Dauro Granada

... only the lions were gone for restoration, so the courtyard was empty. But the views were incredible.
That night we hiked up through the Albayzin (the moorish quarter) to catch the sunset from St. Nicholas Church. Everyone comes up, hangs their feet over the edge, has a beer (or bottle of wine in our case), and enjoys the sunset.
After all that walking, it was tapas time. Right around the corner from the viewpoint was our first stop at Bar ...

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... but 'refreshing’)…..then a hot pool…..then the largest warm-water pool. They all have Corinthian columns and rounded arches around the pool , like a cloister, and a barrel vault overhead with 8-sided stars cut into the ceiling. They let out the steam, lighten the roof weight, and let in shafts of sunlight. The place does have atmosphere. Underground tile pipes of hot water keep the floor ...

... t realize feet could move so fast!
After the 2 female and male dancers finished, another older lady
danced. I was told by one of the girls that she was, are you ready
for this, 80 years old! She moved and danced for over 20 minutes.
Isn´t that incredible?

Afterwards, we were invited backstage where the resident worker
told them that I was a Canadian photographer and they all wanted their
pictures taken. It was quite funny ...

When we were leaving Sevilla it was still dark out there, and it was raining so heavily that we made a desperate decision to take off our shoes and march towards the Prado San Sebastian bus station barefoot. We couldn't possibly have chosen a worst time to travel, it was the only day of rain that month, if not that year.

We booked the tickets to the Alhambra in advance for 2:00 pm, because all the morning tickets had already been sold out. We arrived at Granada really ...

... It was quite troublesome to find something suitable, not too expensive but with a private room and breakfast IN the city of Valencia, but I found it. I then went to bed and can´t remember having done much more than trying to sleep, feeling sick and trying to sleep. I am a bit sorry about not having seen the Sierra Nevada, or the Alpujarras, or the university, or basically the city, but at the same time I think if I´ll study in Spain I can go there anytime.

For those non spanish folks that means I have arrived! I am here in Granada.Sitting in my living room typing on myhost sisters computer. How exciting. The past few days have been full and eventful. First my family... I have a host mother and sister here. There are 3 other children all boys all older. One lives in London but he is visiting right now. The others It hink are near by but I dont know... They have been by a few times for food and laundry (boys are the same in ...

... grew up within the fortress walls to supply provisions to the soldiers there. Later, a succession of sultans identified the location as an ideal place for a palace, and each added on to the complex and adjoining gardens. We suspect there was something of a keeping up with the Jones (or in this case Bin Talishis) afoot in the construction of each new palace addition because from what we could tell, the newer structures seemed to out-do thier predicesors in thier ...