This Saturday me and some of my roommates went to the beach, Salobreña, which I visited last semester. I didn't take many pics this time, so enjoy from my last post!
To write a little more about it though, it's an hour away and a 12 euro roundtrip bus ticket from Granada. Super reasonable and a great way to get away from the dreary clouds that we've been having to deal with. The weather here has been changing from rainy and dark (fun for a few days, a week even, but after that the sun is so much more appreciated!), then sunny and a warm 60ish-65 degrees (never thought I'd describe 60 as warm - even hot!), back to a chilly 40-50 this week full of viento or wind.
But back to Salobreña (which is fun to say, pretty too!), we arrived there around noon, after being stuck in traffic for a good 20 minutes and watching some crazy hippie riding a bike on the wrong side of the highway with a wagon-full of fruit attached to the back and waving at us in the bus and all the cars he passed by. We set up camp (and by camp I mean we laid our backpacks down and stripped to our swimsuits) and soaked up the rays for a couple hours (after applying our sunscreen of course!)
Being restless, even in the drowsy nap-inducing sunshine, I read most of this fascinating book, The Song of the Exile by Kiana Davenport, about the little known "comfort girls" of WW2 and the war's effects on Hawai'i. I normally don't cry while watching movies or reading books...but I sobbed a couple times through this one...it was that powerful and beautiful.
Then once it started getting too breezy and the sun was setting, we climbed El Peñón (a little rocky hill/cliff at the end of the beach), got some ice cream and milkshakes and went to meet the bus. A lovely day trip and excellent restorative for the spirits. =)
I love to read at the beach too
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