Hotel Alixares Granada

... show I went to Jess, JoJo, Brandi, and Andrew to a bar. It was neat, free tapas again and there were all Spaniards...not a single other American. This was good news because as I heard from a maid in Madrid and from the study abroad office at CSU, Granada is full of Americans. I felt like everywhere I went in Granada there were American students. While you can learn Spanish and speak Spanish to all the locals, which there are hundreds of thousands ...

... white wine into our glasses full of red wine and vice versa which surprised me a little because I thought mixing different types of wine was against the rules all things wine! hmmmm, I suppose he is the bodega owner, not me!<br> <br>A small family came in (older parents and two daughters our age) and a different man picked up a guitar from behind the bar. The man began playing at the bar right next to us and the whole family started clapping flamenco ...

... following day 5 teachers were out sick so Juan was unable to come with me but Fernando accepted my proposal without a hitch! But there was another problem...<br><br>On Fridays I teach 6th grade for 1 hour 45 minutes and that is my work day. The 6th graders were going to be out on a field trip so the teacher told me they didn´t have class. Carmen stopped me before I left the office and told me I still needed to come to school even though I didn´t have a class ...

... est en train de s'habituer à entendre cette langue, je comprends de plus en plus, mais j'ai encore de la peine à m'exprimer. <br>Envie de profiter de chaque seconde...<br>les nuits se rafraîchissent et un matin je découvre du givre sur mon chemin des toilettes... ggrrrr... le pipi du matin devient la première expédition de la journée!!<br>Je passe mes matinées à travailler dans la ferme, beaucoup de désherbage, y a un côté méditatif ...

... t realize feet could move so fast! <br>After the 2 female and male dancers finished, another older lady<br>danced. I was told by one of the girls that she was, are you ready<br>for this, 80 years old! She moved and danced for over 20 minutes. <br>Isn´t that incredible?<br><br>Afterwards, we were invited backstage where the resident worker<br>told them that I was a Canadian photographer and they all wanted their<br>pictures taken. It was quite funny ...

... be due to my talent for eating in a proper manner. (I try to eat decent but end up with a VERY runny nose so a lot of toilet paper in one nostril here and there, couscous all over the place, my hair in the couscous and basically I attack food in stead of eating it, so well). It did cost me 18 euro included the tip, for first course, main course, dessert and a chai tea, so I am not going to do this every day. A pity they didn't have a description of all the ...

... I can´t even explain to you how good it was. Another night of socializing and a couple bottles of wine. That was Granada, pretty uneventful but after Barcelona, I needed a couple days of doing very little. Its funny, Italy has a traveling circuit that most people do, Rome, Florence, Pisa, Cinque Terre, and Venice. Spain is no exception, San sebastain, Barcelona, Granada, and Seville. I wasn´t about to deviate from everyone else, or was I???????????????????

... is the Palace and private gardens. They actually tell you on your ticket which half hour you are able to enter that part of the compound. We had the 1pm - 1:30pm time slot. As it was 8am, we had some time to kill. However there is so much to see up there, that by the time we got through the stunning Generalife retreat, the impressive Alhambra museum, the seemingly endless impeccably groomed gardens, and had some overpriced snacks, we ...

Good news: Fire's out. I've changed my schedule to allow for max travel. So I will get off work at 3 or 4 on monday then I don't have to be back at the hostel until 8PM on thursday. Good stuff eh. I'm off attempt to burn my pics onto CD. This will be my fourth attempt. Aparently I have a strange memory card. Ug ...

... durante 1 año.<br><br><br><br>Luego del desayuno nos pusimos en marcha hacia esa magnífica obra de arte que es la Alhambra. Un poco de historia nos dirá que fue el último bastión árabe que perduró en España y el objetivo entre ceja y ceja que poseían Fernando e Isabel durante la Reconquista de la península. También cabe agregar que es uno de los pocos lugares del mundo árabe en el que hay dibujadas figuras humanas (la religión musulmana ...