Shopping

We are saving ourselves for a big day tomorrow at the Alambra. So today we started late and wandered through town from church to church through shopping areas of varying intensity. Saturday seems to be party day here in Granada. As in Portugal, the clothes and shoe shops for children are wonderful. The clothes are so well made, stylish and expensive that it is a good thing that children are in the minority. Otherwise grandmothers and aunts would be impoverished by the time the kids grow up.

Then you have all the adult shops. There are endless shoe shops and shops selling the most extraordinary dresses: some are flamenco dresses with polka dots, others are in the same flamboyant style but in silk, satin and chiffon.


Even the men have lovely clothes to choose from. But we have noticed that there is a severe lack of hairdressers even though everybody is very well coiffed.

In the streets today, were groups of girls obviously enjoying hens partys and groups of boys having bucks parties at the same time. There were also girls in long, white, organdie dresses having first communion parties at our hotel. Boys get to wear sailor suits for the same event. All party, party, party.

After heavy rain in the morning, the sun was glowing in the late afternoon, so everybody else came out to enjoy it.