I was in Spain Bitches! (Part 1)

I'm finally back from spain and man, it was awesome. It's been a let down to come home and go to work and the dentist (my nerve ending playing the part of grass and his drill playing the part of a weed wacker).

I have a ton of stories to share, from gypsies to to castle and cathedrals. We start in Madrid and the Plaza Mayor. This is a rocking Plaza where they have concerts and dinner and street performer and during weekend a flea market. You can rent one of the rooms for cheap, because it's very loud.

This the palace in Madrid. We missed it because some big chinned royalty were getting married.

Madrid is a relatively young city for Europe only being founded like four or five hundred years ago. So this is one of the older building here.

This is the most visited museum in all of Spain. The Museum of Ham. They have pork legs, hooves, hair and all hanging, rotting, until they are just right and delicious. They love there ham. Seriously though, like 75% of our meals were ham and cheese bocadillos.

So for the first couple of days our tour guide warns us to be careful of gypsies, that they will steal your things, and try and decieve you. So we travel 3 hours to Granada to the hotel that is right out of the Shining and what does our tour guide suggest...that we go to the gypsy caves for sangria and flamenco. We load up onto the gypsy vans and they proceed to drive like 1000mph through narrow corridors to get us to their cave.

Yeah, that was exciting. Seriously though when we did go back to Madrid, we had quite a run with with some pick pockets. First at dinner, a man had his hand under an umbrella trying to get into my back pack, and then latter on the subway a lady put her coat over Katie's purse and tried to unzip it. Luckily they were quite unsuccesful.

After they finished dancing they took us of a walking tour and we headed over to a scenic view of the Alhambra also known as the Red Castle.

This is the place where Columbus first went to ask for money to sail to India. Spanish architecture was quite fun because the Muslims had controlled the country for seven hundred years, and when the Catholics came, they weren't keen to tear it down. They just added their stuff to it. So all the castle, cathedrals and palaces are a wonderful hodgepodge

After Granada we drove down to the Costa del Sol to swim in the Mediteranean. There were lots of naked boobies at the beach.

We then went to Morroco where we passed the rock of gibralter, and I rode a camel, bought a rug and ate lunch with a fire dancer.

Morroco was nothing short of amazing. It was like going back in time 100 years. It was something so different that anything that I was used, I would recommend it for everyone.