I promised myself I wouldn’t be an obnoxious, overly updating blogger so sorry about this. But…today was awesome!! My friend Jamie and I took an impulse daytrip to a random pueblo and ended up in Middle of Nowhere, Spain—aka Guadix—knowing absolutely nothing about the town except that it has caves. Now that’s what I call the start to an adventure. We spent awhile finding our way there but in a town roughly the size of a large closet, it wasn’t overly difficult. Set geographically in a place similar to the Grand Canyon, the inhabitants of Guadix long ago lived in caves they dug for themselves in the sides of canyon walls. In present day, 75% of these have been long abandoned, giving us ample opportunity to explore and go a bit beyond city limits. We climbed up a mesa and had lunch looking out at the view of miles around from our little perch and decided that because some of the caves were just so darn creepy that we should make a horror movie based off of them. Some in particular were pretty awful. For some reason or other, people came in and put institutional-looking doors on already dark, creepy caves, making them look like a setting straight out of Blaire Witch Project or something. We shot a bunch of footage for the heck of it in and around the caves, if it ever gets turned into a movie maybe I’ll end up posting it. It’ll be pretty horrific, that’s for sure. Not only is it low budget (ok fine, it was free), but it’s about two girls that get attacked while exploring. Original right? Either way, we had tons of fun making it and our legit (note sarcasm) acting will make it funny.

Jamie and I headed back to town after a while to explore and check out a cathedral we had seen from our mesa. Sadly, the cathedral was closed for the day after the morning masses so we wandered around, opening random doors and checking out whatever was available. Along the way we found a sketch looking fence keeping people from getting into a door about six feet above ground with the only method of reaching it being to climb over the pile of rubble built up in front of it. Tempting, very tempting. Especially if you’re a broke, adventuresome vagabond with a friend and nothing else to do. Sneaking past a policeman close by, we somehow managed to slip under the fence and run up the pile and through the door, having to jump into an open area beneath as the door wasn’t on the floor level on the other side either. The patio it led to was nothing special, so we decided to go up the sketch looking ladder to the right to see where it would lead. I love Europe, really I do. The ladder led up to a field with white flowers and an abandoned 15th century castle behind. We had the place completely to ourselves as we explored and climbed up all of the towers to get a look around at the city, caves, and snow capped mountains beyond. We left our mark on the castle and eventually headed back to the city proper, or what exists of it at least.

All in all, day very well spent. Hope you all have fantastic Sundays as well!

Love from Europe!