Andalusia. is. beautiful.

But not in the breathtaking-white-sand-white-beaches way. Its beautiful in the way that when you're walking along a narrow cobblestone street at night, you hear flamenco music and have to go flat against the wall to let the motorcycles pass. And that outside of the mesquitas and catedrales there are dancers and gypsies and accordion players.

And in the way that there are little "pueblos" in the mountains where all the houses are white and where the kids hang out in the abandoned castle (a real castle) on friday nights.

Basically, andalusia, where I went this past week with a school group, is wonderful. We went Sunday morning and arrived in SEVILLA where we met students from Northern Spain and Southern Spain. We explored the Giralda and did tourist-y things. Monday we spent in CADIZ, which has beautiful streets and good ice-cream (:

Tuesday was a hike in the mountains with churros and then to RONDA for shopping. Wednesday we went to MÁLAGA and did the museum route. Thursday we rode bikes high in the mountains in via verde and then had the afternoon to explore the castle in the little pueblo where I was living for the week. Later I played soccer and got the chance to ride a motorcycle. Which was AWESOME. Then Friday we set off for CÓRDOBA where we visited the mosque/cathedral and other places that they told us were very important and historic (but I can't seem to remember the names of...?). We ate at a buffet and walked around the beautiful, narrow streets with names like "street of the flowers" and "street of good health". Saturday we had mostly free- to shop, walk, explore, eat at burger king... things of this nature. We then left beautiful Andalusia.

Andalusia....