We spent Christmas in the beautiful old colonial town of Granada, Nicaragua. After arriving in town late in the afternoon on Christmas Eve, we enjoyed a sangria from a sidewalk bar on La Calzada, before heading to a restaurant called El Zaguan for a Christmas dinner, Nica style!
After Christmas dinner we went for a stroll around Granada, which after a brief but heavy downpour late in the afternoon was recovering its Christmas cheer. The central plaza was lit up with Christmas lights and a huge glittering tree.
We found our way into the beautiful old cathedral just in time for Christmas mass to start, where we joined the locals as they celebrated Christmas, complete with exploding firecrackers on the street outside every few minutes. We still aren't sure whether or not the firecrackers where timed to align with the most exciting parts of the mass, but they sure did heighten the emotion and made us pray a little harder. At the conclusion of the mass the whole congregation lined up patiently to kiss a baby Jesus doll.
We enjoyed the next few days wandering around the cobblestones streets of Granada, sampling the local coffees, posing in front of brilliantly coloured walls, watching the horses and carts trot on past and enjoying the atmosphere of the local markets.
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