17 April - Day 33
We decided to walk around the Albayzin area which is a hill suburb across from the Alhambra Palaces. The streets are narrow, the climb uphill, and plenty of whitewash houses and tapa bars. The flamenco guitars were out in force to entertain the tourists and their euros. They were good.
The view across to Alhambra gave another perspective to the palaces by morning and evening when we revisited after dinner.
On the way there and back, we ate the free tapas that came with every 200 ml beer I ordered. In the interest of feeding Marcus, I had to drink more beer to ensure that he had his share of tapas too. Even so Marcus needed a cholocate crepe to complement his lunch crawl.
Truth be known, I didn't eat much of the tapas. Feeling hungry after a beer only diet, we ducked into a supermarket to buy a proper lunch comprising baguette, olives stuffed with anchovies, broadbeans (bloody spell check keeps changing this to broadband) in brine and smoked bacon. Back at the hotel, we had a delicious lunch and Marcus ate half of it even after consuming most of my free tapas.
It was siesta time so we checked emails, facebooked, read and watched John Wayne in Spanish.
At dinner time, I was determined to check out this seafood bar recommended by the Fodor travel guide, and is usually packed everytime we walked past, La Diamanté. At 8.15pm, they opened for dinner, and this is early, we were first through to door.
I ordered a plate racione (large paid for) of Chopitas baby grilled squid. But really there was no need to buy food. Everytime we needed more food, just order beer. We had gambas (deep fried unbattered prawns), cold unshelled shrimps, cooked pipis drizzled in olive oil and a mixed plate of deep fried anchovies, fish and cuttlefish. Five beers and all that food 18 euros.
Marcus suggested we walk off dinner by going up to Albayzin again.
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