Hostal Austria Granada

... dinner. We ended up renting "I Love You Man" through iTunes and allowed it to load while we headed to the main street near our hotel and ate some delicious kebabs. Ufortunately my banking situation has been totally screwed up this past week so Scott has had to foo bill for almost everything, though he commented that he did not mind paying for the kebabs at all because they were so simply delicious (the best I've certainly had in Europe). After dinner we went back ...

After two days of walking the beautiful hills of Frigiliana, we made the trip to Granada so that we could see The Alhambra – the Crown Jewel of Andulusia. The bus trip took us through the Sierra Nevada region of Spain on a beautiful sunny day; it took almost three hours to get there and then another short bus ride to the top of the hill. When we arrived, we purchased our tickets and got 2 audio guides in English. We then entered a world that has to ...

... of vino and a few hands of WHOT, it´s off to bed.

20 Nov
We awake to a chilly yet sunny Granada morning and decide to bus it into town. We are accompanied for the day by Amanda and Gavin a Scottish couple currently living in Barcelona. Alighting from the bus in town, we head up the hill to the Alhambra, which turns out to be a wonderful visual experience comprising of extensive gardens and a number of interconnected palaces. The ...

So much to share! The Spanish tradition of not getting anything done is really starting to weasel its way into my mind and I am finding it really difficult to get more than one thing a day checked off my to do list. So, my apologies for the delay in writing. For this entry I shall group topics so that you can skip around if you get bored!

Halloween

I dressed up as a black cat at school and the kids loved it! While I was teaching my kindegarten ...

... and I can say with confidence that this was some of the best falafel of my life (didn't hurt that it was so cheap). Afterwards, we went back to what might be the best ice cream shop in Spain for a 1 euro cone, demonstrating another reason I love Granada- the abundance of delicious, cheap food. We then went back to the hotel to get on a bus and go to Sevilla!

We arrived in Sevilla around 8:30pm and took a "driving tour" of the city, which really showed us nothing, because the vast ...

3heures et 200k; apres on arive chez claire sa;edi soir aui nous recois avec une bonne biere fraichem soubressade et philadelphia....on reste adiscuter de tout et de rien jusauq pas d heure.. DIMANCHE 3 MAI 2009 GRANADA dimanchem visite de la ville, place sqint nicolas ou il y a ...

... long for the ride, including 3 of our new Dutch girl friends *nd some French/Sp*nish guy who didn't spe*k English so th*t w*s pretty *wkw*rd [turtle] for him. We sh*red some s*ngri* *nd some 'n*rgil*h' *nd h*d m*ny l*ughs, m*inly revolving *round our friend Eric's sweet must*che. In Dutch, it's c*lled * 'sneur' *nd somehow thought th*t hil*rious *ll night. So much to the point th*t we beg*n using it *s * word for cool in our newfound di*lect of Sp*nglish, now ...

... time I got downstairs there was a huge line to check out. It reached literally all the way back to the elevators (25m). What was worse, is that there was only one man at the front desk checking people out. What were they thinking?? How was one guy supposed to check out the 300-something people who all needed to get to the Palacio which was fifteen minutes away? It's not possible, just in case you were wondering. After waiting ...

... another day to consider things, and decided that a santized day-tour of Morocco may just be what I need, and if after going, I was still interested and could handle myself, I would go. The tour was .... I don't want to say awful, so I will use the word "structured". We had no time to ourselves to walk around the Kasbah or the market areas, unless you count the time that I refused to go into the spice shop to learn ...