Hotel Rallye Granada

... of the small plaza that sold baked goods. It looked so good and there was a line with about six people. On my way back to the hotel and the meeting point I was doing some serious observations and I observed a ´joven´ go slightly out of his way to step on a crunchy looking leaf. I thought that was great. I´m part of this group on facebook that´s called "I will go slightly out of my way to step on a crunchy looking leaf". I myself will do this but I ...

... ridiculous right? Plus with the new schedule I was losing my three day weekend.<br><br>The next day I presented Carmen and Fernando with two different more reasonable schedules schedules to them - In order to get them to talk to me I had to intercept the two in the Teacher´s Lounge while they were getting coffee and ask them if I could talk to them while they were pouring their coffee so that I wouldn´t be wasting any of their precious time. So I began ...

... 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 ...

... due to all the running around.<br><br>Granada is very beautifull, although needless to say we were quite tired when we arrived. We decided to take a siesta which turned out to be a 5 and half hour nap. Last night we went on a tapas tour, free tapas with every drink which is a pretty good deal. We ended the night with a very relaxing arabic baths. There were 7 baths, 1 cold ...

... definitely time to head towards Granada. The new highway that leads from the coast to the inland is partially constructed - it will be quite the road once done - but, at some point, the new construction ends, and one needs to backtrack a ways to reach the old road (which is not all that small, narrow, windy or shabby...must be EU funds). We had good views of the snows of the Sierra Nevada, which was nice, as well as of the marble quarries, which ...

... helpful in helping you to get there. It's quaint going in - you have to go through customs (unlike between France and Spain), then you drive across the runway of the airport, and virtually the first street you see is Winston Churchill Avenue. I drive virtually to the top of the rock and there is a fabulous vista across the strait. For some reason a guy in yellow shorts wanders around an old artillery emplacement making excellent fodder for my camera. It's a weird ...

... tag for our bargain bag we bought in Lisbon. We explored the grocery store in the basement and checked out the food. Then we went back to our hotel.<br><br>Hotel Carmen was probably my favorite hotel of the entire trip. It was nice and modern. We ventured up to the roof where I got one of the most amazing views of my life (Yes, the views were better than those from the Alhambra). I could see all of Granada, with the snowcapped Sierra Nevadas in the background. Of course, I ...

I had always been under the impression that as far as clothing and hairstyles go, Europe is a couple of years ahead of the states. WRONG! If I had a $ for every mullet I have seen since I got to this beautiful city, I would own a house out here by now. For all of you that don't know what a mullet is, just think of Billy Ray Cyruss' hair, short in the front and long in back (a.k.a business in front and party in back) Just don't break my ...

... a train ride ought to be. I will add that the line is not electric and the smell of diesel exhaust seems to be ever present on this ride. After arrival in Granada, we headed to our hotel and unpacked. On the way to the laundromat a really severe downpour/hail combo hit for about 5 minutes and was gone. After doing laundry (for a record setting price of 16euro), we found another record setting price, Internet for only ...

... and nature, which symbolizes Muslim paradise. The palace had impressive reflecting pools as well. The reason the place is so ornately decorated with water is apparently because the moors came from a part of Africa where the water is scarce, so they were apparently very appreciative of the resource after taking over part of Spain. Perhaps the most impressive thing about the Alhambra was the systems of water flow that ran under everything. Most ...