Blogs from Málaga, Andalusia, Spain, Europe - page 15

Today we arrived in Malaga and boarded a bus to take us to the beach for our kayak trip. We traveled an hour to the beautiful beach town of Nerja and found a little beach dotted with palm trees. It was a blue bird day, mild and sunny. We got outfitted with life vests and paddles and then carried our kayaks down to the water's edge. After a brief lesson, we climbed into our 2-person kayak and started paddling out to sea. I was in front and as we pulled away from shore, I felt the boat tip and suddenly, we were both in the water. Damn! It was cold! I swam back to shore trying to catch my breath and kept getting knocked down by waves as I tried to walk out. I ended up ... read more

Well here's how my trip to London with Lisa went down...it was quite an adventure: Monday - Arrived at the airport around 10:30 at night, went through customs and all that good stuff, then attempted to find our way around to our couchsurfers who lived about an hour away. So we went on a search for the train station to take us into town...by the time we got there they told us the next train to leave would be the last one to go where we needed to be. We asked what time that train would be leaving and he told us 11:15...the time was 11:11....so we RAN.... ALOT. Then we hopped on the underground tube from there, going the directions the internet has told us to take...Around midnight it turned out we didn't know what ... read more

Today Lisa and I are leaving for London!! YAY! Unfortunately that means we will also be internetless because we are definitely not risking taking our computers along with us while couchsurfing and staying in hostels…but we are VERY excited, especially because we get to speak ENGLISH the entire time. For the first time in months we won’t have to worry about translating! It should be interesting because apparently Obama’s over there right now and its causing quite a commotion, but we’re not too worried about it. Guess what!! We have new students!! Two students just arrived in on Tuesday from the US…I’m not sure how long they’re staying until, but it sounds like it will be a month or two. Unfortunately that did mean we also lost a few students :( Our friend Obe from Denmark ... read more

Well today has been a slightly depressing day because its stormy out, everyone’s sick, and my best friend here Lisa was really upset since her and her boyfriend from home broke up last night. She actually ended up going home early, I felt really bad for her  But on the bright side, after tomorrow, the weather is going to start getting really nice again and actually stay that way! And, we are leaving for London next week Friday…yay…although we haven’t found a place to stay yet! Oops…we are probably going to end up staying in a hotel because this whole couch surfing thing just isn’t working out. Yesterday Lisa I went to see a place called Banos Del Carmen, and we walked all the way there! It was on the way other side of Malaga, ... read more

Well let's see here...this week went by really fast again. Lisa and I have been busy making plans for Semana Santa, and after shopping around for a while, we decided to go with visiting London. We found some tickets off of ryanair that leave from Malaga for 15 euros, but haven't bought any tickets back yet because the return flight is almost 100 euros! What a difference...so hopefully we find another alternative...apparently flying to Barcelona from London is pretty cheap, so we might just do that and get some really cheap train tickets from Barcelona to Malaga. Other than that, we've been finding some time to go to the beach since its been pretty sunny this week...although the whole having class from 10-2 everyday thing kind of takes away a huge part of your day :( ... read more