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Grand Granada

The past few days we have been in Granada (which actually means pomegranate in spanish) in order to see the Alhambra and a couple of other places. The next day we went to the Alhambra, a Moorish palace converted to a fort by the Spanish when they reconquered Spain. The Alhambra was the...

permalink written by  andres3009 on July 15, 2012 from Granada, Spain
from the travel blog: Spain Trip 2012

Our destination — Granada and the Alhambra

Islam's indisputable imprint on western civilization is most beautifully evident here in this miraculously well-preserved 600-year-old palace and grounds. We enjoyed the Alhambra and Generalife (gen-er-a-LEEF-eh) gardens on a gorgeous early autumn day.

permalink written by   on October 29, 2011 from Granada, Spain
from the travel blog: Spain & Portugal 2011

Granada

Probably the most beautiful place I have ever seen!

permalink written by  Brigid Jelsma on June 5, 2011 from Granada, Spain
from the travel blog: Walk a little further to another plan

Futbol!

As I briefly mentioned earlier, each afternoon I coach sports with the children while some others do extra reading and tutoring. Yesterday we had our first, and hopefully weekly, soccer game day with all 6 schools we work in. It was a raging success. The children numbered more than one hundred...

permalink written by  mls12 on April 23, 2010 from Granada, Spain
from the travel blog: Volunteering with La Esperanza Granada in Granada, Nicaragua

el tiempo vuela

sometimes erica and i feel like perry and mariolas children. last night they took us to see a movie kind of on the outskirts of granada, so mariola drove. this movie theater was crazy, so different. we got our tickets then went through and we were definitely standing in a candy store. just...

permalink written by  Taryn Hawkins on December 13, 2009 from Granada, Spain
from the travel blog: Granada

morocco video

one of my program directors, inma, did a lot of video taping while we were in granada, then made one big video of it. take a look. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x48Nf-XpQvY

permalink written by  Taryn Hawkins on December 13, 2009 from Granada, Spain
from the travel blog: Granada

ten things

each week we get a newsletter updating us on whats going on in granada and within our program, this week was the last one and it had something fun i wanted share...because almost all is 100% true. so thats the ten things... other than that it talks a lot about reverse culture shock and what to...

permalink written by  Taryn Hawkins on December 11, 2009 from Granada, Spain
from the travel blog: Granada

THE best weekend of my life..

yes, the best weekend of my life took place in granada. all the traveling ive done has been wonderful, but this was one of the very few weekends i was in granada and im thankful that i was. the weekend started off on thursday, thanksgiving, although we did have class, weird.. we had an...

permalink written by  Taryn Hawkins on November 30, 2009 from Granada, Spain
from the travel blog: Granada

the world is like a...kleenex??

first of all, i did not go to fezna morocco? i went to fez, but aparently that doesnt exist in the blogabond world. so some more cultural things im learning from my sweet intercambios. they dont really celebrate christmas here. they do, but its not as big as our christmas, which i thought it...

permalink written by  Taryn Hawkins on November 26, 2009 from Granada, Spain
from the travel blog: Granada

really spain?

I have had intercambios galore lately and im loving it. Today the intercambio that I do with Erica, took us to a teteria in the Arabic part of town. His name is perry and he is my favorite intercambio. Hes something along the lines of erica’s host sister’s fiancé…or some weird connection like...

permalink written by  Taryn Hawkins on November 19, 2009 from Granada, Spain
from the travel blog: Granada

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