Europe pics and some videos!
Jul. 8th, 2006 09:28 am
The People to People group!
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)