Taxidermy and Graduation

An ancient Jewish neighborhood or a Portland-like park have been two of my favorite routes to run up to La Alhambra. It is situated on a hill overlooking the city of Granada, and is an ancient Muslim fortress/city. Rather magical to enter into another world on my morning runs J

The two old ladies :)

Sarah, a girl from my program who spent her last semester of college in Granada instead of attending her graduation, was able to celebrate an American/Spanish ceremony. We assembled together in a park with an incredible fountain, forced her into a granny nightgown as her “gown” and a ridiculous sparkly hat as her “cap,” had a guitarist playing and even had speeches!

Ronda

For our last excursion with the program, we went to the tiny pueblos of Ronda and Grazalema. Ronda is situated on a cliff with a river running through its ravine, connected by a famous bridge that has a jail in its center (would not mind being a criminal with THAT view!). Besides having an awesome ancient mine that goes down to the crystal blue water, it is also home to the oldest Plaza de Toros in Spain. Our poor tour guide had to compete for our attention while two 65 year old women were pretending to be the bull and the bullfighter!

The following day we went to Grazalema, which is not famous for anything apart from being a precious pueblo situated in the mountains. We went on a fantastic hike, except that our tour guides proceeded to stop at EVERY plant to explain its name, but we did get to eat wild asparagus. For lunch we went to a great restaurant that had a ton of taxidermy—felt like homeJ