Europe pics and some videos!
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Madrid, Spain
A theater...for some reason I took a pic of it...lol
The Royal Palace
Statue by the palace...the water was dirty
Statues by the palace...they amused my friends and I
Another statue
Statues on top of the palace
Mud guy...I saw people like this all over! And not just in Spain either. They kinda scared me
Uh...hi? And it that a guy or a girl?!
EPIC PALACE GATES
EPIC CHURCH!!!!! It's called Almudena's Cathedral
BELLS
lol...that sign says "Lualca" and I thought it said "Luca Luca" at first
Toledo, Spain
This is at a sword factory...fear me lol
Lotsa swords
Toledo!
The Tagus River
A church
Alcázar of Toledo
The flags on the balconies are for celebrating Corpus Christi
Cathedral of Toledo
Bell tower (I love this picture)
Yay cathedral!
This church was at a bull farm...it was 300 something years old!
I wanted to go insiiiide!
Madrid
Shower in first hotel...the door is a half door and so water goes everywhere...and there's a mirror right in front of you so you look at yourself while talking a shower...that was awkward
View from the hotel in Madrid...I took the view of all the hotels. And that pic was taken at around 10:30 PM
Storm cloud
Waiting to leave the hotel
Lovely scenery
Greeeeen
Windmills
Zaragoza, Spain
One of the most beautiful basilicas EVER. It's called Nuestra Señora del Pilar (Our Lady of the Pillar). It's said the Virgin Mary appeared to the apostle James by a pillar which is inside the basilica
Procession for Corpus Christi...there was really beautiful singing
Bell tower!
I loved these kids...they were also celebrating Corpus Christi and one loved to twirl her dress haha
Lunch
A walkway thingy
Fountain and a church
More of the basilica
Another church
Latin on that same church
So much for centering it...lol
A lovely fresco
Awesome pic!!
Aljafería...built by the Muslims
Awesome architecture inside
Courtyard with orange trees
Me inside
A well
Long table room thingy
Awesome ceiling! There was Latin written on the sides and it was so fancy I couldn't read it except for like two words
Courtyard again
View from hotel...isn't it lovely?
More scenery
GREEEEN
Barcelona, Spain
The beach!
The lovely Mediterranean Sea
Guys at the beach
Sara and Elisabeth (my friends)
Not sure what that was but it was awesome looking
Statue of Columbus
I'm bad at centering things
A lone bell lol
Nice church
Guitarist at flamenco dance
I think that's a church
View from hotel
I'M FAMOUS OMG
A hospital. A fancy hospital...
Girls on a bench designed by Gaudi...it was so comfortable!
Having fun lol
Gaudi didn't like straight lines...can you tell?
All of us by Gaudi's dragon
La Sagrada Família. It was started by Gaudi, he died before it was finished...it's still not finished yet and it's over 100 years old
We went up inside its towers...it was sooo awesome...this pic is looking down the middle of the stairs
View going up the tower
Sooo awesome
OMG GAUDI THEY'RE STRAIGHT LINES OMG
Latin!!
More Latin
Latin!!
Statues on the facade
A Roman wall
A bell tower at a marketplace
BELLLLL
And these aren't all the videos but here's the ones I've downloaded so far:
Bells in Spain: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-av3Vrfwv0
Bells at the church during my homestay...most beautiful ever!!: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rqw5WlGFqEk
Today's Latin: nemo hic adest illius nominis (there's no one here by that name)
"Show me the way to he hallways below Rome, I will be there. I've seen them burning in fire, they all bear too much to bear"--"Chalice of Agony," Avantasia
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Date: 2006-07-08 05:35 pm (UTC)By the way, did you get hit on by the Italian men alot? I have a friend that lived there for seven months (when he was still in college) and he said that the Italian men would even hang out at airports to hit on American women. O_o
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Date: 2006-07-08 05:36 pm (UTC)