Coast and Rain

It will be a quick post, for I have to finish packing. I am leaving Granada tomorrow! To be followed by Ben a day later when we will fly to Rome together.  Uff da, I will miss Granada, I am ready to go onto new and exciting things, and changing sheets has gotten rather old, but I love this city and will be so sad to leave it.  I feel like I need to come back, hopefully for a longer period of time.  Its been a good past few weeks, we took a little trip out to the coast a few hours away to a small resort town, Nerja.  Staying there only a night we had a lovely time hanging out at the beach and walking around.  Nerja is one of the picturesque white towns built into the hills situated right along the coast. All of the buildings are white. Strangely, it rather reminded me of Stavanger, Norway. It was also full of retired old scandanavian tourists. We definitely brought the average age down a few years.  Nerja is home to the famous Balcon De Europa.  The balcony of Europe, which is a beautiful lookout.  There are also old old caves , but being the terrible tourists we are, we did not visit them.  Life has been relatively uneventful in the past few weeks, but I did cut my hair!  A brave feat when the translations can go awry.   I am very happy with it, its very short. Rome in 3 days!PS: Sorry about the font/layout problems, I cant seem to change it and I don't have to patience to figure it out.  

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Food.

I have been in Granada for about a month now, and I still love this city.  The days have been beautiful and interesting, filled with walks around the city, delicious tapas, and lots of food.  Two important things in particular took place, we visited the Alhambra and it was Valentines day!  I had been the the Alhambra before two years ago and I remembered it as the most beautiful buildings I had ever seen.  Visiting it again I was not disappointed. It seems rather useless to describe it, for its so beautiful, quite like a paradise, with gardens that melt into rooms and fantastic geometric patterns on the ceiling, fountains everywhere and a grand view of the entire city and mountains surrounding it.  It is a world heritage site and the main attraction in Granada, hopefully you can get some sense of what it is like from the pictures.  The Alhambra has a fascinating history from the moors who built it to the christians who build their own palace, and you can see the various evidence of the different cultures and eras all over.  Amazing.  
 Valentines Day! Oh boy, I was excited, it was my very first ever valentines day I've experienced dating someone.  I was not disappointed. We had the day off and went to a nearby village to go hiking in the morning.  That evening Ben took me out to a lovely Italian dinner, with the whole shebang, candles, flowers etc, and gave me beautiful earrings from Granada. It was a fantastic day and everything my suppressed romantic had wanted.  Sadly Ben has been quite sick in the past 10 days or so, with a fever and tiredness.  Its taking a long time to get over it because he still has to teach.  The past few days he has been recovering though, and hopefully will be well soon. Its scary being sick in a foreign place, and I'm amazed that I didn't catch it. We have about a month left here in Granada and then we are heading to Rome!  We plan to be in Rome then volunteer on a farm for about a week before Ben heads back to Michigan.  I am going back to the US in May where I plan to spend the summer withe my parents in Klamath Falls Oregon, being a babysitter and helping my aunt with general maintenance. More food pics below!