Blogs from Andalusia, Spain, Europe - page 284

El Chorro: Steep gorges of Orange Rock, blue-skies and warm Spanish mid-winter sun, and a group of cave-dwelling climbers intent on celebrating life! I came to El Chorro to hopefully meet up with some climbers and get on the rock for a bit before my plunge back to cold-europe for christmas. What I have found is a scene that inspires and captivates, and one that I am not so eager to leave. Living in a cave in winter may sound like pretty tough going, but it really is quite comfortable. Our cave - one of about 9 - has doors, windows, a cooker, even a kitchen sink outside! It stays really quite warm day and night, and with the added amenities of couch, mattress and fireplace (with chimney) is a good one! Among the cave-dwellers here, ... read more

After about a week in spain, it's almost inevitable that you will develop semi-reverse sleeping patterns. If you sleep in a bit too long, you will finally venture outside at maybe 1:30 or 2pm to find that everything is closed! On discovering that nothing reopens until 5pm, you decide to may as well go and recline on the terrace with a beer until it does. And that's the point of no return. For the rest of the evening you are in a cheerful 'up for anything' mood and as soon as someone suggests going to see some Flamenco or popping out for a bit of Tapas at 11pm, you accept graciously and don't check your watch again til' 3! This has been happening to me every night for the past week, and (not that I'm complaining!) ... read more

Hello all, it´s very cold in spain, and there doesn´t seem to be as much heating. not much to tell you but i´m adding photos. the stars are wax statues from madame tussauds in london. will try to label them. mel... read more

OK, well, it's official. I am a bit crazy. I have a bit of a screw loose. There is something different about my brain that makes me do strange things occasionally. Strange things like HITCHHIKING 1000 ks from BARCELONA TO GRANADA!! :S I know I mentioned it previously, but at the time I thought that, yeah, yeah this was just another one of Charlie's hair-brained ideas that will never come to fruition- but no, on Saturday morning I found myself leaving the hostel in Barcelona and jumping on a random south-bound train to the outskirts of Barcelona where I then asked a perplexed looking local the direction south and began to walk... and walk... and walk... In the insufficient amount of research I did, I found many articles written by experienced travellers telling of how impossible ... read more

Hola a todos! So it´s the first day of December, and I figured I should write a blog since my last entry was a month ago! Here´s a quick update of the past month of my Spain adventure: A day after I got back from London, my family came to visit me in Madrid! The first day they were here, I took them on a walking tour of the city. Looking back, this was probably not the best idea because they still had jet lag. We had tapas that night with my profesor and also went out to dinner. The next day (Saturday) my aunt Lindy and her friend Linda came. It was rainy so we had to find stuff to do that was indoors. The sad thing was that it continued to rain for the ... read more