Sunday 24 June 2007,
07:55: I hear the Star Wars sound of my mobile phone, the “cab” is ready at the front door. I give Charlie a huge hug, Erick (the gentleman ) puts my bags in the car and off we go! At the airport I don’t loose much time to check-in since I used the online checkin service of Brussels Airlines, so I deposit my huge bag (thx Eva ) at the drop-off point with no queue and hop to the gate. On the airplane I meet a woman who is returning to Almunacar where she has been living for a while, since Almunacar is the one city I know well at the costa del sol, the time flies by!

Once we arrive at the airport of Malaga the fun is over. At the arrival terminal the screens show that our luggage will arrive at bagage claim 21. when after 40 minutes nothing arrives but the screen changes to another flight, we get directed to nr 28, we wait for another 15 minutes: nothing.
Finally someone comes to explain something: they tell us to wait! After a few minutes we get directed to 23 where our luggage is arriving! Oef.

Anyway, I could tell you lots more about my trip from the airport to Granada, but let’s just keep it very short & simple.

Malaga airport – Malaga bus station – Granada bus station – Bus to the centre of Granada – Lisboa hostel – walking around town – 32°C & 38°C at the same time at different street corner – terrace – another terrace – vino, tapas … dodo!!

Maandag 25 juni 2007,
At 9:00 I’m expected to be at school! And luckily the school will take care of my luggage, they will pick it up from my hostal & bring to my appartment. After & hour of general explications the courses start. Every morning I have Spanish courses from 10:00 untill 13:30. At 19:15 my first Flamenco course starts. But more about the courses & the apartment later.

For those who are interested the address of my school:
Escuela Carmen de las Cuevas,
Cuesta de los Chinos 15,
18010 Granada

Because this is my birthday I’ve bought some Sangria & tapa’s to celebrate tonight. But aparantly since it’s my birthday there is this family of “Gitanes” who want to perform a Flamenco show especially for me!! Yeah right, the fact that I’m here in Granada during a Dance & Music festival might have something to do with it. Anyway it was a great birthday: talking Spanish, being at Albaicin & seeing the Alhambra every time I lift up my head, meeting new people from all around the world, Gaspacho, learning Flamenco & finishing off with a flamboyant Flamenco performance, well, it could have been worse ;o)
Hasta luego …