A New Journey Begins
A New Journey Begins
Travel Day:1024 miles, 35,000 ft ascent, 9 hrs.Daily Drena: Seattle Beckons We started the morning with some last minute packing and welcoming our lovely housesitter, Brandon, who is going to fit in just fine around here as he pulled up…
The City
The City
Seattle Biking Day:39.55 miles, 1030 ft ascent, 5 hrs. 50 min.Daily Drena: Miles and Smiles with Miley After a restful evening, we awoke refreshed and began preparations for the bike ride around Lake Washington. This began with a finely prepared…
Cattle Point
Cattle Point
Cattle Point Biking Day:21.11 miles, 1338 ft ascent, 3 hrs. 2 min.Daily Drena: Room with a View Today had an unfortunate start of a call from Brandon. Panicking, I answered the phone thinking that Sophie had escaped and run off,…
Tour de San Juan
Tour de San Juan
Roche Harbor & Lime Kiln Biking Day:38.02 miles, 2417 ft ascent, 8 hrs. 15 min.Daily Drena: Balance Today started with an early wake-up call from the 8:00 ferry blowing it’s horn as it left the harbor, but we managed to…
Deserted Isle
Deserted Isle
Shaw Island Biking Day:15.96 miles, 1332 ft ascent, 3 hrs. 21 min.Daily Drena: Quiet Roads We were up early this morning, but didn’t have plans to catch the ferry to Shaw until later, so meandered into the downtown to grab…
Old Pottery Road
Old Pottery Road
Orcas Island Biking Day 1:25.87 miles, 2560 ft ascent, 8 hrs. 17 min.Daily Drena: You Don’t Mind This morning had a pretty fog on the water before dissipating shortly thereafter. We relaxed in the condo waiting until we saw the…
Enroute to Kangaroo
Enroute to Kangaroo
Orcas Island Biking Day 2:28.92 miles, 2759 ft ascent, 7 hrs. 25 min.Daily Drena: Scenic Stops We enjoyed our morning breakfast in the balcony, taking in the last of the sight before packing up and heading off to our first…
The Popsicle that Missed the Ferry
The Popsicle that Missed the Ferry
Orcas Island to Lopez Island Biking Day:30.46 miles, 2362 ft ascent, 9 hrs. 19 min.Daily Drena: The Seven Three Minute Stops Jill and Charles provided a gourmet breakfast this morning, of honey-glazed croissant with fresh jam, steelhead trout, egg frittata,…
Iceberg Point
Iceberg Point
Lopez Island Biking Day:34.00 miles, 1845 ft ascent, 5 hrs. 48 min.Daily Drena: Side by Side A dappled sunlit morning greeted us from within our tent. We wandered over to the outdoor kitchen to make our simple breakfasts of oatmeal…
Homeward Bound
Homeward Bound
Travel Day:1162 miles, 35,000 ft ascent, ~17.5 hrs.Daily Drena: Home Sweet Home Trip Stats:233.89 miles15643 ft. ascent51 hrs. 17 min. exploring The morning was spent wandering around La Conner (on foot, not bike…), popping around the various art galleries, book…

The big Alhambra visit

Daily Drena: We are the ants

After admiring the Alhambra for weeks, today is the day we finally toured the inside. We went with our fellow students, guided by the owner of the school. What a magnificent place, with so many wonderful architectural details and beautiful patterns.

After all the Spanish in the morning and the entire tour in Spanish for 4 hours in the afternoon, my brain was definitely full. Spanish consumes my dreams too!

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Park in the city

Daily Drena: Nature, but not really

After class today, we trekked to the grocery store, but on our way we detoured to a large park in the city. It was a little disappointing as the streets next to it were very noisy. It was very manicured and probably is much prettier in the spring and summer. The museum of a famous writer (Federico García Lorca) was also closed, probably because of siesta. The siesta time sure makes it tricky to see things, especially since we have class all morning until 1:30, and so many places are closed from 1:30-2 to 4-4:30.

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3rd Week of School

Daily Drena: School is time consuming

Yesterday began our third week of classes. This week we have gained two more students, Imogen, from Germany who is also half English, and Alexandra, who lives in France but is Greek. So now we have three students from Germany and thus this language is popping into the classroom more, however both German and English get reprimanded by the professors whenever it slips in. We have returned to the big classroom we originally started in, but I personally prefer the smaller class size. We will lose Anna and Felix at the end of the week, so maybe we’ll shrink back up for our final week.

Even though the classes go by fast, the time they take plus the homework, plus our regular work that has been extra busy this week, plus trying to fit in an adventure makes us feel like we need a vacation soon. 🙂 We really need to start planning where we’re going to go next. Maybe it’s time for the beach!

 

 

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