After a leisurely breakfast T our Granada-favorite-coffee-place, Kitty and I went SHOPPING! Give us a map and sufficient motivation, and we can find our way anywhere! We even bought our train tickets for tomorrow's journey to Sevilla...
THEN: indulgence! We went to the Hammam, the Arab Baths (no. Photos allowed)... Paying our money (a very reasonable 49E) we were led into a whole different world: pillared rooms, lantern-lit rooms and connected by arches and passageways, high curved ceilings, tiled walls and floors, rooms of pools (hot, cold, and medium), sequestered corners where you could drink tea, sounds of running water and soft Arabic music... We luxuriated, moving from one pool to another, and then were summoned into yet another area where we lay on slabs of marble and were scrubbed- and-massaged... Then showers, more pool soaking, tea... We feel wonderful!
Shortly we are going to wander once again into the streets for a Moroccan dinner... Ah, the rough life of vacationers!
On another note altogether: a question! What does it say about the state of religion in Spain that Sagrada Familia in Barcelona has no baptismal font - and the Capilla Real in Granada has no Resurrection?! (When I asked, I was told that "it's really all about the Passion"!). Here is a picture of the reredos at the Capilla...
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And I was so looking forward to photo of the interiors of Spanish Bath Houses. Baths in Turkey featured guys jumping on your back and pounding - doesn't sound at all pleasant
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