Day 21 - Spending time with the locals

Granada

This morning we had arranged to meet Manny's aunt Isabel in front of the cathedral at 10.30 as she had purchased (don't judge, yet) bullfighting tickets for us for that evening. We met Isabel and had breakfast with her. At one point we explained that we needed to buy bus tickets for Saturday as we were travelling to Almería, and Isabel couldn't understand why. We eventually dicovered our error, the bullfighting tickets were for tomorrow evening - just a little spanner in the works there! Isabel phoned our hotel in Almería and changed our booking, and we managed to extend our Airbnb apartment for another night so it all worked out, we just had to spend an extra day in Granada. 

No idea who's getting married here

After wandering through the city with Isobel we went back to her apartment to collect her car, where we met her middle daughter also called Isabel. This was really interesting to us as up until now we had just been doing tourist things, so it was good to see the other side, the normal suburban apartment living.

Isabel drove us to a beautiful mosque that was now converted to a  church, where one of her daughter's was married. At the time there was a wedding in progress so the church was closed, but this didn't faze Isobel, she just went in, came out a minute or so later and beckoned us in, so we managed to witness a few minutes of someone's wedding ceremony! 

After that Isobel drove us to the bus station to buy our tickets, and then past the bullring and back to our apartment - she was so lovely and delightful!