I've now been in Granada for 5 days, and I'm already in love with the city. It's the perfect size at around 200,000: enough people to keep things interesting, but few enough to be able to escape the hustle if you want to. Of course, I don't want to though, because I'm a hustler.
Granada is an incredibly beautiful city, set in a valley surrounded by the Las Alpujarras to the south and the Sierra Nevada to the northwest. Right now, the temperature is in the mid-70s, but should be dropping into the 60s in a few weeks time. As the temperature drops here, snow should begin to fall in the Sierra Nevada, and the snowcapped mountains should make for an incredible backdrop. In the city, there are tons of narrow cobblestone streets, grassy park-like areas, and fountains galore: It's like Disney world. But, with gypsies.
Speaking of which, I think it is absolutely necessary, if you want to experience Granada at it's finest, to seek out the slew of African immigrants who wander aimlessly about the streets selling bootlegged CDs and DVDs, books, maps, umbrellas, iPhones, motorbikes, sex toys, etc. They're a friendly, dogged bunch. I hate them.
More on Granada to come.
Aside from that, I recently had an interesting episode on Facebook. The exchange went as follows:
I receive a message from a one Orlam Zerbek saying "Hi, my name is not really Orlam Zerbek. It is Oliver Shuttle. I want to add you because your name is similar to mine."
Naturally, I rejected his friend request, and attached this note: "Dear Oliver (Orlam), I'm sorry to hear that your name is really Oliver Shuttle. My name is actually Orlam Zerbekstein, and I was thinking of adding you because your name was similar to mine, but now it would seem pointless, since your name is really Oliver and my name is really Orlam. Best of luck to you, Oliver - you lying, deceitful bastard."
Sincerely,
Orlam (Oliver)
- O
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2 comments:
now when you say hustler, are you referring to a subscription? or a penchant for pretending to be washed up and then throwing down 180 dunks on a 5ft tall 6th graders?
as for disney world, they do have gypsies - chip and dale. fool, they are always trying to take your food, the silly hobos.
finally, do you think orlam is really a long lost cousin descended from the bastard side of the edward lucius maximus von trappenstein shuttlesworth IV? because that would make more sense than him just lying...or he might have dementia
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