Hola,
As the days and weeks seem to be getting shorter, I am finding less and less free time in my days which means my blogging time in nearly non-existent. However, I have finally found some time so here's goes nothing. The weekend after Morocco my friends from Grinnell, who are studying in Denmark and London, came to visit! We had a great time. They arrived on Thursday and they discovered the heavenly kebabs we love here in Granada (I think they each had about five during the weekend) and had a fairly calm night. The next day we visited the Alhambra and explored the city. Saturday we went to a Flamenco show up in the Albayzin (the old, windy part of town) which had an amazing view of the Alhambra all light up. Then we headed back down to town and had a wonderful evening. Then in the morning we woke up and had one of Granada's many delights: Churros con chocolate. Just a perfect way to end off their trip. It was great to see them and they all loved Granada.
It was not long before I saw them again, however, because the next weekend I traveled to Copenhagen, Denmark to visit Meg and Eric and go to Sensation, which is what some have labeled the largest rave in Europe. But before my friends and I got to Denmark we had a 9 hour layover in London, well actually an hour outside of London. The fact that our layover happened to be from 10:30 p.m. to 7:30 a.m. did not stop us from traveling into to London to see Big Ben, Buckingham palace, and various other parts of the city. My friends, Matt and Chris that visited me the previous week, live in London and we were lucky enough to have our very own tour guides. It was London in about 3 hours, after factoring in bus rides and getting to the airport early for our flight, but it was great and I can now stay I have visited London.
Before we knew it we were on another flight and off to Copenhagen. (Side note: both these cities are quite cold and made me very grateful that I live in southern Spain were it is much warmer.) We met Eric at the airport and our adventure began. After dropping our stuff off at Eric's dorm, we did a little tour of the city. We saw the city center with all the government buildings, the area in Copenhagen with all the different colored buildings by the water (this is a pretty famous area and is on many postcards, travel guides, etc. of Copenhagen), saw Eric's school, and went to Christiana which is an autonomous neighborhood in Copenhagen which follows a special law that appeared to actually be no law. It was a crazy place. That night we just hung out at Eric's and took part in some Copenhagen nightlife.
The next day we headed out to Meg's apartment, which is an hour outside of the city. Poor girl. But her apartment is really nice and the town she lives in is very quaint and cozy. We relaxed for awhile then headed back into the city for SENSATION!!! Huge stadium and tons of people and bright lights basically sums up Sensation. It was a great time. The next morning we woke up, hopped on a plane, and began an entire day of traveling. We arrived home around 11:30 p.m. and then I crashed. Great weekend! Tomorrow my program and I head to Cádiz and Jerez for a couple days. It should be a good time.
Hasta luego,
Ashley
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