I feel like I should have mentioned this earlier.

For my January term I, and a group from Gallatin at NYU, are off to Spain and Morocco for a couple weeks. We just arrived in Cordoba today after spending the last few days in Madrid (and one in Toledo!). So I guess here are some quick highlights:

• Sometimes it seems like Spain has a vendetta against free public wifi
  
• Walking around Madrid is loads of fun
  
• Having epic group meals are fantastic; especially when your university is paying for both the food and wine.
  
• El Prado is a really cool museum as far as art museums go.
  
• Found a Canary Island restaurant (El Escaldon); ate there. Barraquito is a wonderful desert.
  
• I love the Spanish style of eating out; ordering tapas and sharing and talking for an hour.
  
• Also: sidra is nice.
  
• I haven't used my Spanish in years; it's so much fun to use it again.
  
• I realize that I understand some slang thanks to playing the original Uncharted in Spanish.
  
• Toledo is freaking awesome man.
  
• No really, it is.
  
• I had to fight the impulse to start climbing around/inside buildings
  
• I swear if we'd pushed that one block in a secret passage way would open
  
• Maybe we had to pull a candle holder
  
• Hitting up a bar at 12am and hanging out for two hours drinking cidra talking rubbish is one of my new favorite things
  
• Went to the royal palace in Madrid. Touched a lot of stuff, because you gotta feel history, man. I frequently heard "¡No toca!"
  
• Heard a cover of "Violet Hill" in a square played on a pair of cimbalons. Yeah, I had to look up the instrument
  
• I haven't been to El Corte Ingles since I was in the Canary Islands (bought a pair of Visorak there in '05)
  
• Cordoba makes me want to run and climb on everything
  
• I think I'm going to write an Uncharted fanfic set in Spain.
  

So there's my adventure so far. Man, I haven't been to Europe since... 2009? Haven't been to Africa since 2005, so I'm looking forward to Morocco too.

Anyway. I need to go. More exploring and adventuring awaits.