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Gallery › Spain

  • View of the Mediterranean from out campsite
  • Barcelona Cathedral
  • Some busker Glenn thought was cool
  • Replication of the old Roman aquaduct
  • Kayla in a lollie store
  • Brain lollie.....didn't make us any smarter:(
  • one of the many small streets of Barcelona
  • Entry to a little hidden markets
  • Spanish tap dancing busker
  • Parc Reial market square
  • Collection of artists on La Rambla
  • Living Statues
  • Tapas, Paella and Sangria
  • Spray paint artist
  • Artist drawing Cooper
  • The finished product
  • The streets of La Rambla
  • Sagrada Familia
  • The line of people (going around the corner) to go inside Sagrada Familia
  • One of Gaudi's buildings
  • Kayla DJing on the decks at the Mac store
  • Door knocker in the shape of a hand
  • Old style artistic rendering
  • 2nd largest circular stain glass window (just behind Notre Dame)
  • Another one of the many specialist markets throughout Barcelona. This one offered gourmet cheese and honey products
  • Parliament of Catalunya
  • Parked in the local supermarket carpark spring cleaning the van... in winter
  • Our view of the sunrise over the beach from the van
  • Glenn testing out the dawn function on the camera
  • Kayla proudly standing outside the car we got locked out of while the car was running
  • Our saviour
  • Authentic Spanish chocolate Churros
  • Statue of a human pyramid. The locals actually do this.
  • View of one of Tarragonas beaches and the Mediterranean
  • Roman amphitheater
  • Tarragona as it was in Roman times
  • Tile mosaic of Medusa's head. Impressive tones comprised of bits of tile made ~2000 years ago...
  • Roman sculpture for fertility. Can you spot the face
  • Inside the Roman walls
  • The dark sands of the Almerian beaches
  • The optical illusion pavement that rolled like waves when you walked on it (and stared at it...)
  • Yay for warmer weather!!
  • We reversed the car up to the beach and ate dinner to the sunset
  • The never ending rows of wind turbines (intermingled with solar farms) throughout Spain
  • First views of Sierra Nevada
  • We awoke to snow!!
  • Who's idea was it that antifreeze wouldn't be needed now we were heading south?!?!
  • Kayla all geared up to climb mountains
  • Our first views of Granada on the climb up Cerro Huenes
  • We were being hunted by mountain goats
  • Our car is down there
  • Getting close to the top and the van looks sooo little (this is zoomed in)
  • 150m from the top and the car is just visible
  • The other peak we didn't climb up
  • The really big mountains in the distance. Ours was about 2000m (we started climbing from about 1200m). The largest peak is over 4000m and requires a level of expertise we didn't have.
  • One of the many terraces within the Citadel
  • A small (and one of the less intricate) examples of paving using only stones and moss
  • View of the main palace and fort from the general life i.e. Palace the royalty went to when the wanted some downtime.
  • One of our first looks at the intricately carved walls within most of the buildings. The detail and variety was amazing especially considering it was all done by hand.
  • They didn't teach that in woodwork class
  • One of the royalty going for a leisurely stroll
  • Stairway containing channels for water to run down railing.
  • Another shot of the Palace and fort yet to be visited
  • These grounds would have been a gardeners dream and the place would look even more amazing in spring
  • The mote
  • A small shop on the way where woodcarvers create intricate mosaic chessboards and tables (on the left)
  • The frist rooms of the Palace Navaries
  • View of Granada from a window city
  • The carved inscriptions were usually praises to God
  • The ceilings were so intricately carved that we wondered if it was to force you to look up to God
  • Inner court yard
  • Many panelled doors offering different views of the court yard
  • The fort
  • Views of the Sierra Nevada ranges from the fort
  • Cool building in Granada
  • Some guy relaxing far below on the wall
  • View of the fort from the highest point
  • View of the village as we are arriving.
  • Cool cloud formations that were rolling over the peaks
  • Escalator to the beginner area :)
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