GRANADA TAPAS GUIDE BOOK - SELLING FAST. ONLY 80 COPIES LEFT. BUY NOW!

The only English written book guiding people to 100 of the best tapas bars in the city & province of Granada is selling out. Only 80 copies left now. So if you are visiting Granada, or living in the province, be quick and buy a copy now. The book takes the visitor to the city by the hand and offers 18 routes of 4 bars each. That's 72 of the best tapas bars in the city where tapas comes free. The book leads you from one one authentic bar to the next and points out other places of interest en route.
Granada is a great city and is full of tapas bars. But knowing which ones to go to is the skill. This book avoids the more touristy traps where you might only get a plate of crisps or olives. Instead it directs you to the atmospheric bars that serve tasty tapas with your drink.
The book also includes 28 bars in the wider province of Granada. Bars in areas such as the Costa Tropical, La Alpujarra, the Lecrín Valley and villages close to the Sierra Nevada ski resort.
The book fits in pockets and handbags and costs just 10 Euros or Pounds (plus postage). You can buy it via the PayPal buttons on the right hand side of this page.

METRO BOOKS IN GRANADA

The essential guide to 100 of the best tapas bars in Granada can be bought via a variety of methods. One is at the excellent shop Metro Books in Calle Gracia, 31, in the city centre. Friendly, efficient and bi-lingual staff will sell you this book and many others in the English language. It is the best place to buy English written books in Granada. It stocks many books about Tapas and it is the bookshop with the exclusive right to sell the Granada Tapas Tour book in the city itself. Their telephone number is (00 34) 958 261 565 or e-mail them via metrolibros@terra.es

They sell the latest fiction and non fiction books in the English language. The shop also sells many Spanish written books, including school text books.

Find Metro Books in the sadly no longer cobbled backstreets of Granada close to Plaza de Gracia and a short walk from Plaza Bib Rambla.

It's a smashing bookshop and a lovely place to lose yourself for hours. And when you come out many of the tapas bars in the book are close by, including the atmospheric La Bodega de Antonio in Calle Jardines (page 23 of the book '100 Tapas Bars in Granada.')

ZARA HOME COMES TO GRANADA

At last! Zara Home has made it to the splendid Spanish city of Granada. On my travels around Spain i have envied people living in those cities that boast a Zara Home store. In the days before living in Spain took any money i once had, i drove back from the likes of Alicante with various goodies from these superb shops. Ironic, therefore, that they open a branch on Reyes Católicos in Granada at the very time when i have been living off the same 4 Euros 42 cents for the past fortnight or more!
For those of you living in Spain and who still have money under the mattress (if you put it in the bank it will have vanished under a sea of charges); then get along to Zara Home. Lovely items for all ages. Bedding, clothing, colourful tablecoths, comfy slippers for winter, items for babies and grown ups. Lovely smelling soaps and candles. There is much to attract customers and, based on my first visit to the Granada branch, the Spanish customers are loving it. The cost of living in Spain has grown exponentially at an alarming rate in the past couple of years, so it was reassuring to see that some people living in Spain still have disposable income.

LET IT SNOW... in SEPTEMBER!

Sunday September 13th. The snow fell above Granada & continued to fall the next day, when temperatures plummeted.

Astonished Granadinos stood amazed and bemused on the streets of Granada on Sunday evening. Their eyes were drawn to a shocking revelation. The low and heavy clouds that had brought so many hours of rain to the city streets lifted to reveal an early arrival. Snow. Yes, snow!
Lots of it covered the Sierra Nevada mountains including Mulhacén, at 3477 meteres (11407 feet) the highest peak in Spain. People were pinching themselves. Wiping their glasses. Shaking their heads in disbelief. Temperatures plummeted from the mid 30's celsius on Friday to as low as 16 celsius on Monday morning - when more snow fell at the highest levels.
Winter has arrived it seems. Summer is over. Autumn is AWOL. The warm sunshine will return and the Granada area looks at its best when the snow is on the mountains and the sky is blue.

GWYNETH in GRANADA

Some months ago Gwyneth Paltrow was in Granada filming part of her TV series, "Spain - on the road again." In the series she travels around the country with three friends sampling the gastronomy of Spain. The series begins transmission in the USA next month. Airings on Spanish and UK television will follow. She dined at various locations in the province of Granada, including Mirador de Morayma in Granada itself and on the seafront in Almuñécar at the restaurant La Última Ola

The Andalucia section of the website for the programmes is at http://www.spainontheroadagain.com/vv_andalucia.shtml

and clips from the series can be see via you tube, including this taster http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKsyRL-vd_o&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Espainontheroadagain%2Ecom%2Fvv%5Fandalucia%2Eshtml&feature=player_embedded