Anyone in Granada?

[ratherbefollowingflechas]

Hi, we are in Granada today and would love to buy any peregrino dinner tonight if you're here.

Buen Camino!

 

[Colette Z]

That’s so thoughtful. Hope you meet someone....maybe check the albergue.

 

[Deleted member 73526]

That’s so thoughtful. Hope you meet someone....maybe check the albergue.

There isn't a dedicated pilgrim's albergue in Granada, but pilgrims often stay at a convent run by the Comendadoras de Santiago. I don't know if you'll meet pilgrims there today but I expect the nuns will let you see the stone in the courtyard that marks 200km from Almeria - and perhaps you'll be able to see the inner gardens of the convent too.

The official address of the convent is on Calle Santiago (see below), but the gate for pilgrims (and the 200km stone) is on Calle Paco Seco de Lucena.

Real Monasterio De La Madre De Dios
C/ Santiago, 20
18009 GRANADA. Tel.::958- 225250

 

[ratherbefollowingflechas]

Thank you so much for the info. We will try the convent. Was so excited to follow a few arrows around the cathedral. It made me gidddy.

 

[ratherbefollowingflechas]

We stopped at the convent/albergue and there are 8 pilgrims there tonight, but our poor Spanish prevented our intentions from being understood.

 

[Icacos]

We stopped at the convent/albergue and there are 8 pilgrims there tonight, but our poor Spanish prevented our intentions from being understood.

That might be a blessing in disguise.

 

[Deleted member 73526]

Poor Spanish shouldn't be an obstacle. Some of the nuns speak better English than I do ...

If you feel like following arrows for a day, I highly recommend taking a bus to Quentar and doing the stage from Quentar into Granada. It's a beautiful stretch of the Camino. (Unfortunately, the same is not true of the stage from Granada to Pinos Puente which is rather industrial).

(And there's lots more wonderful walking to be done in the Sierra Nevadas from Quentar or Güéjar Sierra - easily accessible by bus from Granada)