For all of our hard work over the
last 2 weeks and for attending so many classes, last weekend Spain kindly
rewarded us with another 4 day holiday. Technically the Friday isn't a holiday,
but the Spanish just take it off and make it a long holiday weekend.
The first night of our mini holiday
was Halloween, which unbeknown to us the Spanish go loco for. Our costumes were
fairly last minute, so went along the lines of 'I'm not really scary, I'm just
dressing up because I can'. Most of us went as superheroes, which was actually
fun in a strange way. Never gone out in such minimal attire before, I was
pretty much just wearing what looked like a swimming costume and a blazer.
Brilliant. Nevertheless it was fun, and I enjoyed it. We then realised how
seriously the Spanish take Halloween, I can't even express how rammed the city
was, it was just packed, there was so much traffic purely because the cars
couldn't get through the swarms of people on the streets. And everyone, like
everyone, was dressed crazily scary. The Spanish all love Halloween, not just
the 5 year olds but the 65 year olds love it too. Spanish Halloween is honestly
something that people should witness at least once in their lifetime.
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| Catwoman and Batwoman... |
Next up was the lazy day off, met up
for a cheeky shawarma and had a few naps! Another night out followed and was
actually great fun. Headed to a place called Malafama for the first time, and
won’t be the last… I thoroughly enjoy it when clubs play mash ups of Scandalous
and Pretty Woman. Added to the fact that Charles and I did the whole 'dance
like nobody is watching' thing, it was a great night. Howeeeever, the fun ended
there as when we left the club, our boys had a bit of a confrontation with the
Malaga muggers. Lesson to the dumb muggers; if you're going to steal wallets in
the same streets and same group of people all the time, at least don't let
people see you. So anyway, the boys spotted them and asked for the wallet back.
Probably not the best move (or the one I’d opt for) as things got a bit heated,
but the wallet was amazingly returned (a little emptier…) after a bit of
shouting/banging and bottles being held to threaten people. To be honest it was
pretty scary and the first time I've witnessed a near 'bottling' or been in
such proximity to a potentially dangerous fight. Thankfully there were about 12
guys so us three girls were pretty protected by the boys! I’m definitely
witnessing a lot of new things here, put it that way!
We woke up on Friday and decided to
book tickets to Granada for the weekend. Spontaneous, right? We’ve been saying
for ages we need to get out of the city, so we walked to the bus station and
bought tickets. Easy. €20 for a return bus ticket is so worth it, and €16 euros
for a hostel is pretty decent too! We were pretty excited to be fair. I love road
trips!
On Saturday we arrived in Granada
and thanks to Sammie’s sixth sense and a bit of direction from the locals, we
found our hostel. It was set in the middle of an Artesian market which was
actually pretty cool to wander through; despite the fact every little shop had
the same things and smelt really odd. Was a pretty chilled afternoon, wandering
around, taking pictures and eating churros (amazing). We met up with another
girl who is in Granada on her year abroad and all went for a sophisticated dinner
out with wine. I had Paella, again, and it was delightful. I think I am
actually going to miss seafood next year…
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| Pretty views of Granada |
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| Meeting up with Robin, Paelllllaaaa |
There was obviously only one option
of how to spend the remainder of our evening in this new city, fiesta time. The
club in Granada was pretty damn cool, it was set in an old theatre and it
looked exactly the same just without seats! There were so many men it was like
we were in a big goldfish bowl. We spent far too much time on the stage and the
DJ wouldn’t let anybody except us on there – it was quite a privilege. I think
he liked us once we had performed the Gangnam style dance to the entire club, ha!
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| Don't stop the partyyyy
Sunday was very cultural. I enjoyed it a lot, living such a
party lifestyle means that when you actually do cultural things it is about 10
times more enjoyable, and also quite rewarding. We climbed up to the view point of the
Alhambra, which was beautiful. The sound of everyone ‘ooohing’ as we reached
the top proved how amazing the views actually were. I am sure that the pictures
I took don’t quite do it justice and on a clear day it would be so much more
amazing to see. We also went to a chapel that had a museum attached to it, it
was pretty fancy inside and was really enjoyable to look around – or in my case
just sit and stare at how incredible it all was. The only part of this I did
not enjoy was seeing the tomb/coffins of the old Kings, Queens and princes of
Spain. That was so weird, and freaked me right out. A line of 5 coffins behind
a window, underground, I ran away pretty damn fast.
   
We wandered around the market again, and I bought all of my
little gifts – it was like I was on a genuine mini holiday. The trip was
actually so worth the money we spent when we were there. It has made me so
excited to see where we can travel next within Spain… Barcelona, Ronda, Madrid,
Seville... The list is getting pretty
long now!
However, for now it is back to another week of boring
university, looking forward to the weekend already!
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