Elba Costa Ballena Hotel Rota

Playa Bellena...that's where we spent our lazy Sunday. Manu drove Minds, Han, and I to the beach. While he went surfing we layed out in the sun. Minds and I were brave enough to go into the water and build a sand castle. We got a ton of looks from the locals because they thought it was wayyy too cold to be wearing a suit and going in the ocean! ...

Hello again! Thanks for all the comments, I'm happy it's so easy to share these pictures and stories with everyone. So the first weekend is winding down now, and it was quite a weekend. On Friday our two teachers took us on a tour through the city- a lot of fun, and we definitely needed the help with our horrible senses of direction. Anyways, we...

Cadiz.... quelle agréable surprise ! Cette ville m'a conquit avant même d'être arrivé. Cette longue bande de route qui mène à elle m'a laissé le temps pour exciter mon imaginaire; et quelle joie qu'elle fut à sa hauteur. Tout est à voir, à goûter, à sentir dans cette ville ! Et l'eau saline de l'océan se détecte depuis le parvis de la cathédrale.

Hello again!
As I said previously, I'm going to jump around a bit and not just go day by day in this blog. Therefore, this entry begins on September 19th on a train heading to Cadiz, Spain. This was my first adventure in Spain with my friends outside of Cordoba, my first excursion.
Honestly, I can't even remember exactly how I met all...

So today we didn't have an excursion because we had our own private tour guides in Rachel's host family from three years ago. They met us at the pier and were so happy to see Rachel it was great! They took us on a walking tour of historic Cadiz and we had breakfast at one of their places they like and we had churros an coffee with milk. Loly kne...

Zaterdag ben ik samen met Magdalena, Rasmus, Sven, Baffi en Martin naar Rota gegaan. Das een dorpje aan de kust van Cádiz, zoals er hier vele witte dorpjes zijn. We hebben de bus genomen om 10u en daar wat rondgewandeld, vooral langs het strand en beetje in de straatjes gewandeld en zo naar het Kasteel (=Castillo de Luna) gelopen en dan zijn we ...

Terug van weggeweest Wat kan het leven je mee zitten, we zijn de grootouders van Isabella geworden en hebben met volle intentie de laatste weken van de zwangerschap van Marieke en de geboorte van Isabella van nabij mee gemaakt. De eerste foto's, de eerste bezorgdheid, de thuis komst, het eerste badje, een Marieke die steeds steeds sterker wordt ...

Sólo hay una semana de vaciones este verano... y ya estamos a Viernes!! Cantabria ha estao fenomenal... quedan dos caminos: Volver a casa, o visitar a unos buenos amigos en Rota. ¿Volver a dónde? ... Esta claro que el coche se va solo a Rota. Unas horitas al volante, música en el CD, sol radiante, el radar de la Guardia Civil respostando en la g...

I woke up with a bit of a sore throat and realized that I am on the verge of a sicky. Noooo! Not now! So I pretty much rested and worked. I tried to keep as low profile as possible and even skipped the walk on the beach. It gets really really windy here so I know it would just make my ears hurt. Later on, I made Bananas Flambe for the guys and t...

I woke up early to find that I had done a good job of warding off the buggers but the rest of my room had not been so lucky. Jen, Sam and Erin sat around comparing bites while I did a little bit of work from my bed. We were all chatting when we heard the rain return and not just a little. It was pounding down and sounded more like hail than a he...