Presidente Hotel Granada

... and having some native spanish speakers!) and wish we were going to the same cities, but we´ll take their advice when we get to Seville.

For now, we are off on our Honeymoon. We arrived in Costa del Sol saturday night and since then have been lying on the beach (or by the pool, to switch things up) all day long. This is the most work we´ve done in a day... don´t expect a blog post from Costa del Sol. But stay tuned for stories from Morocco!

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... to see the fountain that one sultan stacked 36 heads of family he’d killed in order for his favorite son to inherit the throne after him; we got to be in the room where Christopher Columbus presented his voyage idea and terms to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabel; we got to see the royal gardens, etc, etc…

Right now the whole town is pretty much closed down (except for some restaurants). It’s siesta time between 2 and 6pm here. Everyone closes up shop ...

... water hot, fed by slaves (this society like most operated off slavery).

Three days was just right for Granada. Next morning, we’ll leave for the airport (3 Euro bus) and pick up our Ford Fusion to drive 83km east/south to the coast and our next stop: Nerja. It will be a day at the beach and to collect stones in the Med. The Romans called it Mare Nostrum – or Our Sea.

Buenos noches,

... to the residence. I had more
laundry to do, sorted through some of my pictures and sent some email.

To save a bit of money, I decided to make some pasta here at the
residence. I went to the local grocery store and picked up a few
vegetables. Dinner was delicious. I have enough leftovers now for a
few days.

I went out afterwards, since the ...

... We headed up a steep hill to the historic Arabic neighbourhood, through various small squares and eventually winding our way to a large open square, high on a hill.  The square backed on to a church, its pristine white walls topped with a reddish brown tiled roof and a large bell tower.  The other side of the square was filled with what we came for - the Alhambra, a 700 year old Moorish castle and palace complex topped the hill opposite to the one where we ...

... streets below us. We purposely woke early to try and get into one of the greatest accomplishments of Islamic art and architecture, the Alhambra. To our surprise when we arrived around 6am there already was a decent line and every minute that went by it grew. It became quite entertaining to look at peoples faces at the line as they arrived. The Alhambra books out weeks in advance and I had not realised. Our only chance of getting in was to cue on the day as they only ...

... and the flight into Granada, not only did I not have an opportunity to change my USdollars for Euros (pronounced AEY-YOU-ROHS) meet up with 2 other girls traveling to Granada, but our bags didn't arrive. So we spent over an hour at the airport filling out lost baggage claims....even though they had no idea where our luggage was at or when we could get it. It was weird, because they lost EVERYONE's luggage who was an ...

... be going nuts. I WAS WRONG! There was one section near the field that was the loudest section and then there was Manuel, Francisco and myself. I can't understand why the crownd wasn't as into the game as I thought they would be. There was even a spectator that was plugging his ears because we were making to much noise! (A little background info: the cali group is here in spain studying in Granada.) They've been telling me i should go so that's how i picked my next ...