My second weekend in Malaga (and Granada)

// May 13th, 2007 // malaga

It’s 23.00 now, I still have to do my homework but first want to make a short summary of my weekend and upload some pictures. This posting is in English to please some of my fellow students, especially the crazy Canadian girls.

Lets start this summary with Thursday. In the evening there was a “beach party” for students from different schools in Malaga. All the students had to bring there own drinks to a special location on the beach. There was no music and lights so it pretty much looked like a “cumbaja” meeting with students sitting in circles. It was nice to see some people from other schools but I went home early because I have classes on Friday.

Friday-evening we made a barbecue at the beach just outside Malaga. The food wasn’t really good but we had a great time drinking, telling stories and enjoying the surrounding. Markus brought the little puppy dog Paco who was almost thrown in a dumpster by some Spanish children (long story). If you want to adopt this cute little 4 weeks old dog you can send me an email. Or maybe I’ll just bring him home….

On Saturday-morning Whitney left back home and I was quite sad because we were really close. We had a lot of fun these last two weeks talking about polar bears and stuff like that. Meeting all these new people from all over the world is definitely one of the best experiences here. After only two weeks I’m able to travel half the world invited to sleep on couches everywhere. On top of my countries-I-want-to-visit-list is Canada, so Calgary and T-dot be prepared.

That afternoon Jeroen (aka Jeronimo) invited me to join him and two girls from his host family to Grananda. We left Malaga around 15.00h and went to a cheap hostal close to la alhambra. The girls went shopping the moment we arrived and we went exploring the city. I was really impressed when I first saw the snowy tops of the Sierra Nevada while standing in the burning sun. Granada really is a beautiful city with nice tapas bars on almost every corner. If you order a drink in a bar you’ll get free tapas with it. If you order more drinks you will get different tapas and they get better with every drink you take.

In the morning I woke up at 07.30 to get tickets for la Alhambra. When I arrived at the ticket-office there already was a line of 250 people. After almost two hours I got the tickets and went back to our hostal to wake up Jeroen and the girls. We first went to the citycentre to have some breakfast and then went back to visit la alhambra. This “small village” was build many years ago and includes both muslim and christian architecture. The palace was the most impressive to see and we ran into Jeroen his neighbors from Holland when we were in it (it’s a small world). We were all really tired so we decided not to see the complete area and just left back to Malaga. Back home….