Hotel Puerta De Las Granadas

Thanksgiving...Spanish style

... we have been invited back to my homestay to eat dinner with my host mother and my roommates. I am extremely excited for Mom, Torrey and Scott to see where I've been living and get a better sense of what a typical day is like for me here in Madrid. Though I'm sad to see everyone head out in the next 2 days I have enjoyed my week very much. Its hard to believe that in a little over 3 weeks it'll be me getting on the plane to head back to the states. I'll write again soon!

Granada, Andalusia, Spain and Canary Islands warrmb7

The Alhambra

... style="">mosaics everywhere

rooms with arched ceilings with thousands of sculptures in the ceiling

Ceilings representing the 7 levels of heaven in Muslim Culture

The Fountain of Lions

The Grand Pool reflecting the main tower

If you ever get to the south of Spain, do not miss the Alhambra. We found it to be a very long day, but one we that will be a lasting memory of our trip.

Granada, Andalusia, Spain and Canary Islands jennyandpaul2

To the Alhambra...

... of vino and a few hands of WHOT, it´s off to bed.

20 Nov
We awake to a chilly yet sunny Granada morning and decide to bus it into town. We are accompanied for the day by Amanda and Gavin a Scottish couple currently living in Barcelona. Alighting from the bus in town, we head up the hill to the Alhambra, which turns out to be a wonderful visual experience comprising of extensive gardens and a number of interconnected palaces. The ...

Granada, Andalusia, Spain lymandannabelle

the amazing Alhambra

We woke up to pounding rain. Ugh! So, much for our vacation weather karma. We planned to visit Alhambra today and nothing was going to stop us, not even a little rain. It was ugly, though. Shae was wet, cold and cranky and we hadn't even arrived yet. We had to stand in line for 20 minutes in the pouring rain to get our tickets. It wasn't a great start. But, once we got inside, it was amazing ...

Granada, Andalusia, Spain stacicheck

Granada, Sevilla, and The Rock of Gibraltar

... was HUGE, cheap drinks, full of people, awesome music being played everywhere by guitarists and singers jamming out, just awesome. And we made it just in time. The show was realllly good, even though it was only 15 minutes long. Flamenco has to be THE most intense form of dance ive ever seen, like its jsut crazy, so much foot work almost like clogging or step dancing or some version of tap, lots of percussion work between the dancer, singer and guitar player, its just so cool. Dont ...

Granada, Andalusia, Spain and Canary Islands sromanuck

A Moment-ous Day

... over the loud speakers. The Rock of Gibraltar is so much more than just a rock. In a matter of hours, it became a turning point for us, not only geographically (as we would now head back North) but personally, oh and it has monkeys that are thought to have emigrated from Africa via the bottomless gorge in the cave. All too awesome and all completely unexpected. We headed out to Granada. We rolled into Granada about 7:30. Right at the same time ...

Granada, Andalusia, Spain and Canary Islands teemoshi

eating spanish style

... out why i have not seen more pomegranates in this city.  even if they are almost out of season, it seems strange that there were so many in istanbul (which was not much warmer or dryer than granada), and yet i haven't seen a single one since arriving in granada.  readers of this blog probably know that granada is the spanish word for pomegranate (i didn't until i got here).   wonder, did anyone else read israel regardie's "garden of ...

Granada, Andalusia, Spain and Canary Islands stereognostic

Cabra - Granada 114km

... per la sua gentilezza e professionalitā. Priego poi č bellissima. Ha un centro storico delizioso, tutto di casette bianche, con un labirinto di vicoletti meravigliosamente fioriti. Uno spettacolo unico. Altro che Calle de las Flores! Gli abitanti del pueblito ci scortano all'interno dei vicoletti, un vecchietto addirittura dentro casa sua. Questo sarebbe il paese perfetto per mia madre, che adora questo genere di cose, ma devo ...

Granada, Spain bobbyw2345

6. Resa mot Granada

... drack en öl i eftermiddagssolen på en uteservering och senare åt vi en fantastiskt god middag på en mysig restaurang. Imorgon skall vi besöka Alhambra och Generalife innan vi åker till Marbella. Goda nyheter: vi har fått vårt första barnbarn. Ylwa har fått besked om sin adoption. En liten pojke, född den 11 nov 2006 - 3 månader gammal drygt - väntar i Hanoi på att bli hämtad senare i vår. Han skall heta Axel, efter gammelmorfar!

Granada, Spain anitah