Helios Hotel Almunecar

... was perched almost on the top of the mountain. Upon arriving in Frigiliana by bus, we had to hike through the entire village and then take another 600 steps up the steep side of the mountain. It afforded us beautiful views, incredible peace and quiet, and plenty of exercise. Avocado, olive, lemon, and orange trees surrounded the area. It was a wonderful place to rest and relax during Thanksgiving week.

Paul's cousin ...

... je dors dans une caravane, dans le jardin, j'ai une casita, c'est chouette!  J'investis très rapidement les lieux... Ca me fait beaucoup de bien de me poser dans un endroit si calme, et rempli d'une belle énergie de vie! La vie simple de la campagne me plaît.. A côté de la caravane, se trouve une douche solaire (yeah!) et des toilettes sèches!! décidément y a tout pour me plaire ;-) J'essaie de parler espagnol, je sens que mon ...

After all the driving yesterday, we decided we didn't want to get in the car and drive anywhere today. So we spent the whole day at the beach. Shae played with several new friends from the uk. She was digging in the sand for about 4 hours. I don't even think she made it to the water. It was a very relaxing day. Later we drove into a nearby ...

We decided to make today another Shae day. We headed to the beach early and rented a couple of chairs with an umbrella. You know how hard this is for mike and i. we are not beach-goers. but Shae was so excited to build sand castles and play in the water. We lasted close to 2 hours. it was nice. Mike got to catch up on his spanish cards and i finally got to start reading a book on my kindle. We ate lunch at an outdoor cafe and met the owner, Michel from ...

... through the windy mountain roads, Mike found an awesome place to run. He drove us back to the house and set out for a 12 mile run through the mountains. he loved it. We headed into Burriana for dinner and planned to eat at Ayo a good paella restaurant recommended by Susan, who helped us with the house. Unfortunately, Ayo was closed for the evening so we walked around looking for another place to eat. We came upon a little cafe that served Thai/Indonesian ...

After getting in late the night before we got a pretty late start the next morning The place where we're staying is a 5 minute walk to Burriana Beach. A very popular beach in this area. The weather has been incredible our entire trip 70s and 80s the whole time. Apparently, this is unusual for this time of year here. It's tends to be a bit cooler. But the beaches are full of sunbathers even in mid-October. We really picked a good time to ...

... Hostal. Our room was small, air-conditioned (you could hang meat in there at 3am), and just 40 Euros. A steal.

Back on the road tomorrow for Ronda, one of the oldest towns in Spain with pre-historic cave drawings in the area. It’s about 45km inland, over those mountains. John, if you go to Maui later, take the drive to Hana…..it’s kinda the same as this drive.

... Granada is the 3rd most noise polluted city in Europe or something like that but had not realized that I had really not been in silence for soooo long. It was AWESOME! That about summarizes that adventure... It was a lot of walking the 4 streets ;) Things are winding up here wtih finals (the first was today), papers, goodbyes etc. sooo that said if you do not get email response quickly I ...

Alright, so this is kindof a double entry...and is going to take me a lot of time to write; which I don't have since I have a paper to write tonight and a Presentation in my intensivo class to prepare for and give on Tuesday. So.... Sorry if it's short. On Saturday we woke up rediculously early, having gone to sleep at around 4 in the morning the night before because we finally discovered the place where all the college students hang out before ...

... shooting I have been thinking about cropping a lot. And, unlike some people I know who say they will and don't, I am taking my studies and trying to work ******* the digital images for practice. I will be cropping when I print my book images because I originally intended on shooting square here anyway, so it wont hurt my feelings (or images) too much :) I was FORCED to shoot rectangular, it's not my preference! Tonight I am going to try to catch some flamenco-there has to be ...