Well this past weekend marked then end of my travelling in Europe but it was a great end. We were given an extended weekend by our program here in Oxford (no classes on Friday) to allow for travel so Nila and I headed to Paris. We left Thursday right after class and got in around 10pm. The flight to Paris out of London is remarkably short (like 45 minutes) but our airline still managed to serve drinks and a delicious little snack. As usual, I'm quite limited on computer time and I have a lot of pictures I want to share, [View Full Entry]

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So this past weekend, Nila and I traveled to Salzburg. We left Friday right after class and worked our way to Stansted airport, westish of London. Salzburg is a beautiful city but also it is supposed to be a rainy one. The forecast for the weekend was scattered showers both days so we weren't expecting great weather but we were quite fortunate. It rained early Saturday morning, but that was pretty much it for the entire weekend! The city of Salzburg is best known for being the birthplace of Mozart. There is an annual music festival that started Saturday while we [View Full Entry]

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Well... I'm finally back in an English speaking country after a short 2-months. I'm writing from the computer lab in Oxford, but I'll post a brief update of my time in London. I flew from Barcelona into London on Wednesday the 12th. I met up with Nila and her dad in the Stansted airport and we headed into town. Wednesday: Wandered around the southern part of the Thames river. Ate dinner at a place called The Anchor which was quite good. Thursday: Got up early and headed to Westminster but didn't enter because the they wanted £12 which translates to roughly [View Full Entry]

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Since there are some of you out there who should not be reading this entry, I´m going to rate this entry RB (that is: Restricted due to Bullish content). What this rating means is that anyone under the age of, say, 15, those who do not wish to see photos of the running of the bulls, and all mothers are strictly prohibited from viewing this entry and the photos contained herein. On a more serious note, I have posted pictures of the running of the bulls and a couple from the bull fight that we went to in Pamplona. If you [View Full Entry]

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Sorry it has taken so long to update... I´ve been working on this entry in bits and pieces in various Internet cafés. I´m currently in Barcelona so I´ll update you all to this point. I left Granada at about 11pm last Friday on a night bus headed for the Madrid airport. The bus got into the airport around 4am (now Saturday morning). I had a flight out of the new terminal which isn't connected to the other three Madrid terminals, so I had to tell everyone goodbye and catch a bus out to my terminal. It was sad to say goodbye [View Full Entry]

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*edit* Monday, 6/26 -- I´ve added several more photos of the Alhambra and our hike yesterday, plus a short little bit on the hiking trip. I didn´t really have enough to write to merit another entry... but I think there are some good photos. */edit* So Corups Christi was amazing. The whole city prety much shut down to celebrate and have a good time. There were bull fights all week (although I didn´t go... I´m saving that for Pamplona after all those silly people run with the bulls. I will be watching from a safe distance, of course...). There was also [View Full Entry]

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Sorry this wasn´t already posted... I haven´t been able to log into the site for the last two days due to server problems on their end. The plus side of that is that I had lots of time to go over pictures and find a few good ones. Enjoy! So this past weekend, the same group of 8 of us that went to Nerja went traveling again. As I mentioned before, we had Thursday and Friday off for Corpus Christi so that gave us a nice long weekend to get away. We left on Friday on a 7:10AM train for a [View Full Entry]

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They say that a picture is worth a thousand words... So I´ll write a little and post several pics :) This past weekend was a fun one. On Saturday, we went as a large group (70+) to Córdoba and toured the Cathedral and the city. On Sunday, a group of 8 of (including myself) went to the beach city of Nerja. Nerja is about 2 hours by bus from Granada so we cought an early bus (7:15) to take us down. The city is by far the prettiest of any I´ve seen in Spain. The mountians literally lead into the sea [View Full Entry]

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OK... It´s time I got this up to date. We went to Toledo after going to El Escorial but I don´t have access to those pictures right now due to computer restrictions so I´ll hold off on that entry. Last Monday (5/29) we traveled from Toledo to Granada where we met our host families and got settled in. This entry will be an update from then until now (6/6). I am living with a single mom in her 40´s and her son (19). The mom has to work full time so she isn´t around a whole lot and the son doesn´t [View Full Entry]

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Today we headed out of Madrid and to the little town of El Escorial. It is 30ish minutes North of Madrid. There we saw a beautiful Monestary that Felipe II built to celebrate the Spanish victory over the French in the battle of San Quintin. The monestary is also has attached to it a royal residence where Felipe II eventually died. For the tour, we had an amazing guide who spoke gramatically correct Spanish so we could all understand him. When we got there, there was a wedding just finishing in the church. Apparently, the church is such a popular place [View Full Entry]

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