Apartamentos Turisticos El Que Te Dije 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 ...

... and her friend, Rob flew to Spain to join them for Thanksgiving. They stayed in the coastal village of Nerja, so they were just down the road from us. They came in on the afternoon of Thanksgiving, so we decided to have our dinner on Friday (it was still Thursday in parts of the US, so we felt OK about it). Given that we didn’t have an oven, and there were no turkeys to be had in Spain, we had a truly Spanish ...

... before us. So there we were, an American with a 17 kilo pack pulling groceries in a cart, an Australian with a 20 kilo pack and a day pack, and an elderly Spanish woman muttering something. I'm sure we were a sight.

We finally made it to our hostel, which was lovely. It was like a Spanish villa with hanging flowers and Spanish tiles. We set our stuff down and started our tour of the city. We went to plaza Isabel ...

... tinto verano and were given these Spanish Omelet sandwiches with ketchup and some white sauce on them. They weren't too bad, but kind of weird. I then got an Alhambra beer, Wiz got another tinto, and Rebeca got a Corona. The tapa that we got with it was meatballs with bread and french fries. They were pretty good too. The alhambra beer had a little bit of a bitter aftertaste, but did taste familiar. I couldn't place it ...

... and some tapas (free in Granada with every order!). Afterward we met up with the group at a restaurant where we smoked a few flavors of hookah before calling yet another early night. Hookah has a mellowing effect (similar to chamomile tea) which made me sleep like a baby. I woke up in the morning refreshed and ready to enjoy the heat. We had breakfast, checked out, and took a walking tour of the city guided by Carlos on which we saw the city ...

... a small courtyard.  The Alhambra (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alhambra) can be seen clearly from this courtyard but if you take the steps up to the veranda above my apartment, the view is totally spectacular.  The valley in between my apartment and the Alhambra appears verdant but to the south you can see the arid landscape that leads to Gibraltar, and hence, Morocco.  Lots of Arabic street names (with the Arabic spelling alongside the ...

... Spaniards, peppered with whatever Spanish words or phrases he can think of at the time. Despite his impressive language proficiency I was still able to teach him a thing or two about Spanish on our night out in Cordoba...'Hey! Hey Rob! How do you say '*******' in Spanish?!?' Jona was going to rent a car in Granada and we planned to meet up after I ride my ass down there. 9,562,548,763 olive trees later I was in Granada. We picked up the car, piled a ...

... schedule. I am expecting the start of the academic year will take me out of vacation mode, something that I can't seem to shake (because I love vacations!) Tuesday I sat down with an advisor to register for my Fall classes and I was happy how it worked out. I will have two- two hour classes Monday through Thursday and then 3 day weekends! Sweet huh? I will have two language classes: Variations of Spanish and a Linguistics course and ...

... bar and ordered drinks you were served croquettes (fried potato dumplings), jamon, or little bocadillos (small sandwiches) for free! This, however, is misleading, as compared to Sevilla the drinks in Granada were a little more expensive. Tapas actually began as free appetizers that Spanish bar owners gave to patrons when they came to their establishments, so it was nice to see that this tradition was still being practiced somewhere.. The food paled in comparison to ...