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Leaving Pomegranate City
... bag until our last stop in Barcelona.
At the Alhambra we had a Dutch guide. This maze of buildings is beautiful. He told us how the Moorish court was set up, the nasty in fighting and the structure of the town the was also inside. I loved the tile decoration. The intricate molded plaster with intertwined designs included family mottoes and poetry. It was originally painted but most, ...
This is Happiness
... by the second act. I haven't seen a real flamenco show since I was 14 years old in Sevilla which inspired me to dance flamenco to begin with. The man next to me, who is a guitarist at my school, said to me after the show "tienes flamenco" because he saw how worked up I was. "You have to be a little bit crazy to have flamenco and you've got it," he insisted that I would return after my studies at KU because he could just ...
Granada - Never leave your camera at the hotel!
... so to save time they take the shortest route back, on a main thoroughfare with a higher speed limit.
Just as we are picking up some speed, it starts to rain...
So here we are getting soaked doing about 70 KM/h in an open top bus in the rain, wind tearing through our hair, raindrops splattering our face, tree branches leaping at us from the roadside, water sloshing back and forth across the floor of the bus and listening to a recording telling us ...
Where is the promised land?
... range.
In Cazorla I have spent just one day as my host there offered me the very next day a ride close to the mountains from where I could start walking to the farm. And so I did - I have been walking since 6:30PM in Saturday and I was lying in bed in the farm guesthouse around midnight.
First hour of this march was not bad but as soon as the sun came down it got much more complicated and it was much easier to follow the traces someone did in the ...
Tapas, sewer pipes and mountain views
... collapse into my bunk around 4am, likely smelling of rotten eggs from the sulfur. I should have gone straight up the hill to line up for Alhambra tickets, now that I think of it.
Today, I hike up to Alhambra rather late and in no hopes of getting in. Online tickets were sold out until Thursday when I checked last Wednesday. And other travelers´ told me they lined up at 6am, just to have all remaining tickets snapped up in less than 10 minutes. No point in getting ...
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