Hola Teresa y la
clase de 9C de Onslow St Audreys,
I am back now in Spain after a very busy Semana Santa
(Easter break) back in England. I'm sorry this entry it is so late but the week before Easter I was too busy to write this entry as I was getting ready to go home. Hope you all had a good Easter and are now all settled back into classes. The weather here in Valladolid is a
little warmer but not by much and it was 21 degrees during the Easter week when
I was in England! 3 weeks ago I visited Toledo (for the day) and Granada from
20-22nd March.
Friday 20th March:
I had to get up very early as we had to leave Valladolid at
6:30am in the coach towards Toledo where we were spending the day.
Unfortunately when we got to Toledo it had already started to rain and it
continued to rain throughout the day. However I did have a very nice day in
Toledo even despite the rain. We went on a city tour to start with where we had
a guide who took us around different parts of the city. I saw a part of Toledo
that I did not see before which I have attached some photos of below so you can
see:
After we had visited Toledo, we got back on the coach for a
3 hour coach journey to the hostel in Granada. I felt very ill on the coach
despite having taken my travel sickness and we stopped off at a service station
where I went and had a hamburger because I was so hungry. I felt much better
after I had eaten. Once we got there, we checked into the hostel-I and a smaller group of us checked into the
smaller hostel ‘Hostel Vita’ as that was not space for everyone to go the first
hostel of Al-Andaluz. Later in the evening we all went out for tapas in
Granada- the food took forever to arrive and in the end I did not have any
because I was not hungry as I had eaten a hamburger at the service station. I
was very glad I ate the hamburger at the service station as the tapas were very
small and there was not much of it. Me and my friend Sharon from Fiji decided
not to go the first ‘fiesta’(party) after the tapas but go to the second 'fiesta'the next night instead because we were so tired from the journey and the day out in Toledo
Saturday 21st March:
On Saturday after breakfast at the hostel, I went on a city
tour around the centre of Granada with the other international students. It started raining early on so the photos I have taken below of the places I saw on the city tour in Granada are a little dark for that reason:
After the city tour around the centre of Granada we had free time to get lunch. Me and my friend had difficulty finding places to eat in Granada so we decided to just go to the Burger King we saw while we were on the tour. However we accidentally went in the wrong direction so had to walk all the way back down the road. We found Burger King and quite unusually the server in Burger King in Granada spoke English. We then had to meet up with the group to go to The Alhambra and Generalife together. The Alhambra was huge and had many parts to it-certain parts of it I have not mentioned as they were not open to us to visit when we went.
These are the parts of the Alhambra that we visited:
-The Alcazaba (we could not go inside this part but I have taken a photo of it from outside)
-The Nasrid Palaces which included 3 palaces:
1.) Palacio de Comares (Palace Colmares)
2.) Palacio de los Leones (Palace of Lions)
3.) Palacio
de Carlos V (Carlos V Palace)
Generalife was the leisure villa of the Sultans of Granada, which is surrounded by orchards and gardens. I really enjoyed my trip to the Alhambra and Generalife even despite the fact we had to wait to get into The Nasrid Palaces in the rain and the weather never really improved. I have attached lots of photos of the all the parts I visited with what part they are below (when I know):
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| Carlos V Palacio |
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| Carlos V Palacio |
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| (Dentro) Carlos V Palacio |
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| (Dentro) Carlos V Palacio |
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| Entrance to the Alhambra |
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| La Alcazaba |
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| Inside the Alhambra |
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| Another part of the Alhambra |
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| Inside the Alhambra |
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| Inside the Alhambra |
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| Me and my friend Sharon from Fiji inside the Alhambra |
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Inside the Alhambra
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| Palacio de los Leones |
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| Palacio de los Leones |
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| Palacio de los Leones |
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| Palacio de los Leones |
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| Palacio de los Leones |
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| Close-up of lions in Palacio de los Leones |
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| Palacio de Comares |
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| Me at Palacio de Comares |
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| Me and my French friend at Palacio de Comares |
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| Palacio de Comares |
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