Hotel Torrepalma
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Let's call this the "halfway there" entry
... was involved, lets face it, life was pretty great. I had someone cooking every meal for me and taking care of the house. Even in school, I was studying among a group of people my age who had all come to Spain to travel, party, meet new people and have an awesome time. Everything was new and shiny and pretty. All I had to do was soak it in, and then go home after about four months.
This ain't no fairy tale land anymore. That's not to ...
I've found a home and climbed a mountain
... water and our clothes deportista (athletic). The journey to the edge of the city and base of the hill took about an hour, mostly uphill. From there, we left civilization and went into the dessert and woods of the mountain. At 85 degrees and sunny, it was quite the venture. We spent about two and a half hours walking up the side of the mountain. People driving by in cars stared at us like we were maniacs.
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Besuch der Al-Hambra
... war es für mich wieder überraschend, wie lebendig und menschengefüllt die Strassen noch gegen Mitternacht sind...
Unsere Ankunft am Samstagabend bedeutete, dass die meisten Pensionen und Hostels schon completo, also ausgebucht waren. Nach ei***** Zeit konnten fanden wir jedoch noch in günstiger Lage in der Pension Navarro ein erschwingliches Doppelzimmer, in dem wir uns zur grossen Verwunderung der Rezeptionistin zu dritt einquartierten.
Fair ...
En la fortaleza roja a.k.a., al-Qasr al-Hambra
... iglesia, y los baños en los cuales se hacía la ablución previa al rezo.
Cuando salimos del complejo, nos tomamos el bus 32 hasta el barrio Albaicyn, el barrio árabe de Granada. Pasamos a hacer Salat por la Mezquita Mayor de Granada que tiene una vista hermosa de toda la ciudad, al lado del Mirador de San Nicolás… después bajamos por la calle del Chapíz hasta ver las "teterías" y los baños árabes. Con Ami queríamos ir de Tapas pero en la calle Elvira donde están la ...
Granada
... go to work. First he made our hot chocolate and it was incredible. Then he went into a side room and we could see him mixing up fresh churro dough in a huge bowl. Later we saw him take it out of the fryer, but instead of short strips, it was in one huge spiral that he snipped apart as he plated them. The three of us were all thinking the same thing- I hope he's not giving us that entire churro. But of course he did. He gave us a plate with at least 15 pieces of churro piled on top ...