Castillo Lanjaron
C/ Granada 1 Lanjaron, Sierra Nevada National Park, Andalusia, 18420, Spain and Canary Islands
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Lumberjack/ walnut cracker/ strimmer/ fireman
We're now at our woofing site 1200m above Lanjaron in the Apuljaras mountain range. We live in our geodesic yurt style tent and occupy ourselves 'wooding' tearing dead wood to pieces and dragging it back to the house; strimming the terraces; shelling walnuts and building lots of fires. We're here for 3 weeks and eat good food in return for our limited skills. We´re now accomplished olive pickers and curers.
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Reyes Magos
... Even when they are in my own language they are not particularly amusing. So, there is only a certain amount of polite forced giggle you can do at jokes that have lost all humor in translation.
Fairly certain today is like Christmas day. Ive seen these ring cakes that Im pretty sure are the equivalent of a christmas cake.. hoping to get my hands on some of that! But it would follow that its a public holiday, so there is no school and there is nothing open. What to ...
First Impression: Spain
... them, on sharing needs and thoughts. It relies on honesty, and
certainly, it does not include being selfish. When you know a good,
solid social life, when you know people you can rely on, people you can
trust, who will never disappoint you, who might even forgive you every
kind of mistake, social life in another city, another country, can
appear to be very shallow. Superficial. And of course, although you are
surrounded ...
Granada
... in its own right, but which featured an unexpected bonus - Isabella´s art collection, including superb works by Rogier van der Weyden, Hans Memling, and Botticelli. A large altarpiece from 1521 by Jacobo Florentino was especially thrilling. Maybe all I needed was that little rest in the square.
It's after 7:00 and my last lonely day in Spain is coming to a close. Tomorrow I'm taking the train to Madrid to reunite with my amazingly successful wife. Thank God.
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Adios Granada :(
... night.) We didn’t have much time (because we were meeting a bunch of friends that hadn’t left Granada yet) so we dropped Jess’s bags, and left again for the old, run-down gas station one last time.
There was a big group of us that wanted to go out one last time, and also since the majority of us were leaving early the next morning, the plan was to sleep as little as possible. I can never sleep on planes so I wanted to be as tired ...



