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The return to Spain! Sevilla
February 21, 2008, 3:54 pm
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Returning to Spain and heading toward Madrid for our flight home we had a few days in Sevilla.  I’ll let the roll over captions do most of the explaining.

  Leaving Portugal in the south to Spain  Crossing the border via pasenger/car ferry  Bull fighting arena, Sevilla

  Catheral in Sevillias centre  Hello from Park Gardens in Sevilla  outside the Art Museum

  tile work on museum building exterior  )  Experiencing Churros for the first time

  “Churros” a Spainish specialty, primarily a breakfast delicacy its a deep fried airy donnut type consitancy  Shoe shoping attempts in the worlds shoe capital; Found the perfect pair but 4sizes too smalll; fail  Sevillas stunning cathedral

  Woow  One very big organ.. this is a third of it  Treasures of the cathedral  Choir pews

  the tomb of Christopher Columbus  Treasurey room  some Cathedral Bling  Up the Cathedrals tower with Bull fighting ring in the distance

  Looking down on the Cathedral grounds, its the biggest in the world, bigger than st peters in rome  Sevillas famous for its flaminco dancing. there were many fabricshops/dressmakers in the city   Me in a court of orange trees 

  Sevilla from the tower

Evidence here that we crossed paths with Rachel for a few hours before heading to the airport. Rach shared all her  crazy loose travel adventures with us. Shes off to Brazil now to see where her feet take her :) it was so enjoyable to see her.

  Madrids Central Park  Nina and Rachel Reunite in Madrid!  glimpses of the city centre



“A Coruna” Spain & “Porto” Portugal
February 15, 2008, 11:36 am
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Hi all

Heres a bit of a pictorial story again… A Coruna is on the very north west point of Spain and a stunning sea side city with delicious fresh seafood everywhere you look. We wined and dined both nights we were here and it such good food here and such a variety of seafood too. A Coruna`s speciality in Octopus.

We went on the Portugal after that as you can see, to Porto which has been a really nice city to experience. we have had lovely warm weather and have now gathered anappcreciation for traveling at this time of the year, the crowd and mass holiday-ers would change your experience of theres beautifull places an incredible amount.

 On to Lisbao now… take care everyone, miss ya.

  A Coruna Marina area  A Coruna`s stone hengey thing  A Coruna city coast line sculptures

  Walking about the coast line of the city  Surfing sculpture on the surfing beach base right in the city centre

  Healthy looking dinghys  A Corunas stunning coast  Pieter being Pieter on our first day in Porto Portugal! yipppee!  Riverfront strip of Porto

  Me and an epic church wall  View from high up in a residential part of Porto  Pieter and Porto

  River boats  “Croft” Port caves/cellars  Ruby and Pink ports  One of the 6 bridges

  Port Tasting! YUMMMMMMYY!  Porto from the centres bridge  River side port caves and city centre

  Rowers on the river  Ninzor and Speedter  Washing day

  The Central bridge



Spain; Barcelona & San Sebastian
February 9, 2008, 5:51 pm
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Hi all

Ive decided to post as i go, the thought of a the task at the end of two weeks sounds like a mamoth effort so heres some pictures of what we have been up to, Temperatures have been 18-20 degrees in the day which is nice. I”ll let the captions say the rest.

Nins

Barcelona toppless tour bus. Excellent choice and fun  catching some sunshine and breeze  Olympic park

Central Market Barcelona  Organic vegeterian meal delicious! 6dishes &over 20diff veges&riccota in this one!  Barcelona market again, sooo many stalls mostly fresh fish, meats &produce

Spot pieter in the locals  Pigeons! Pigeons! Pigeons!  hadcore spanish guys doing acrobatic brake dancing moves

One of many wacky weird street statue people  Mr froggy  Famous partially finished Gaudi church Barcelona  Part of Gaudis park also a world heritage site along with his unfinished church still in construction

Pillars in Gaudis park  Optimists on San Sebatian main waterfront  Fishing boats on the main waterfront of San Sebastian  SAn Sebatian beach/soccer feild

San Sebastian  Saturday soccer field  Us on the beach

Arrived off the night train at 7.45am to this  watched these guys for 20mins.. scurfboading the rebound waves  i went for some time out up here, diary writting, reading and soaking up the atmosphere

Another part of Gaudis world heritage park that over looks Barcelona