places in spain where they re free. all you have to do is keep drinking. you can sit here all day. just order a couple drinks. right. no rush. plan on spending some time here. red wine ordered. tripes to follow. tender, spicy, delicious tripe. sun, plaza, guts. pretty [ bleep ] good. hello. hello! not too long ago, before zach basically defected to spain, he met fuen. the next thing you know, he s living here. part of an extended andalusian family. eating the ham, drinking the wine, living the life of the spanish dandy. in freaking granada, no less. classically, culturally speaking, do you want a sensitive, nice, caring thoughtful guy? well, it depends on the woman, first, but usually we look for this kind of person that we know he will protect us.
overlooking granada, the hillside of sacramonte is riddled with caves, many of them older than anyone even remembers. spanish gypsies have lived here in caves turned homes like this for hundreds of years. they call this a juergas, an informal, intimate and spontaneous performance. what jazz musicians might recognize as a jam session.
also. but in granada, they do it old school. and oh yeah, bullfighting. they do that here, too. but i digress. i m here, actually, to answer a question. what happens if you go over to the other side? say you grew up in the states and, like a lot of us, wondered, fantasized about what it would be like living abroad in old europe, surrounded by crusader castles, delicious food, another language, another culture? what would that alternate life, that road not taken be like? my longtime friend and cameraman from maine, zach zamboni, is finding out. so where are we going? right here, one of these tables. which maybe we want to do like this with? see? how often can you go out with somebody can properly block the table? it s a misery is what it is. oh, boy. ay, yes, of course. snails in an almond sauce. about as traditional and as delicious as it gets. that s a plate full of perfect happiness. great tapas, right? that s right. tapas come from here. this is still one of the few
awesome. great meal. great, great, great. great, great meal. this is the dream of all the world. the dream is to live in granada. work in the morning, have a one-hour nap in the afternoon. at night go out and have that life. go out and see your friends and eat tapa and drink red wine and be in a beautiful place. to have this kind of music and this food and this kind of culture and to look out the window and to see spain. one thing. family. family is very, very, very important. right, see. he did it right. he s marrying into a spanish family in granada. it s cheating, man. he s very lucky. and a smart guy. right. look, no one is going to dare dream of this because this is too much to dream for. this is extraordinary.
this is it. granada, the only place in the world where you get to see real flamenco in a cave. alicea just like everyone in granada is an aficionado. [ speaking foreign language ] our host is a poet, historian, and patriarch of the gitano community here. an icon of the flamenco world. you see travelers, roma people are more embraced by the culture here than most other places in europe. we have our own gypsies. those are ours. yeah. i can tell you three things that we for sure we do here. we do flamenco. we do tapas. and we do siestas. which you do them well. we know how to live, don t