So it's been a week since K left, and both of us are suffering already! He went home to have to deal with the death cloud that is his sister and I'm home dealing with the complete and utter boredom that is... Houston.
Luckily for me, I start work on Monday. I'm still trying to find suitable retainers for my piercings (the ones I bought are way to obvious and would fall out repeated). I bought some push-in biofit retainers that should arrive tomorrow, so hopefully they work.
And it seems that, finally, I will be going to Barcelona! Yes yes, in September K's sister has a her wedding in Spain (a town close to Malaga) and we've decided to do a bit of traveling before then. Soooo, we will leave a week ahead of time, fly from Edinburgh to Barcelona and stay for four days, then head down to Malaga and then fly back to Edinburgh on Sunday. I was trying to find a way for use to go to Tangier, but it's too expensive to go at the moment. Maybe we'll just plan to go to Morocco for three months or so at some point after my masters *mouth waters*.
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Hey, Congrats on getting in the program you wanted in Edinburgh!
I highly recommend that you make it to Morocco. It's an amazing country!
I don't think that you're missing out on anything by not going to Tangier. I've never been there, but I haven't heard the greatest things about it. But do make sure you make it to Marrakesh while you are living in Scotland!
I'm back in Canada at the moment (I've only been back a few weeks), and before I left France I spent a month and a half travelling around Spain and Morocco. It was amazing! :)
Really? It looked like it would be an interesting place.
I'm dying to go to Morocco now, I don't know when we'll get around to it but it's going to happen. I'm really happy I'll finally be able to go to Barcelona though!
What was your favorite place in Spain/Morocco? Do you have any suggestions on where to go to hang out in Barcelona or Marrakesh?
Apparently Tangier has a lot of shady characters around and is kind of sketchy because it is a port city, but that's just what I heard from a friend that went there and what I've read online.
I've never been there before and I thought the same thing you did, because that's initially where I was thinking of going when I went to Morocco.
When you go to Barcelona I would recommend the el Born area around a big church called Santa Maria del Mar. There are a lot of trendy/arty stores, cafés and cool gothic architecture. That's the area I stayed in and I really liked it.
I went to Barcelona on my first trip to Spain and I liked it the best compared to all the places that I visited on this past trip (Madrid, Palma de Mallorca and the Jaen region). I've never been south though, and I've heard that it's really beautiful.
As for Marrakesh, I didn't spend as much time there as I would of liked (I'm dying to go back!), so I don't really have any place to recommend that you couldn't find in a guide book.
However, I do highly recommend that you do a Sahara Trek. I did a 3-day trek and it was the highlight of my entire trip! Just let me know if you want more details!
Hey hey!
I'm excited for you!
I've been to Spain 3 times and have been to Morocco twice. Barcelona is pretty nice. We stayed on La Rambla and there was tons going on. I've also been to the south; never to Malaga but I have to been Algeciras twice (sleepy town but very Spanish) and Seville once (beautiful city but very spread out)!
I've been to Tangier twice, but only spent an afternoon there each time. It's a dusty, boring town from what I've seen, but I have a friend who stayed there for a couple of days and absolutely loved it.
It shouldn't be too expensive to get there; you can take the ferry there from Algeciras (that what I did both times) and I think that I only paid 30 euros (but the last time I did that was in 2006 so prices have already gone up). Malaga is not that far from Algeciras from what I remember so you could take a cheapie bus between the two cities.
Anyway, have a great time and keep on writing- I love hearing about your European adventures!
What was looking expensive was actually getting down to the south of Spain (by air) because, originally, we were thinking of flying down to morocco and then taking the ferry back to spain to go to the wedding. Plane tickets to Morocco are expensive (at least the ones I've seen). It's kind of weird to organize it because we have to be back my Friday for the wedding.
I guess, we COULD leave earlier, go to Barcelona, take a train down to Algeciras and take the ferry to Morocco? I'll have to look into that.
Thanks, I will definitely keep blogging (especially since I'm so bored!). hahah
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