Prestige Lucena

... to see the real country instead of tourist traps, eat with the locals instead of chain restaurants, that way(Thanks Quent, I owe you mate) I have also been so lucky on my trips to China, thanks to my wonderful wife Jo.

A lot of the land around here was used to make the “Spaghetti Westerns” with Clint Eastwood et all

Onwards to the Stone Forest of El Torcal Im beginning to real a touch uneasy now, as the rolling hills start ...

... gone on. Of course he hadn't taken a phone. But I had rehearsed Spanish for "my stupid partner is out on the mountain and probably hurt".
This may put off our trip to Seville until Tuesday - half the places are closed on Monday anyway so I don't mind toooooo much.
Have finally stopped doing chores and started exploring. Last week we did Antiquera (A hidden ...

... you'd spend all your money buying 20 of those bottles to make a decent cup of water, then you'd die of bankruptcy. Bottom line, Spanish cuisine/arhitetcture/city planning/automobile design/basically just Spain selects for the thinnest people, and over the years this has left no fat people here. My theory is airtight, so don't even try and disprove it, by say, finding just one single fat person in all of Spain. You'd be wasting your time.

I woke up this morning in Seville and went over to parents hotel to meet them before we had to head to the train station. We took a quick tour of the Alcazar and loaded up all our bags into a cab and headed to the station. Took the three hour train to Granada. Checked into the hotel and headed out to grab some lunch. Unfortunately the guy at the hotel told us to go to some Irish pub which ...

... was then. (But was that really a year ago? Has twelve months passed since that happened?) I made a point of leaving early in the morning. I wanted to get an early start so that I wouldn't have to kill myself to get to Zuheros before dusk, and I was glad that I did; partway through the day, a ring appeared around the sun...that classic sign that rain is on its way. And I just biked and listened to nothing ...

... be in Barcelona by noon on Friday." (5:30 really, to check-in, but why take chances?) The dude looked at me as if I had just asked him if I could sodomize his only daughter.`How dare I have the audacity to ask HIM for scheduling options?´ I could almost see the thought churning in his head behind the button holes above his nose. Off to the information desk with you, peasant! Geez, sorry. After waiting for a few minutes for someone to show up, a rather helpful gentleman (once we ...

... left in Europe. And there are a ridiculous number of gypsies here. I mean there are gitanos (Gypsies) in Granada, but they kinda stick to their own neighborhood. Here, they are out in full force. And they speak in the whiniest most annoying voice ever. I kinda hate them. I also feel bad for them, becuase they really have no chance in life, but if they didnt use such an annoying whiney voice, maybe i would be more likely to help them.

... one a few feet away... then a ski... then the other ski. 20 minutes later after climbing this beast of a hill, I finally gather my equipment only to do the same move 5 minutes later. But all in all I did very well after that. Just not so good at the whole stopping idea. I guess that our hostel room had a bug problem. The three of my friends had been complaing about being itchy all night, thinking it was just the blankets. Turns out my friend Matt got a ...

... cathedral. It was built in the late 700s during the Umayyad caliphate when Muslims controlled Spain. Later a Catholic cathedral was built in the middle of it. It is several city blocks long and is quite striking to look at. Another part of Cordova we liked was the Old City. The Mezquita was located there and so was our hotel. It is a medieval labyrinth of alleys and attractive white ...

... duly amazed and went home to dinner in our village of La Joya, at the only bar in that town. Had the best time of the whole trip. Ate and drank far too much and the bill was €36. I gave the man €50 and we sloshed back to the villa where the farm dogs barked all night. Monday we had a date at the Al Hambra castle in Grenada, which was truly stunning. We spent the night at our ...