Grenada

We made a quick get away out of Grenada after 1 day and 2 nights, and our first destination was Grenada.  It was a nice city, but a little too nice.  Didn't feel very 'real' and certianly didn't give us the impression that this was what Nicaragua was all about.  In short we only spent about 30 hours here and covered the sites fairly quickly.  Don't get me wrong, was pretty city with some pretty buildings and impressive architecture, however with the nicely painted buildings and churches came hundreds of tourists.  And thus tourist retaurants and bars.  We wanted to eat and live next to a local, not gringos from Europe and the States...

There were island tours, and volcanoes that to see out of the city, but we decided we didn't want Grenada to be our base.  We were excited to see the 'real Nicaragua'...

 But that didn't stop us from snapping a few pictures that we'll share with you...

 Okay...

 The beach... Note this is a fresh water lake, not the ocean.

 A great majority of the foreigners in Grenada seemed to be missionaries here to save the souls of the locals and go home feeling really good about themselves.  I have some opinions about some of the things they do, and the behaviour we witnessed, but it is probably better disscussed in person and not posted online!  Above is a group of such missionaries we discovered baptizing a local on the beach as we went for a stroll...

 More churches....

And finally our hotel.  It was actually pretty cool.  We called it our 'palace' room for the night although it certainly didn't come with any luxuries.  It had a nice common area, but the most laughable/enjoyable part was the room!

 

This picture doesn't do it any justice, but the ceilings were crazy high, and the room was probably the size of my garage!  It was mostly empty space but, those were 10ft doors and at least 14-15ft ceilings.  And yeah... We had WIFI so I took advantage and did some work making a few calls.  It's not always a holiday... :)