Feliz Navidad!

24.12.2005 13 °C

Merry Christmas to all! It´s 1:30pm on Christmas Eve here in Granada. Strange to not being going through the favourite routines back home. We have treated ourselves to a nice hotel (still pretty cheap as it´s the down season) and are enjoying real heat (i.e. not water heat which makes the room damp) and T.V. It´s all Spanish channels but we are enjoying it nevertheless.

Our friends have very much enjoyed Granada....all enjoy the small city feel and of course, the stunning buildings and tourist sites. I´m guessing that between all of us we have 300+ pictures of the Alhambra alone (a conservative guess??). The Sierra Nevada mountains are open for business and the view of the snow-capped mountains is beautiful.

Feeling slightly melancholy about leaving this country. We´ve been asked whether or not we worked here. The answer is no. Hence, the coming home early. We did look at some options here but we were never truly inspired by the amount of money to be made tutoring (some, like our sister do well once a clientele is built up) and being the off season, there just wasn´t a lot. Making enough for bills back home and here didn´t seem feasible. And, let´s face it, travelling just got in the way (i.e. fun)