Granada is located on the Western coast of Lake Nicaragua. It’s full of beautiful cathedrals, architecture, volcanos and mini islands.
The town itself is beautiful, with streets full of open markets; vegetables, fruits, sweet breads, toiletries, birds(?) (lots of live birds), and most everything else you could think of.
The church scene was beautiful, upon the arrival of the hostel I stayed in which was beautiful as well (with a great pool, hammocks galore, rocking chairs, a full kitchen, more fans than you can imagine, FREE all you can eat pancakes (don’t eat more than 3 or you’ll regret it) and much more) … the sweet hostess gave out maps of the top 5 cathedrals in town.
Side note: Church vs Cathedrals
A church is typically a Christian house of worship, while a cathedral is a church which is the site of a bishop for churches that have them. Churches are anywhere and typically have one priest and one mass, while Cathedrals are located in cities, have many pastures, and several masses throughout the week. Here are some of the Beauts I visited..
At one of the *Cathedrals we visited after many many attempts to do such we met a man from the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua who came for tree seeds to plant and grow lumber to make and sell furniture. With the proceeds from furniture, buy and grow rice and other foods along with helping a local orphanage. He from what I understood couldn’t find the seeds he was looking for and the other seeds he desired he was ban to buy because of his origin.
Soccer was uplifting and most fun I had in this town. As I went for a walk with my good Ol’ friends Oscar and Ailish, we saw a handful of kids playing soccer in a run down, full of water blacktop court near the lake. Little did the kids know, we would take their invite to play (in a dress). 
We met up with older, (less hood, more experienced soccer players the following day as well which was a great workout but my hearts still with the hood kids wearing their fathers crocks and long Johns). 
Janel showed up in Granada, with eager eyes and a mind set on volcanos, monkeys and partying. So.. despite the hurricane or “tropical storm” that’s exactly what we did. 
Taking a boat on a scenic hour tour around hundreds of mini islands, some housing single mansions, some housing a few trees, we road around until we found the monkeys that were calling to Jays heart. Here we fed a few monkeys and got to watch them jump and swing from tree to tree.
Overall fun town but don’t need more than 4-6 days.
Las Piñatas or turtle island was a blast. It was also a blast to get there.. Leaving Leon and splitting a cab with a random NYer I met while leaving my hostel was great.. that cab took us to one beach where I stay the night it was pretty uneventful until the morning came and I found a cow on the beach while walking…
They take quite some time to get into the water, but, this is when they find their grounds and GPS because when they are old enough to have baby turtles themselves, they’ll return to that exact beach. Pretty neat..
Anyway, Ailish went out with me, we had a few drinks, I helped a drunk 20 year old to the bathroom where she puked all down my leg, found her friends and got her a cab, sniffed glue (again accident), had a hamburger and went to bed. It was pretty much a typical night in buffalo, eh? 
It’s pretty cool, and I wish that the tour guide didn’t put fear in my eye before going or I would have gone faster. I was clocked at 36mph, but know at one point I was going faster. The fastest person was clocked was 54 which is pretty nasty.
We pretty much learned don’t drink shit white rum all night and book a tour for the morning after. And that there’s no sugar in this rum. And buy expensive 24year old rum. (Why did I do this tour, i don’t even drink rum. #russiantripforvodka) Also, this is what I actually looked like..
So the rest of the town was cute and full of giant churches that I have noting to say about so here are some cool pictures. 
The Americas, Putas 