With every passing week, I feel like Seattle tugs at me harder and harder. To say I´m ready to go back home would be an understatement. These private classes are turning into dreaded chores. However, I´m sure in, oh, 13 days from now, I´ll be left totally astounded by how fast the last six months have flown by, and surely sometime in the summer, I´ll have these same yearnings for the other side of the Atlantic.
Anyhow, my travel weekends continue. This past weekend I headed eastward in Andalucía with a quick stop in
Granada on Friday, then moved further east to the coast of
Almería the next day. These past two weekends I´ve made good use of a travel network called
BlaBlaCar (my profile:
http://www.blablacar.es/usuario/mostrar/s3jfPdVO6u2iQIKHkv9v_A). Basically, it´s a car-sharing system in which the driver offers to take along passengers headed for the same destination at a discounted price. It is definitely the most cost-effective option and, between the five different rides I've picked up thus far, I've met some cool people and have been in on some pretty entertaining conversations (note that some
drivers have left reviews for me as a
passenger).
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| One of my BlaBla experiences |
I'm going to leave one little anecdote concerning the trip itself before I plaster this post with beach photos: they say that
Granada is a magical city but, this being my second visit there, to me it's become a city of
improbable coincidences (recall that the first time I had watched the Seahawks' Superbowl victory with my Seattle friend working in the city). This time around, I had gone to see some of my 6th-grade school kids who were on a graduation trip. My bilingual coordinator and I had arranged it so that I would catch them at the science museum that day. Now it just so happened that I found them in an exhibition where there was one other school group ... which turned out to be none other than the school
of the kids at my academy. Basically, that moment
in Granada captured the gist of my teaching experience
in Sevilla (mind you, my school and my academy aren´t anywhere near each other). Small country, clearly.
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| Houses en El Albazín in Granada |
As for
Almería, lots of lounging on the beach and taking full advantage of the unlimited use of AIR CONDITIONING in my hotel room. Honestly, these weekend trips serve more as a getaway and a chance to relax than for touristic and culturally-enriching purposes. Although, I have to admit, enduring a four-hour car ride back made me question my decision to go so dang far for less than two full days. I leave you photos of a stroll I took around the city and, of course, the beach:
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| The Cathedral |
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| One facade of a Moorish fortress |
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| On top of a mirador |
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| The beach with a desert in the backdrop |
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| Chillaxing |
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