Parador Ronda

... much better today - more well-rested, more her usual cheerful self. Eventually, at almost 1pm, Pas roused himself and we set off for Ronda. It was raining a bit - not too bad, and we took the toll road to almost Marbella, to cut off some time. The road up the hill curvy, not too slow - I had to pass one truck on a short straightaway, but it was otherwise not too bad. As we got to the pass, however, it grew quite foggy, and we were unable to see any of the ...

Surprise! We're going to Ronda. We hadn't planned on it but as we were headed back to Estepona and were looking at the map, it was just sitting there calling to us. We agreed to spend the afternoon. Granada sits atop a plateau and has the most incredible views in all directions across surrounding farm land. This place has that mystical Spanish charm just oozing from every surface. It's history, it's architecture ...

... Obviously I have missed the street that the hostel is on. Now just so everyone has an image of what I look like. I have gotten a few hours of sleep, I am wearing jeans and it´s 15 degrees celsius out, I have a 16kilo pack on my bag a full 20litre day pack on my chest and I am walking up so some SERIOUSLY steep hills not knowing where I am. Got it? Thank the lord I quit smoking or this would be even more brutal. Now I end up asking this DHL delivery man where my ...

... we have to study for the language placement test...but tonight we're going out to celebrate Rick (a guy in our group)'s birthday. Cafe Futbol at 11:30. Things are late here, just like Brasil, which makes me happy. And I'm so glad we finally get to sleep in tommorow! New Vocabulary from last night: Tenedor: Fork Cuchillo: Knife Cuchara: Spoon Love from aqui, -elise- PS. Yes, all my suitcases are here and everything made it intact.

... of previously, in Spanish classes. The best was Las Meninas by Velasquez, because I'd seen that several times in classes, and had had it explained to me. So, I stared at it in awe for a couple of minutes. There were also some Goya paintings that I'd seen before. But, overall, I didn't spend much time in the museum. Next, I went to the Parque del Buen Retiro, which was nearby. It had rained while I was in the museum, so the ...

... on this one, since Friday was a perfect day for all of us to get together. When Larry and Vicki get back from France, they're heading up to the Camino de Santiago to work in a pilgrims' inn that's sponsored by Campus Crusade for Christ. They want to put together a team from the U.S. to walk a week and then work a week at the "albergue," or work a week and then walk a week. Next door to the restaurant was a "peluquería," or barber shop, and since I needed a haircut that was my ...

Okay, as I promised, here is the newly organized photo album of pictures I've taken in my first month here. It's just around Madrid, Spain since I haven't travelled anywhere yet but let me know what you think about them (whether it'd be by e-mail, comments, other forms of communication, etc.), I really would like to hear what you think. Hopefully that will make me feel better and ignore that my data would get lost or deleted thanks in part to faulty internet ...

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... and found it quite busy. The exhibit was very nice and totally worth the 8 euros I paid to get in. They had a few pieces from very early on in his career, one representative from the "blue period," and many of his "collage" pieces. In these, he messed around with perspective, taking the guitar on the table and drawing it in 5 different pieces disconnected and interspersed with the separate pieces ...