I am a bad blogger... I proposed this embilical cord of communication and now I have starved the fetus, but fear not because
1) relatives & friends e-mailing and asking why I never upate my blog makes me feel loved
2)on monday I am getting a laptop, which means more internet access and potentially more spontaneous blogging
3)if I blogged alot alot, people should be worried, it would mean I wasn't getting out enough, so not blogging since August means I am having a great time in Spain.
4)I am going to begin "back blogging" today and fill you in on some of the fine happeninging in my life from the past few weeks. Starting with...

An Amazing Week in Granada

Granada is beautiful. Granada was first settled by native tribes in the prehistoric period, and was known as Ilbyr. Then the Romans colonised southern Spain and built their own city there and called it Illibris. The Arabs, invading the peninsula in the 8th century, gave Granada its current name. Granada was the last Muslim city to fall to the Christians in 1492, at the hands of Isabel and Ferdinand. So today in Granada all the signs are in Arabic and Spanish and the beautiful architechture strongly shows the Arabic influence as well, here is a picture of the Arabic Baths.



Other Granada highlights are the amazing tapas, you literally eat for free, order a drink and they bring you a hamburger... wonderful. Some bars even bring you a tapa menu and let you pick your tapa. The whole city has Flamenco in its veins, Camaron de la Isla, "the man who changed Flamenco", is larger than legendary.. I know this now because I didn't know who he was before I went to Granada and when this surfaced it was as if I had shot someones mother... so now I have a Camaron CD and a small poster hanging in my room... and of course the greatest Granada highlight, the graffiti.

Here is a chunk of "the blue wall" done by Peja, Diam, Hec and Stook...
















here is a beautiful piece by Reti





and here is a piece by the grafitista Ruby



and finally here are a few fotos of an amazing wall dedicated wall to la musica flamenco y la tierra de Andalucia, this wall is in Malaga, and was done by Presto, Peja, Hec, Stook, Lady & co... during my Granada visit. The face in the center is Camaron de la Isla, The women are Gitanas dancing flamenco and claping the rythm, and an Andalucian village with a beautiful piece incorporated ...Amazing.










I have so many photos of Graffiti in Granada,I had the luck of connecting with so many amazing artist there, it was very hard to pick what work to highlight on the blog, so I just chose some of my favorites done by some of my "Granada graffiti guides" who were fabulous and very generous with their time. With all the fotos I have (and am accumulating more rapidly) I want to publish a book... more on this to come.

A 6 hour bus ride back to Madrid on Wednesday, August 23 brought my Granada adventures to a close