Scrappy Trees and Graffiti

I wrote 3 blogs today (Monday, 11th), so keep on reading!

Here´s a little info on the ¨landscape¨of Spain. (Gran, I thought you´d appreciate this!) The trees here are all really scrubby-very short and stumpy. And if they´re tall, they´re very skinny and don´t grow out much. In Madrid, in the center of the Paseo del Prado, a main road, there was a ¨median¨of sorts, with cafés and such, with beautiful landscaping. But as for the untailored parts, the trees are quite scrappy compared to ours. They have some trees that look like cedars, but they´re pretty dinky!

There is also a TON of grafitti all over Spain-it´s quite bizarre. Mostly on newer stuff, but I have seen some on some of the old buildings, which is quite sad. I think it´s called ¨tagging¨, where groups or individuals (probably stupid teenagers) write their name or nickname everywhere in spray paint...it really takes away from the beauty of it all. Erinn, my MSU teacher, said none of that was here when she came before, so it´s a recent change that is not quite pretty.

Keep reading for Madrid trip notes!