still havent found what im looking for

Couple more photos on the way for previous blog entries. The stupid computer doesn't like my camera and won't let me upload them. I'm now one week down of a two week Spanish language course and my brain is very much ready for a rest. My vocabulary has increased a little, but I'm still only about 0.0001% into understanding what and how to use the little words that tie a sentance together. I'm in the suburbs of Málaga, which fortunately means it's only about a 10 minute bus ride to the city. I've seen a little bit of the city centre and will hopefully see some more this afternoon. Apparently this is the birthplace of Picasso. Hopefully I will see some of his artwork when I travel to Madrid later in my trip. I'm not as ... read more

So I got to Málaga finally. So far, so good. No major catastrophes. I met my host family who I'll be staying with for the next two weeks and got stuck into my next book, "The Pilgrimage". Another of Paulo Coelho's titles. Well actually I started that a few days ago when I was back in Cádiz. Cádiz was great. I suspected I would like staying there after stopping for the afternoon in the car on my way to Sevilla. In fact I'd got to Cádiz a couple of days earlier than I'd originally planned as Semana Santa in Sevilla just became a little to difficult for me to digest and finding places to stay was always a pain. Plus, I had really wanted to couchsurf my way through Sevilla, but that didn't happen at all ... read more

These people are crazy! How they haven't burnt their city down yet, I've no idea. Las Fallas is basically a festival all about fire and fireworks. For all the details, check out: http://www.fallasfromvalencia.com/en The festival runs from 15th to 19th March. The Fallas are the basis of the whole festival. They're basically models/floats without wheels constructed into various designs which are burned on the final night. The large one's can be up to five stories high and take around a year to build. Burning the fallas is a tradition attributed to burning certain things that were used during the winter and are no longer required now winter is over. The fallas and the rest of the festival has become more and more elaborate and more and more extreme as the years have gone by. It seemed ... read more