Spain – Tidy Teddy's Travels

Hola, Clase de Ms. England!!

On June 21, I flew to Spain with my mom and Tidy Teddy. We didn’t get there until June 22! It was a long flight! We flew into Madrid and immediately went to the Museo Nacional del Prado (the Prado Museum). We couldn’t take pictures inside, so I took a picture of Tidy Teddy with the museum map…which was in Spanish!

The next day, we drove 6 hours south to the Costa del Sol and found our hotel in Benahavis. It was beautiful!! Tidy Teddy liked to hang out at the pool a lot while we were there. He always remembered to wear sunscreen, though!

We spent a couple of days driving around looking at Southern Spain. A lot of villages were made up of buildings and houses that were all white and built on hills. Very pretty but very hard to walk through…lots of ups and downs!

One day we went to a beach that had black sand! This sand was very hot, and we had to run to the water to cool our feet! Tidy Teddy gathered some of the sand for Mrs. Thomas since she collects sand from around the world.

We spent a whole day in Granada, Spain which is famous for the Alhambra, which is a palace and fortress complex built in the 1300’s. Sultans, kings, and queens lived here! The picture of Tidy Teddy and me together was taken in the room where Christopher Columbus asked Ferdinand and Isabella to give him money for his voyage in 1492. In another room, called The Hall of Two Sisters, the designs on the wall inspired M.C. Escher in his mathematics work and future artwork!

With only a few days left in Spain, Tidy Teddy, my mom, and I went to a few other towns to see lots of interesting things! We saw windmills, castles, and bullrings. Even though bullfighting is a very historically popular activity in Spain, we did not go to see a bullfight. Tidy Teddy did hang out with ToroLoco (Crazy Bull) for a little bit, though!