Author Archives: Kasper

(English) Going to Paris

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(English) “Yes they could”

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(English) Responsible citizenship

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(English) Unwanted residents, hiking and how to buy cleaning powder

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(English) Pictures from Filzbach

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(English) The case of sustainability

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(English) Arrival

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Changing the guards

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A cultural day in Madrid!

Arriving at Madrid at 1 o´clock this night was not as troublesome as we had expected. After a small detour with the metro we arrived at our hotel, found something to eat and were in bed by 3 o´clock.
Today has been very active. After an Andalucian style breakfast we went down to the Museo Nacional [...]

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The final day in school…

Today was the last day in school. Even though the motivation might not have been as high this week as it has been a good week alltogether. We were moved up a nudge in levels in the beginning of the week. Jakob continued on with the more advanced stuff, while I decided to follow a [...]

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Tour de Andalucia I: Nerja & Lake Viñuela

As some of you might know Nina has come to visit us for a couple of days. Nina and I haven’t had the opportunity this summer to go away on vacation together so we thought that we’d drive around the countryside in Andalucia for a couple of days exploring the small villages.
We headed off today [...]

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Poeta en Nueva York

…(or the Poet in New York) is a dance performance running in the gardens of the Alhambra (”Generalife”) until the 31st of August. We went to see this excellent performance the same day that Nina (Kaspers girlfriend) arrived to visit us. It is a flamenco dance performance written and choreographed by the famous spanish coreograph [...]

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We have now disabled the requirement to log on to comment on posts because it seems to malfunction. This means that commenting will now be much easier.

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Alpujarras III: Trevélez

A 45 minutes drive on narrow mountain roads later we arrived at Trevélez. This small village is often said to be the highest village in Spain, elevated 1476 m. above the ocean, and being so is often used as an offset for mountaneers venturing off into the Sierra Nevada.
Our first goal in Trevélez was lunch. [...]

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Alpujarras I: Lanjarón

This morning we got up at 8.00, oversleeping half an hour. We met up at the “Palacio de Congresos y Exposiciones” (The congress center) with the bus and the about 20 other people going on the trip to the Alpujarras. And guess what: We have our camera up and running. You can see pictures from our [...]

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Competition!!!

All real websites and blogs needs to have competitions - and so does ours. We therefor now launch the big “What you can’t miss in Granada”-Competition.
The competition is simple. Find a site, monument or other place of interest within the vicinity of Granada and write a comment on the page GRANADA with info on the place. [...]

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Trying to TRANSFORM…

Yesterday we wanted to put our spanish skills to a test, so we got tickets to the brand new Transformers Movie. It was on in a cinema not far from where we live in a shopping mall by the name Neptuna. We have marked it in the map in the map section.
In Spain they don’t [...]

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And the studying goes on…

As you might have noticed, it has been a quiet couple of days here at J|K. We have now entered the past tense forms in the spanish language and they are to say the least a bit complicated.
The first week went on with present tence forms and “Presence Perfect” (Preterito Perfecto) forms and the bit of past [...]

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I wonder…

One more small thing. Today was the release of the New 7 wonders of the World. In Granada there was a gigantic party to celebrate a potential appointment of the Alhambra as one of the new 7 wonders.  21 sites were nominated amonst these the Alhambra. The appointment was made by vote by people from all [...]

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Alhambra Adalánte

As written earlier, Alhambra is an astonishing castle built by an Arabian king in the 13th century. The gigantic castle and it’s palace and gardens dwell on the side of a cliff in the great Sierra Nevada mountain range.
Today we decided to put down our books and go study one of the most significant remnants of [...]

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