Yesterday was the groundbreaking for a castle to be built in my hometown of Morgan Hill, CA. No, we're not back to the 14th century here in the south county. It's all for science.
A few weeks ago, we spent our vacation in Spain - my favorite country in Europe.
Fantastic food, great people and culture. My wife, who comes from China, was in Europe for her first time, and loved it. We did a two day trip to Granada in Andalusia to visit the (original) Alhambra. Not only did I always want to see it, I wanted to see it before we have our own Alhambra in the little town in live in here in California. Anaheim has Sleeping Beauty's castle, the fairy tale copy of Schloss Neuschwanstein in Germany, and Morgan Hill will have the Alhambra, an ivory tower copy of the Alhambra in Granada for mathematics researchers.
Now, if you want to visit the original Alhambra in Granada, which is a good idea, I'd say, don't be as naive as we were. We arrived in the afternoon, and everybody was laughing at us - tickets to get into the Alhambra sell out fast and are gone in the morning. Either pre-order them months in advance, or stay in Granada and go, like I did, at 6am in the morning to the entrance, just to wait two hours in an increasing growing queue waiting for tickets. Then, go and admire the wonderful architecture, which is, as I now know, an example for non-euclidean geometry. Hence the Math castle in Morgan Hill. I'm not sure latter will even be open to the public. Your entrance ticket might be a Ph.D. in Math, and that's harder to get then standing in line at 6am in Granada - especially given the great chocolate bread and cafe they sell to the early morning crowd.
| Neuschwanstein, Bavaria | Anaheim, California |
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| Granada, Spain | Morgan Hill, California |
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