At the Alhambra
This morning I woke up at 6:30 am to get ready and go to the Alhambra, the big deal attraction in town. We, a couple others from the hostel and myself, learned that there is a credit card line on the other side of the regular line that is usually shorter. We got to the Alhambra ticket window at 7:20 and the regular line was enormous. They sell 400 tickets for the morning session and 400 for the afternoon. We found the credit card line and it wasn’t very big. We waited until tickets went on sale at 8:00 and were able to get tickets to enter the main attraction at 9am. The Alhambra has several historic sites that each on their own, are nice but not spectacular however all of them in the same place is marvelous. There are towering walls that overlook the entire city and have the excitement of being on top of a mountain without having to actually climb one. Everything at the Alhambra was very well maintained and clean. I felt almost as if I was in an amusement park.
While walking around I heard some birds chirping under an archway and looked up to see them just in time to avoid the falling bird poop.
I spent the afternoon seeking out the amazing graffiti that is in many places around town. I’m not a big fan of someone writing their name, but when they make pictures, I am very impressed. Be sure to check out the pictures they are incredible.
Matt has been sick the entire time I have known him and he finally broke down and went to the doctor yesterday. The doctor told him he was missing the good bacteria from his intestines and shouldn’t eat for 24 hours and then only to have soup and gave him some medicine. Unfortunately for him the liquid diet does not include alcohol.
I was talking with John from Australia and he was telling me about a program government and large companies offer their employees. The companies realize that after young people have been employed for a few years they have an itch to scratch. The young people had been in school for 4-7 years and then started working and might want to explore the world. The companies also realize the cost to find the right replacement and to have proper training. The companies then allow the young employees to leave for a period of a year or more to pursue their other ambitions in hopes that they will return and become career employees.
I’m sitting in a bar right now drinking beer, eating olives (I don’t really like olives), while playing on the internet. A elderly woman just walked in and ordered a large glass of milk, quickly drank it, shouted things in Spanish at a commercial on tv and then left the bar. I’m at a bar drinking beers playing on the internet because the internet at our hotel is not very good, it keeps disconnecting and going very slow. I went to a coffee shop, but beers are cheaper and I like them better.
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