12 May 2013 · Comment
Granada
Hello! You know what’s great? Everything. I am just feeling so wonderful and at peace and excited about the future. This morning I left Bled in Slovenia for Hallstatt in Austria and next week Jovanna and I are going to Istanbul which we’ve been talking about doing for nine freaking years and then I’m gonna see my parents and then I’m gonna see Michael and then David and I are going to drive from Texas to California and then I start working at a fantastic studio with fantastic people in a fantastic city! How did I ever get so lucky? The world may never know.
So these pictures are about… an eternity late. But I think it’s ok. This blog is just late! Because if I try too hard to keep it timely then that means I’m not living my life or whatever! One thing that does feel funny is that I think I was much better at posting pictures in a timely manner on the first hobo trip, and it’s impossible to not compare this trip to the last one. Like, I feel like I am coming across as very grumpy and crotchety this time around as compared to the last time, but I’m pretty sure that if anything I’m happier now than I was back then, I’m just trying to be more authentic this time. At least that’s what I’m telling myself since it’s easier to believe that than thinking I’ve become permanently embittered. Ok yeah, pictures!
This is the Alhambra in Granada! It was just lovely. A few hours before I took this, I met some dudes in the hostel who were from LA and San Francisco, and the LA guy had a touch of the “I’m a TRAVELER, not a TOURIST” attitude that I mentioned last time, so he said only tourists pay extra to go in the palace part of the Alhambra and he, not being a tourist, just went to the surrounding grounds, but the palace is the coolest part where stuff like this was found! If being a traveler-not-a-tourist means not seeing the coolest parts of stuff and also being smug then I’m happy to be a tourist. Can we all just agree that nobody’s way of going on vacation is better than anyone else’s way? Unless you’re smug, in which case your way is automatically the worst and you lose at traveling, ha ha.
Some tiles at the Alhambra. You know where these were? Also in the palace. Actually pretty much all of these pictures are from inside the palace because it was so pretty! That dude was silly.
Some crazy Arabic stonework! It kind of reminds me of “Habibi” which is a super comic book that I highly recommend!
Some more crazy castle stonework.
Ahhhh this is great. This is just so great. Someday when I’m king, I’m gonna have a palace just like this erected.
I thiiiiink this is some really old and classy graffiti on the grounds of the Alhambra! I tried to verify this on the googles but it didn’t bring up anything useful. Just like, pictures of regular graffiti around Granada. Which, granted, is pretty adorable:
This one means “smoking kills”! So courteous! Or like this one:
That’s some real cute graffiti right there.
This might… actually be from Madrid. Ha ha, it’s a nonsense picture anyway so who cares. And it’s crooked! Neat!
Another nonsense picture but this one’s actually from Granada! Some squares of light on some rocks, yurp.
Just a building that I fell in love with. It’s next to the Mirador de San Nicolás, which is a plaza overlooking the city filled with people playing instruments and singing and generally being delightful hippies.
More building!
A blah bloo blee blah.
And another building that looks almost exactly like the other building!
Huhuhuh cat, you look riDICulous!
A giant door in a non-palace part of the Alhambra.
A courtyard in the palace! I don’t know how intentional this was, but this courtyard looks super similar to the DreamWorks Glendale studio. I mean, not this picture in particular but this area. I tried to take a picture that showed the similarities well but it just came out looking like a foot.
A blurry picture of the inside of the palace! I took a non-blurry one too but I think the blurriness makes it look nice.
Annnnd some arches inside the palace! Yay!
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