A Visit to Granada

I recently, as in a matter of minutes ago, returned home from a 8 day visit to Granada with the host family. Now the actual visit itself was actually only 6 days long because it took a whole day to drive there and another whole day to drive back!

Just to give you an idea. 

First of all road tripping across Spain is really one of the coolest possible road trips you could ever go on! Its literally mountains one second, desert the next, and then a perfect sea side view the next! I tried to take pictures, but they did the terrain NO justice. Here are some better pictures courtesy of Google.

More or less.

These kinds of tunnels are very common here!

More or less again.

Also while driving through Spain you get to see a lot of older, ruins-type buildings that we simply don't have in New York.

So in Granada we stayed in an apartment that my host family has in addition to their home here in Castelldefels. We spent the majority of the time there with Ana Maria's family who were all so nice! 

One day we spent in the actual city of Granada we visited the Alhambra.The Alhambra is basically what Granada is known for here in Spain. It is the ruins of a HUGE fortress / palace complete with gardens and fountains! Again these aren't my photo's, they're Google's.

And then another day we went back into the city just to do a bit of wandering and shopping.

So ya! Nothing overly exciting, just a lot of new sights seen and people met!

If you are wondering why I didn't post about Christmas, it is because here in Spain Christmas is not a very big deal, at least not in my family. We had Christmas Eve or Noche Buena which was basically just a huge dinner, and then we slept in the next day. "Christmas" comes on January 6th and is called Three Kings Day. So I will keep you all posted on that when the day comes! As for right now, I hope you all had a very Merry Christmas and have a Happy New Year!!!