Day 22 - I didn't know they did that!

Granada

Our apartment is a bit noisy, and last night was Saturday night so it was worse than usual. It sounded like we had an army of drunks right outside our window, the narrow streets seem to amplify the noise, K was woken by the sound of someone weeing on the cobblestones!. 

We found ourselves with an unexpected extra day and on a Sunday as well - so the only stuff that was open was the tourist places, everything else was totally shut down.

After a sleep in (yeah, being on holidays is tough) we decided to head for a picturesque square by the river on the way to the Alhambra. We should have learnt our lesson by now, and that we'd be smart enough to spot a tourist trap by now, but no  - we fell into the poor quality food trap again!

I'd get out of there too

After an easy afternoon we headed off to the bullring. K wanted to see the bullfighting with the horses and we had front row seats. Unfortunately the seats were narrow concrete steps, with someone's legs behind you and elbow to elbow with your neighbour. We had mixed feelings about attending this especially as K has an aversion to gore and any form of violence but as she is also a country girl she is quite pragmatic about such things. 

So, starting with the good stuff, the horses were amazing! Their movements were top dressage standard, amazing passage and two other movements K had never seen before, brilliant! The not so good side ... is that it's all about killing the bulls  - all 6 of them, right in front of you. 

The bulls seemed to spend a good part of the time looking up at the crowd totally bewildered at what was going on. After teasing them mercilessly, they crowd rejoices when they eventually collapse from blood loss and exhaustion. To finish things, a matador dressed in black drives a knife into their poll and cuts their spinal cord, they then cut off an ear and parade around with it as heroes - the bulls never have a chance. To finish it all off, they chain the dead bull to some big strong horses and drag it out. It was all quite hideous - don't need to see that again!.