Hotel Rural Cortijo Amaya Málaga

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!

... Spanish holidays. Most of them seem to be related to the church. It's interesting how today it seems like the church plays such little role in peoples lives but in the past it is what dominated most aspects of society. Back to today. I knew it was Thanksgiving but it sure as heck didn't feel like it. At school the teachers didn't bring up the subject or cut us any slack. The weather was kind of rainy today so that helped. It didn ...

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

... and her friend, Rob flew to Spain to join them for Thanksgiving. They stayed in the coastal village of Nerja, so they were just down the road from us. They came in on the afternoon of Thanksgiving, so we decided to have our dinner on Friday (it was still Thursday in parts of the US, so we felt OK about it). Given that we didn’t have an oven, and there were no turkeys to be had in Spain, we had a truly Spanish ...

... 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 ...

... I just overwhelm myself. I really need to work a system out where I slowly learn a few words per day. I have also been very overwhelmed by my classes. They are straight up intensive Spanish classes at the Universidad de Malaga Curses de Espanol para Extranjeros and it really is intense. Some of my professors don't even speak English. I don't have a problem with that but I have a problem when I am trying to learn the tenses and the rules ...

... worst of the whole trip. The first or second day I said to Pablo I had enough to do just thinking and my mind would have me preoccupied sufficiently when he asked if I was bored, but today that didn´t really seem to apply. My thinking mainly led to a whole bunch of points of annoyance: my eagerness to go to the park and not having the possibility, the fact that television was on 7h straight, my demotivation to go to the center to do something else in stead, not having eaten any ...

... t save this hostel from overcharging for the thinnest mattress in the world. Posada de las Almas, Zaragoza: The accidental approach to customer care didn´t make up for the lack of electricity, television and lightbulbs. Hotel Duna, Saigon : Just don´t stay there. Five Things to do....and enjoy New Zealand: Taking a helicopter and a stroll around the Fox Glacier China: Trekking Tiger Leaping ...

Yeah, finally - I deserve a vacation in Malaga - that is for sure! After working hard in Valencia and watching kids all day long - doing freaking homework with them and letting them go on my nerves....for sure I deserve it! I took a bus to Madrid - and then a bus to Malaga. 10 hours...no idea why I didn't fly...I should have since I had a horrible experience on the way: We come close to Madrid as we had this couch accident - hitting a truck - at least ...

... fresh bread from the corner market and more of the infamous San Miguels. We follow it up with a siesta lasting until 8. It should end up being a long night and could be dangerous for the unprepared. Visions of Pamplona come screaming to mind, the fallen laying curled in the gutters, the staggering youth befouled with inexperience and Sangria. The Spanish know how to party. It could get hairy. We take the public bus into the fairgrounds (its probably safer ...