My first night in Grenada we met up with the GAP travel group from Leon again and got drinks at Zooms bar on the main thorough fare in Grenada. It´s a sports bar run by a Nicaraguan who was raised in New Jersey (of course) and who can actually make a repectable daquiri! The town itself is SO quaint it´s ridiculous, it was originally designed as a showpiece city by the Spanish and then burned to the ground a number of times (such as when William Walker the American, razed it after his failed attempt to conquer south america for the confederates) and has been rebuilt generally along it´s original lines. TONS of color, almost every builing in every imaginable shade, the Cathedral is bright yellow, the surrounding buildings orange, blue, purple, green, etc. The main
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