Hotel Jimesol Nerja

After days at sea we had a short stop in Malaga before docking the next day back in Savona. I have decided that I am not crazy about the days at sea. Even though I really enjoyed all the ports, I don't think I would do anther big curise. The fact that there were only small number of people who spoke enlgish on the ship was interesting. So wanted to speak another language .. any lanaugage. Even when I told the Germans I did nto speak Germann they kept talking!

... last time I ate that good. I had so much I thought I was going to get sick. It was a real good night. Even though we are so far from home and the traditional Thanksgiving (which is my favorite holiday...food and it's not commercialized), it felt a little bit like home. We laughed a lot. At the end I told the woman who I assume owns the restaurant that it was very good and I could tell she appreciated hearing that. She also told me ...

Malaga is the major city near Frigiliana (where the train dropped us off). We spent a day there when we picked up Jaime and Rob at the train station. Some highlights:

• Watching Jaime and Rob come off the train and meet us in Spain
• The Picasso Museum – a wonderful ...
  Málaga, Andalusia, Spain and Canary Islands jennyandpaul2

... the train was ready to begin its journey, the small TV turned on and a safety film was shown, after all, we were going to be traveling at almost 200 miles per hour! Our train traveled most of the time at speeds of 300 km per hour (or just about 190 miles per hour). Spain has some beautiful countryside! There are mountains, ocean views, vineyards, small villages, and deserts. We traveled through all of these areas. Aside from ...

... girlfriend, Maria. Alex reminds me of my high school Spanish teacher. They got some mojitos at a bar but they did not like them so Alex went back in and bought a beer. Maria asked the bartender about the mojitos and why they taste different and the bartender told her that they mixed it with a different kind of soda because they didn’t have any more of the usual kind. So there we were standing in the street drinking and he was ...

... travail, je peux laisser mes pensées venir puis les laisser s'en aller... je récolte du maïs, puis désherbe le champ à la pioche; je grimpe dans les arbres pour cueillir des oranges (mmmhhh que de bonnes odeurs et de goûts délicieux); je désherbe un canal pour amener l'eau de la montagne dans les champs; je récolte du basilic, des amandes et je fais du pesto maison!!! mmmhh que c'est bon d'être en contact avec la terre qui me nourrit...

... store, not as good as costco but still pretty good. i have been making soups with chicken and veggies and noodles, a nice salad, some spanish rice too. we've been enjoying drinking the spanish red wines here which are very cheap, we actually found a bottle at the local market for EUR1.00 which is roughly usd1.51; take that two buck chuck! it was definitely drinkable and cheaper than soda!! terry found a steal at the local super sol grocery market, eur.17 a can of beer ...

First destination was Nerja, which all the guide books said was the first reasonable place (i.e. not ruined by tourism) north of Malaga. After a pretty boring bus ride, I humped my backpack off and headed for a taxi, but the driver said my Hotel was only five minutes away and gave me directions how to walk there. Ten minutes later I was lost, but some helpful people pointed me in the right direction and ...

... were the remains of a Roman theater. After walking around the cathedral and stopping in two free museums, we caught a bus to Nerja. Nerja is a quaint little coastal city. I went swimming in the sea and slept on the beach for a bit. Later, Laura and I went to the caves outside the city which are home to the largest stalagtite known to man. The caves were awe-inspring, although filled with far too many tourists. When we returned from the caves, we explored the ...

... The twelve-sided marble fountain rests upon the backs of the lions. Water, so essential as a decorative element acquires here an exceptional importance. It ascends and spills from the basin, which has been compared with the 'sea of bronze' of Solomon's Temple, to the mouths of the lions, from which it is distributed throughout the courtyard. A lovely qasida (ode) by Ibn Zamrak circles the rim of the basin. Four large halls border the courtyard. The first, entering from the Court of the ...