Welcome back to Granada!

Hello hello hello from 27 degree London! (crazy)

Oh, it's been too long. Sorry about my somewhat sporadic posting lately, ever since I got back from the land of sun, tapas & flamenco, I have been working 11 hour days AND had a weekend trip to Brighton so I haven't had much time or energy to put here.

But here I am... With my first post from my gorgeous Easter getaway to one of my homes away from home: Granada, Spain!

There are a lot of pictures so I'll keep the wordy part short - join me on a visual journey (dun dun dunnn) of my first day back in Granada...

We started off by going to my all-time favourite restaurant called Sancho for lunch...

           

...followed by a lovely stroll around the city centre.

My holiday was at the perfect time as Katie, the new au pair, just arrived so we got to get to know each other which was awesome! She's super lovely (fellow kiwi!) and has a blog too - check it out here.

           

Katie and I decided to make the most of the beautiful, hot weather so we spent our afternoon walking along a gorgeous little street called Carrera del Darro and through the Albayzín neighbourhood...

           

           

           

...coming to Mirador de San Nicolas, a picturesque lookout from which you can see the Alhambra and across the city of Granada.

There are certainly worse views, right?

With the sun lowering in the sky and the temperature dropping a few degrees, we decided to make our way back down into the heart of the city, stopping along the way in Calle Caldereria.

           

Calle Caldereria is a bustling street housing some of Granada's finest tea & shisha cafés, as well as an eclectic mix of Moroccan-style shops. We wandered around, naturally favouring the shops with the gorgeous colourful lanterns...

           

... and finishing off our day of food, sunshine and walking, with a smoothie from Greens & Berries.

           

I could not have asked for a better first day back in one of my favourite cities ever, with some of my favourite people ever. If you wanna see more photos in full resolution, I've uploaded them to an album here.

More Granada posts coming soon!