Friday 20 January 2012
We slept in until 1 PM! Dian made lentil soup while Myles and Nicole slept even later. After a LOT of time on the question of where to take our van for service, Charles drove in to spend hours just trying to determine anything at two VW dealerships, one gigantic where you needed an appointment to even have it looked at (and wearing a suit might've helped) and another large but not gigantic one where a mechanic took mercy and time and set the whole thing up for the following Monday. Whew. Duty done, mission almost accomplished, Charles then bought a few groceries. Back at base, he checked ferry prices to Morocco and attended to some other business online.
Around 4 Nicole and Myles took a bus into Granada to buy a souvenir Myles had seen on our first day. It was a beautiful blue cloth doorway tapestry, a great memory of Arabic Granada, suitable for dorm rooms. When they returned we decided to splurge on our camp restaurant’s paella made by chef Jose, brought back to our room, and that turned out to be a great choice. In a tribute to his delicious meal (the paella came with chicken and seafood and there were little kebes – empanadas with olives -that he sent over to our room) we marched over to his restaurant and sang a Spanish song after which he smiled broadly and thanked us.
That evening Myles packed his bags for home and before he zipped up his duffel he was just able to stuff in the dog slippers Nicole had given him.
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