Hotel Alcala Plaza Alcala De Henares

... kids and transformed at least half of the students into...really tired kids trying hard to win a prize. They were great. Finally we got to go back to the hotel and...take our suitcases up to the rooms, sit for 10 minutes and come back downstairs to try to make our dinner reservation. We didnīt make it and the hotel wouldnīt answer the phone. It was fine. They are used to ISE groups. The kids ate typical tapas from ...

... Dead? Working? In the city square passing the time with the other local men? At the bar drinking and chatting up their friends? Itīs hard to know. By the way, wine isnīt considered an alcoholic drink as it is in the U.S., but just another beverage to be enjoyed at all times of the day and night. Iīll drink to that! Okay, time to talk about a few interesting pilgrims we have seen. Today it was ...

... to Tablao El Arenal (rumoured to be one of the best in Seville and subsequently Spain) to purchase some tickets for the show on that night. We then had to kill a few hours before the show so a bit more wandering around was in order in addition to enjoying a real ice-cream whilst basking in the sun in one of the plazas. We then stopped off at an internet cafe to arrange accommodation and transportation to Granada - which again proved difficult to the popularity of the city during ...

... another very worthwhile experience. But this time I also had list of questions for them which they loved answering for me, I learnt so much that class about the area to which I had come to( I admit that I had no idea!) In the same class ther was a gentleman whos name was Petta who kept asking me if Liked cheese, if we had nice cheese in Aus, and finally would I like to go to visit his Cheese factory the next day, I jumped at the oppotunity! I went out for ...

... my sister) im not ****** anymore. So since I'm naturally an extrovert when I'm in situations where I don't know anyone in short order I had put together a group of people whose names still escape me. Anyways, in total, there were 6 of us. We decided we wanted to go out yesterday because we had hung out all day and wanted to continue into the evening. Well following the advice of a really stupid counseler at the university we decided to meet at the metro ...

Hello family, Here is my first email on culture and stuff. The people are sweet, love Americans, hate Bush. Alcala is super neat mixture of old and new. City was founded on the university in the early 1200's, so the district around my classes is super old. Dope, enormous, beautiful Catholic churches, super cool architecture on all the other buildings. The surrounding areas around the school are very modern, pretty affluent. Really safe nice area. Lots of people live here and ...

... photo exhibit while I waited, so I did. Finally at 5:00 I got a guided tour. Since I was the only one there, it was very personalized, and it was interesting to see the work in progress; I also got to talk to some of the workers, one of which was a recent graduate of the school. He was hoping to finish a tapestry before leaving on vacation in August. Since I haven't had a lot of time constraints, I've been walking to a lot of places. The location of my apartment is great for ...

... not being able to enjoy the party. The tour guide mentioned that only 20 applicants passed this exam in 250 years, making the university authorities eventually revise the difficulty of the exam. I thought about the nervous crises I would have suffered if I had gone through something like that. Next we moved to the University chapel where the tomb of the Cardinal Cisneros was. This was the most expensive tomb in the history of tombs in Spain...even more so ...

... prevously indicated, Rococo style - all gilt, curls, marble and endless detailing - gives me a bloody headache! This palace of which we only saw 28 out of 2800 rooms, was rococo incarnate. Every square inch of space had gold on it, was covered with mosaic tiles, featured precious wood inlay and was priceless - I tell you if the peasants had seen this little lot, it would have been Viva La Revoluįion a hell of a lot earlier than 1937! The most interesting room, was ...

... s not forget that when you're involved in such a large scale trip as a one-year long RTW, you can't really tell where exactly you'll be in 6 months ahead, or how long you'll want to stay in each destination. Mind you, you DO can re-issue your tickets mid-trip, but that costs 100 dollars each time, which adds up pretty fast if you keep changing your plans. Advantage of these packages? they probably cost half the price than if you bought individual one-way tickets as you go. Buying up ...