La guía española

The Spanish guide

Home sweet Granada! We went to Ronda and Seville this weekend and the lasting impression was that we are all SO HAPPY to be in Granada. For one thing, you have to pay for tapas in other cities. Seville was not as pretty (though the cathedral, the third largest in the world, was beautiful) and the men were much more forward, even by Spanish standards. And Ronda, also beautiful, was perched on a hill and it would be exhausting to get anywhere. I took about 100 pictures of old medieval and Arabic doors. Ronda is most famous for having the oldest extant bull ring in Spain and an epic bridge. We were split up into groups based on our Arabic art classes. Our professor doesn't speak English at all. So we took a tour of two cities and their monuments and understood the whole thing! We even got her jokes! Granted, she was speaking slowly, but I'm still feeling pretty proud of myself.

More stories and pictures to come, but I'm pressed for time now.

Miraculously my ipod survived six hours of bus rides. I slept. Coming into Granada I emerged from my nest of coats and right out my window was my old friend Orion! I told him to make sure that he says hey from me when he sees you tonight.