot, we can
even sunbathe here as even though it’s the end of October around 3 in the
afternoon it’s still quite hot. We often sit here in the evening and watch as
the evening light lights up the Alhambra in front of us, munching on olives and
having a drink. We love our terrace.
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