John Edward Cooper’s Notes
Wednesday 6 September 2017 (2)
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[2017] [Wednesday 6 September 2017 (1)] Granada (continued) Towards 5pm, we set out, heading back in the direction of the Cathedral. Janet’s journal adds that it was “HOT! HOT! Yes!” Before we left the hotel, I showed the receptionist the postcards with the stamps, and he said they were OK; indeed, I left them there, to go with the rest of the hotel’s post. We found a hairdresser’s, and Janet had her hair washed and blow-dried. As I sat and waited I looked through a copy of ¡Hola! magazine. There was an item on the Spanish state visit of King Felipe and Queen Letizia to the United Kingdom; and I was surprised to see that Elizabeth II was “Isabel II”, though not surprised to see “Felipe, duque de Edimburgo”. We didn’t have the map with us, but remembered the approximate location of the Cathedral from the map; and when we saw what might be it, at the end of a narrow street, Calle Estribo, off the main street we were on, Calle Reyes Católicos, we turned left down there. A couple of blocks away, at the end of the street, we indeed found the Cathedral. We turned left, skirting the building till we came to the façade in Plaza de las Pasiegas. There was a pavement café in the square, so we had a drink at it before entering the Cathedral by the left door of three in the façade.  Old plan of Granada Cathedral. The wall or partition behind the choir, labelled “Trasc[oro]”, has disappeared, making an uninterrupted aisle; and the last, projecting square part of the Sacristy (top right), labelled “Sacristia” and “Orat.”, appears to have gone as well.   Wednesday 6 September 2017 — 17:43:44 Granada Cathedral: south-west façade   Wednesday 6 September 2017 — 17:43:52 Granada Cathedral: south-west façade   Wednesday 6 September 2017 — 17:54:36 Granada Cathedral: south-west façade, southernmost pinnacle Entry was €5 each, and we were issued with an audio device in the form of a stick with a keypad near the bottom and a grille near the top to hold to the ear. I started using it, but after following its directions a time or two, and then not being sure that I was where it said I should be, I lost interest and didn’t use it any more.  The main part of the Cathedral can be thought of as a “U” in form, with the façade as the open part of the “U”, and with chapels, and other features including even transepts, off the “U” itself, all around. The nave between the sides of the “U” has five aisles. In the centre of the circle described by the curve of the “U” is a Main Chapel, with as I say chapels etc. in the “U” around the back of it.   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Wednesday 6 September 2017 — 18:42:54 Granada Cathedral, from Pasaje Diego de Siloé   Wednesday 6 September 2017 — 18:43:42 Granada Cathedral, from Pasaje Diego de Siloé   Wednesday 6 September 2017 — 18:44:46 Granada Cathedral, looking along Calle Cárcel Baja   Wednesday 6 September 2017 — 18:45:58 Granada Cathedral, from Calle Cárcel Baja   Wednesday 6 September 2017 — 18:46:36 Granada Cathedral, from Calle Cárcel Baja   Wednesday 6 September 2017 — 18:48:54 Granada Cathedral, from the corner of Calle Cárcel Baja and Calle Pie de la Torre   Wednesday 6 September 2017 — 18:49:02 Granada Cathedral, from the corner of Calle Cárcel Baja and Calle Pie de la Torre  Wednesday 6 September 2017 — 18:51:12 Granada Cathedral, from Plaza de las Pasiegas  Wednesday 6 September 2017 — 18:52:54 Iglesia de la Sagrario attached to Granada Cathedral, from Plaza de Alonso Cano When we got to the southern corner, Janet waited for me while I went along the south-east side, along Calle Oficios, which had an open iron gate at each end, and back.   Wednesday 6 September 2017 — 18:54:30 Iglesia de la Sagrario attached to Granada Cathedral, looking along Calle Oficios  Wednesday 6 September 2017 — 18:55:44 Granada Cathedral, entrance of the Royal Chapel, from Calle Oficios  Wednesday 6 September 2017 — 18:55:56 Granada Cathedral, Royal Chapel, from Calle Oficios   Wednesday 6 September 2017 — 18:56:36 Granada Cathedral, looking along Calle Oficios  Wednesday 6 September 2017 — 18:57:38 Granada Cathedral, from near the north-east end of Calle Oficios  Wednesday 6 September 2017 — 18:58:38 Granada Cathedral, dome of the Main Chapel from near the north-east end of Calle Oficios  Wednesday 6 September 2017 — 18:59:18 Calle Oficios from its north-east end  Wednesday 6 September 2017 — 19:00:10 Pavement outside the Royal Chapel  Wednesday 6 September 2017 — 19:00:26 Pavement outside the Royal Chapel   Wednesday 6 September 2017 — 19:00:52 Pavement outside the Royal Chapel  Wednesday 6 September 2017 — 19:01:36 Pavement outside the Royal Chapel When I got back to the southern corner, we went through an arch in the building there, which led us along an alley with shops either side and through another arch at its far end. We continued in that direction another couple of blocks, till we got back to Calle Reyes Católicos. We turned right into that, and made our way back in the direction of the hotel.  Wednesday 6 September 2017 — 19:03:26 Mercado de Artesanía, Calle Alcaiceria, Granada  Wednesday 6 September 2017 — 19:03:46 Mercado de Artesanía, Calle Alcaiceria, Granada We had a look again in Calle Martínez Campos, the street that Manuel had marked in orange on the map he gave us, but we fared just the same there as yesterday; we saw no place open at which we fancied eating. There was an Italian restaurant on that street, but, just as yesterday, it was closed, with no indication that it might open anytime soon. So we went back to Ápol. I had a cerveza or two and an ensalada griega. In addition, we were served a complimentary tapa of potatoes.  Wednesday 6 September 2017 — 19:59:52 Ápol, Calle Alhamar 41, 18004 Granada We were back in our hotel room ca.9pm, and in bed ca.10pm. 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