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Rachel's Eurotrip
Just got back from a great weekend in Granada, a city in southern spain (it was about 3 hrs by bus from sevilla). Granada is most famous for the Alhambra, a HUGE Islamic palace built up on top of the mountains surrounding granada. Granada was the last city in spain to fall in the reconquesta--the christian fighters that took control of spain from the muslims.
I took a ton of pictures at the alhambra, every room we went into was so cool and each had a cool history. When I upload my pictures I will put descriptions as best I remember. There is a quote in spanish, I cant remember it exactly off the top of my head, but basically its something like `if you live without seeing the Alhambra, you havent lived' it really was so cool, and there were cats everyone and our tour guide kept feeding them kibbles and bits, it was cute (would have been better if they were dogs!)
Saturday they took us up to the Sierra Nevada, it was about 45 minutes from granada, practicaly straight up. Imagine traversing the winding roads up a mountain in colorado...but in a huge charterbus, it was an adventure. The sierra nevada was beyond beautiful...its a huge mountain range, and the only skiing on it (I think) is where I was, outside granada.
It was pretty overwhelming when we got to the base of the mountain, there were soooo many people there, I have never seen a ski mountain like this before. Spainards dont really get the whole wait in a single file line thing. Everyone just skis on top of each other in line to push their way to the front to get on, i dont think i have ever seen anything more unorganized in my life..well actually the line to the gondola beat the lines to the lift, to get on the gondola it was totally a free for all, everyone pushing to get on it before the doors closed. And we didnt sit down, they just stuffed us on like an elevator. It really was quite funny.
I actually snowboarded while I was there and it was amazing. I would say it was a very intermediate (intermediate in an out west not Michigan way) ski resort, with some easy and some harder runs. Also, they dont groom there, so since it had snowed the day before there were random moguls places and it was really hard to see, so that made the trips down quite interesting.
The city of granada was also very pretty. Similar to sevilla, but I think it was smaller, but I didnt walk around too much because I spent all day saturday on the mountain. But, everything gets started really late there, which wasnt good for me because I snowboarded all day and was exhausted. The club we went to didnt even OPEN until 2 am...which is when bars in michigan close, kinda crazy, but of course still fun at the same time.
Well, hopefully you can tell from this post that I had an AMAZING weekend, and will hopefully have more just like it!
Rachel
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