Welcome Back, Spain!

Journal Entry: April 12th-13th, 2005

¡Hola! Welcome back to Spain

We arrived in the early evening in Huelva. Like the last time when Attila and I first met back in Morocco traveling with our other travelmates, Huelva had to nothing offer back then and it still doesn't! To bring back good memories, we actually found the same hostel we stayed in back in 2002. Cheap and basic, no food, no service, here's your bed, checkout time is at 11am, pay now, Buenas Noches! We left the following morning for Sevilla to catch a train to Granada.


On to Granada! We left at 9am to catch a bus to Sevilla Santa Justa's train station to head out to Granada. The train ride was amazing, fast train zipping through the Spanish terrain, passing everything in sight. The train ride was only 3 hours. 3pm, we arrived in Granada. Bringing back some good memories again, but I had to be open to new adventures as well. We walked a good 30 minutes to find this Backpacker's Resort of a hostel in town. With our heavy backpacks and hot weather, we had to learn to ajust to this place. However, we weren't the only backpackers around, there were plenty of guys & girls going towards us, away from us, left, right, everywhere. "This is the travel life!"

Welcome to the Funky Backpacker’s Hostel!

For only €15.00 Euros a night, this place was beyond worth it. The rooms had bunks beds, a safe to put away the most valuables items. Small bathrooms and shower. Rooms were not divided according to sex.

This was the perfect place to stay while in Granada. The People we've met were amazing, especially the hostel staff.

That same day, we decided to go out and get some tapas. Tapas, for those who never been to Spain: Tapas are small meals or snacks, in which you receive once you order some beer. Tapas are free along with the beer, which you paid for. Primeros, Segundos and Terceros, basically you get your first taps with your first order of beer and Segundos (or second serving) with you order the next thing of beer. And the rest is very simple.


In Granada, many university students, as well as backpackers usually go to Tapas bars for the cheap price of beer with food. Makes sense? That is how we spent our first day in Granada.





The rest of the day, we just hung out with our new traveling neighbors, exchanging stories, past history, ideas and so on.