Hotel Spa Cadiz Plaza Cádiz

... and got ready to go out. Thinking I was back in L.A., I brought a red dress and heels with me. Everyone else had decided that the beach was a casual place, so flipflops and jeans would be perfect. Trust me, you'll notice the contrast in the photo I post! Anyway, we walked around the small city until we settled at a tapas bar. Cadiz is a very small city with little cobblestone streets and antique looking buildings. We walked around the ...

... and Cameron Diaz in it. I hope they get a part! Lunch was interesting and kind of like eating in a Chinese restaurant as the plates just kept coming! After lunch we said goodbye to the sons and continued walking and finally ended up back at the ship but not before taking a rest in the Plaza DE Espana across from the ship. When we were there the park cat ladies came by and fed the wild cats who were pretty friendly. Great ending to a very nice day!

... of the sweetest sherry called "Nectar" for 8 Euro. I really didn’t like their regular sherry though. They were pretty cool though. When celebrities or royalty come visit, they have them sign a barrel of Tio Pepe instead of signing a guestbook! And they have a family of mice that are sherry connoisseurs. One of the distillery ...

... the way we stopped in Olvera so Mike could get his photo of the village and church tower. We arrived to Nerja very late and couldn't plug in the address in our handy-dandy gps - so we had to call the owner in the UK to give us directions. it was kind of late by the time we got to the house (after midnight). ugh! this was a long, long day! But, we're excited to be at the beach for the next 7 days. Shae can't wait to get her feet wet in the mediterranean.

Hola mis amigos~

I have just landed in Cadiz, Spain!  The past 7 days we have been on the ship making our way across the Atlantic Ocean. I hadn't seen any land, a bug, plane, ant, bird in 7 days!! We have lost an hour almost every night, which leads to a lot of naps. We will gain an entire day when we travel from Japan to Hawaii and pass the International Date Line.  That day just happens to be November 26th…which just happens to be ...

... where we bought a few cans of the Cruzcampo beer and a 1.5 L bottle of Tinto de Verano - a type of cheap red wine with lemonade. We went to see the pier with the Castillo de San Sebastian, the Castillo de Santa Catalina, the cathedral, the old town and the beautiful Parque Genoves with waterfalls and parrots, and it was pretty much everything, so we went to the famous la Caleta beach and enjoyed ourselves there.

To my surprise, the beach was full of people ...

... My class begins on the 22nd and I think in general i'm prepared for the 1st one. Not at all for the 2nd one or any others after that.... It's coming a long slowly but surely. I got a list of another 10 names who are on my waiting list and based on the number of in-passing inquiries, I think there will be a few more at the first class than that. *whew*... . makes my head swim just thinking of it. Ok. Off for now. Gotta go to a student meet-n-greet in a few minutes. Sending my love!

... and expect the world to be, and expect the world to WANT to be, like us- in time and order, and see anything else as "less" or barbaric. Conversely, mediterranean europe has its own set of priorities that don't put speed and order first. How much we have to learn from one another. How easily and harshly we judge that which is different from what we are accustomed to. So there are good things about the longest bus ride ever; time to reflect, to watch, inside and out.

... beginnen. We hebben een 1.5 int water gelegen, want surfen kan ik het nog ni noemen haha en kwas echt zo dood erna, ni normaal. MAAR ik vond het wel super plezant, zeker voor herhaling vatbaar! Ik was natuurlijk vergeten om ondergoed mee te nemen. Ik had bikini al aan toen ik daar aankwam en natuurlijk niet aan gedacht, dat da erna nat zou zijn dus ja dan maar kleren over natte bikini en zo nr huis op de fiets. Gingen we nog snel Macdonalds halen om mee te nemen naar huis ...

The Quo Qâdiz hostel is another one of those falling-apart, strange places you either love or hate. The hostel has a lot of personality and charm to it, not only because of the people who run it. There is an elderly woman who speaks nothing but Spanish. However, she is incredibly kind and helpful, and will happily do her best to help you learn more Spanish so that you can ask her for help on a daily basis too. The daily leader is a man, who easily can be described as ...