Daily Drena: Nos gusta explorar (We like exploring)
Today’s afternoon activity was a run for me and a nap for Lorena. I was finally feeling well enough that I decided to go explore some green areas of Granada, so I took off and ended up heading north out of the city, up through San Miguel (the church on the hill that we visited last week), and found a trail heading up some hills to the north. I followed it for awhile and it dead ended on a road. I looked around and spotted an old dirt road, but I didn’t see any other connecting trails nearby, so I wandered down the dirt road, but it said off-limits, so I went back up to the main road. After a little while I got bored and thought I saw a trail down below, so jumped over the railing and started bushwhacking it down the side of a hill. The surrounding hills are kind of set up as stepped terraces, so every 10 feet or so, there’s a somewhat flat part of the hill, so I followed that for awhile, but didn’t see anything that resembled a trail nearby, so eventually bushwhacked it back up the hill to the road. Continuing along the road a short ways I came up to a military installation that had off-limits and no entry signs everywhere, so I decided to take the cautious approach and headed back the way I came, hah. I found another trail that veered off eventually and came out behind San Miguel so I wandered around in those hills for awhile which eventually brought me back to San Miguel through the cave house dwelling section outside of the city and back to home after 10.7 kms.
I felt fairly safe out there running, but there wasn’t a single soul that I met along the trails at all – very odd. And back in the city, I get the strangest looks from the inhabitants as I run by – it’s as if running is just not a normal activity to do around here. I’m not quite sure how the locals stay fit, as we hardly ever see them out and about on trails and I wouldn’t call the food all that healthy. However, they do tend to cook at home a lot and postre (dessert) is typically fruits at home; no cake, or ice cream, or cookies, so maybe that’s the secret. Plus, it’s definitely a walking city, not a driving city, so perhaps everyone just walks a lot to burn off the calories.
Lorena ended up going for a run as well, after her siesta in the afternoon. Some work, some dinner, and then homework concludes the evening! Hasta mañana (until tomorrow)!
