December 2012
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October 2012
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September 2012
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why you should travel young. →
August 2012
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July 2012
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On our last night in Granada, we saw this band...
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Wunderkammer: Did You Know →
susannacole:
Did you know, you can quit your job, you can leave university? You aren’t legally required to have a degree, it’s a social pressure and expectation, not the law, and no one is holding a gun to your head. You can sell your house, you can give up your apartment, you can even sell your vehicle, and your things that are mostly unnecessary. You can see the world on a minimum wage salary,...
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All I can say right now is ¡VIVA ESPAÑA!
Also that Madrid has quickly become one of my favorite cities and I know I’ll be back.
It’s been a crazy day - I’ve had approximately 2 hours of non-walking. El Rastro flea market, Palacio Real, getting lost a little bit, lunch/dinner at a place that seemed reasonable and then charged me 3 euros for a bottle of water, Hyundai Fan Park...
June 2012
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our last night
Tonight was our last night in Granada- and what a wonderful way to spend it.
Marcia, Amelia, and I met up at our usual meeting place by the fountain and just… enjoyed a laidback night. The atmosphere was absolutely gorgeous- clear skies, perfect temperature (OH HEY NOT SWEATING), a nice cool breeze, city lights, stars, a bright white moon, music everywhere…
On the streets and in the...
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When I realize the bread on the table is not free
thetimeistudiedabroad:
wasn’t going to reblog gifs on this (or… anything) but i had to.
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tonight
is the night of our final goodbye dinner, even though we have a week and a day left.
A WEEK AND A DAY.
I am not prepared to return to the States.
And I am seriously considering coming back to Spain.
God led me through six years of Spanish classes in middle school and high school and had me fall in love with the language and culture of Spain. I feel like this is going somewhere. I have no...
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Córdoba, Andalucía
Córdoba is most famous for the Mezquita-Catedral situated within the city’s borders. The site was originally a temple to the Roman gods and in the eighth century began its conversion into a mosque. During the Spanish Reconquista, chapels and then a cathedral were built inside the mosque. The architecture of the building is really interesting since it’s a mix of Roman, Moorish, and...
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trains, buses, and beaches
After five long days of traveling, sightseeing, and bumming around on the beautiful beaches of southern Spain, I’m thankful for being back “home” in Granada. Including last weekend’s excursion, I’ve been in seven cities in a little over a week: Córdoba, Sevilla, Granada, Cádiz, Jerez, Tarifa, and Algeciras. (I don’t really count Algeciras though…)
We got...
little things
lists of things I wish were different and things that I’m enjoying to “balance” them out. :)
I wish we’d eat lunch earlier so I’m not always hungry during class… but the coffee machine downstairs has delicious vanilla cappuccino for .70 euros.
I wish the bread we eat with meals wasn’t so stale… but the watermelon here is amazing.
I wish it was...
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week 1
I’ve been trying to keep up with this blog but it’s so hard! I want to upload so many photos but the wi-fi is pretty slow… :P
so a quick update…
On Monday we went on a walking tour of the city center. We saw City Hall and the cathedral and Granada is beautiful! :)
Tuesday was when we went to El Albaycín. Basically, Granada is situated in the foothills of the Sierra...
May 2012
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que guay, no?*
*pronounced “k wai, no?”
So much has happened in the past two days!
Granada is absolutely beautiful. The city itself is beautiful - some of the streets are classic old European streets that can’t fit a car through and others are wide enough to accomodate for a tree-lined cobblestone walk in the middle. There’s a combination of modern, Baroque, Moorish, and Renaissance...
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i really like window light
Sitting by the window here in the lobby of my hotel in Granada. Orientation’s in an hour but I checked out early and am sitting here now. At 11 in the morning, the streets are much less busy than they were twelve hours ago at 11 at night (or 23:00 if you’re European and fancy).
I have to type and think quickly again. I brought my charger and the adapter this time but I’m not...
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giant stroopwafels
Made it to my hotel!
…after racing through the Frankfurt airport, getting stopped because my box of adapter stuff was too mysterious, racing some more, arriving at my gate *just* in time (definitely a PRAISE THE LORD!! moment there), nodding off over and over in the Madrid train station, and successfully taking a taxi here.
some memorable moments:
the massive stroopwafel that came with...
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tips for speedy airporting
Fly out of Rochester. There wasn’t a line for check-in. Or security.
I’m sitting by the window near Gate A6, waiting for my delayed flight to start boarding. I was pretending to read The Fellowship of the Ring but the tiny propellor planes are distracting - and so are the panicked what-did-i-forget-oh-no-what-did-i-forget thoughts that won’t stop until I actually remember what I...
