Garrett in Spain!

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Posted 12-1-03:

well hello world! I know that it has been a while since you have heard from me but I was sick the week before last and missed every class so this past week I had to play catch up. since I am still sick I have not done much the past couple of weeks.

this past weekend I did travel though.I went to Ronda which is a small town about 3 hours from Granada famous for there history of bullfighting.
I have mentioned Ronda before in other emails.    when I went to Cadiz I was going to go to Ronda, remember,    and then I mentioned it again in my email about Seville saying that Ronda is famous for the starting the whole bullfighting thing. also if you have read Ernest Hemmingway you will know that he liked Ronda a lot and in his book for whom the bells tolls he writes about Ronda. 

Ronda is built around large cliffs that were formed by the tajo river. for those who have been asking, I am returning on the 20th and yeah I guess I am excited about returning to see the family.   

well anyway, on to the pictures.three weekends ago I went to the Alhambra with curro my host brother and his girlfriend Marta. the first picture is of them two in generalife.


 

the second is a picture of Puente Nuevo (new bridge) in Ronda which is pretty famous in Spain because in the past when someone did something wrong, they would get thrown off this bridge.   the bridge is approximately 350 feet high.

the third picture is a picture of the bottom of a mine I walked down.  the mine starts at the top of the cliffs and ends up in the river.    yeah there are a lot of steps to climb to get to the bottom. the picture is taken looking towards the new bridge.

 

the fourth picture is in the center of the Ronda bullring. it was a rush standing in the middle of a bullring. I was able to walk throughout all of the bullring and the corrals and whatnot. well I am sorry that I have to cut this short but I have a lot of homework for tomorrow.