Los Tilos Granada

... a chain European clothing store that Torrey likes) and we all headed to bed exhausted from the day (though minus the triptophan induced coma of a typical Thanksgiving sleep).
The four of us woke up early the next morning and raced over to the bus station to catch our bus back to Madrid. Luckily the night before Mom and Torrey were able to book the last 2 seats on the bus so we were all able to make ot back to Madrid safe and soundly. For Scott's last night here in ...

After two days of walking the beautiful hills of Frigiliana, we made the trip to Granada so that we could see The Alhambra – the Crown Jewel of Andulusia. The bus trip took us through the Sierra Nevada region of Spain on a beautiful sunny day; it took almost three hours to get there and then another short bus ride to the top of the hill. When we arrived, we purchased our tickets and got 2 audio guides in English. We then entered a world that has to ...

... tapas... wonderful. After a few of these, we caught the bus to Bobadilla, which is a 10min walk to the campsite, and conveniently has a typical Spanish (loud men, even louder women serving) bar, where we continued to consume beer and tapas; 4 rounds later, we had spend just Euros 7 per person and felt sated not just Alhambra (the local beer, very good) but the variety of hearty tapas. We walked back to camp for a well earned sleep.

... of the mountain where for centuries gypsies and now hippies reside, setting up their makeshift homes. We were not able to climb high enough to see them but we did get an amazing view of all the speckles of lights down in the city and up twinkling in the sky.
The next morning at 8 am I trekked up the steep streets to the Alhambra. This palace is beyond descriptions but I will give it a try. Inside every room has the most intricate designs on every wall ...

... into spain. However passport control here is not quite like in Australia. you could walk past the gaurd with a blank piece of paper and he would wave you through!! A few of us contimplated swapping passports just to see if they would pull us up!! haha

Not only that, to get back to Spain you had to physically walk across the Gibralta International Airport runway. They have a big boom gate they put down when a plane is about to land. Weird... so ...

... to dream of lovely Spanish women enticing me with thei--BANG BANG BANG! "Sinners!!!" After determining the time (Carrie has kept her watch set to Texas time, which requires a quick math calculation that I would rather not make at 5 in the morning) we found that it was 8am. We also determined that the knocking had been coming from the wall in the bathroom. Whoops. I felt like knocking apologetically on the wall (which is a soft double rap) but I ...

... s. He was a nice guy, but came off a little, well...not as laid back as our previous teacher. We did some grammar stuff and actually had a 'serious' class for once. This was probably a constructive thing since I have to get ready for real school in Madrid in about 1 and half weeks. The second class was taught by a lady named Francisca who, in all honestly, looked and sounded like she was either sleeping or about fall ...

... but I made it with minutes to spare for most of my trains, all five or six of them, and got to Granada at around midnight on Friday. and missed the bad weather that they had earlier in the day. the plan was to make the run to the beach on Saturday, but the storm more or less destroyed the beach town, and flooded the water with all kinds of ****. a beach day for Sunday was also scraped for these reasons. so the past two days have been spent checking out the old part of ...

... we ended up sharing a room with 2 Korean girls. They were delightful and I could only catch the name of one of them who easily enough was named Sun. The girls kept and eye on our luggage while we went to the dining car and had dinner. Then we all attempted to sleep. Attempted being the operative word. I think I slept the best of all and I still feel bad that my parents weren't able to really enjoy this part of our journey.