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Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Spain-Murcia, Granada

Continuing from my previous post...Spain part 2! After Valencia, we went to Granada, stopping at Murcia on the way. My mum bought this at one of the rest stops...


The can on the left with the word "Sin" means there's no alcohol. Imagine beer with no alcohol! Haha...the can on the right is the normal beer.

We also stopped at one of the famous coastlines of Spain called Costa Blanca in Alicante. It was bloody cold. Haha... We ate lunch there by the coast, and ordered their famous Paella. Yumm..

Costa Blanca in Alicante

Seafood Paella


Cafe Cortado, which means coffee with less milk. And just for your info, coffee with milk is called Cafe con Leche.


Reaching Granada, we visited a residential house. This guy is crazy! And he is also a genius. The area that we went to is a place where people live in caves. Basically they build their house by digging the mountains to form caves for themselves.



Can you see those white chimneys sticking out? People are staying in those mountains.


What's so fabulous about staying in this house is that because it's a cave, whenever you want an extension, just dig! This guy has been digging and building new rooms whenever he feels like it!


They love hanging pottery on their walls.

He does small statues too! This is one of his works in progress.
The view at the top level of his house. And that's my mum. Haha..

At night, we joined the optional tour where we could watch the famous Flamenco dance, performed by the Gypsies in Spain. Did you know where gypsies in Europe originated from? India! They slowly travelled inland from India to Europe. And through thousands of years and centuries, they slowly evolved and are now known as gypsies in Europe.

The dance floor


Sangria! It's a Spainish cocktail made with red wine. Quite dry. Sangria reminded me of Geog lessons in JC where we learnt about tourism. Spain is known for the 3 'S'es. Sea, sex, sangria (alcohol). Lol.


Wanted to end of this post with a video clip of the Flamenco dance, but somehow blogspot dun wanna upload my video..so I'll just end with a photo then.


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reflections @ 10:32 PM