Nicaragua photos -- Granada

This is Granada. When people talk about beautiful colonial cities in Central America, they´re talking about Granada. (Some people think they´re talking about Antigua, Guatemala. Those people are wrong.)

This is what most of the city´s downtown looks like, except a little less so. It´s pretty and striking, and somehow fiting.

We were in Granada for election night and the day after. No booze was sold for three days. That did not deter these men, who were thrilled that Daniel Ortega had defeated Oliver North´s hopes and dreams, again.

This is me, standing on the side of the street (and stating the obvious). In the background you see a church. One of the perks, apparently, of Spanish rule is lots of churches. It´s like Lynden, Wash., but old and warm and relatively free of Dutch people.

Here´s Lago de Apoyo. It´s warm, clean and gorgeous.