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Pictures from Spain
Arrived in Valencia
There are a lot of impressive old churches in Valencia too
We don't know where these rocks came from
There are many hippies in Granada who specialize in impressive traits such as creating huge bubbles for children to chase. An admirable profession.
They like big plazzas. Who dosn't?
This building with a courtyard is where the Arabs had apartments for any travelers to their city who needed a place to sleep. Free of charge. When the Christians took over they just used it to store coal.
This and the next few pictures are from the Generalife. The Generalife is basically a great big beautiful garden with many water features and very pretty palaces. The Generalife was created by the Arabs, and was used by the leader as a retreat from the busy Alhambra. Both the Alhambra and the Generalife were built up and maintained by the Christians when they conquered Granada.
This is in the courtyard of one of the many palaces they walled city called the Alhambra. A Christian king (Charles the V, I think...) had this built.
From here we can see part of the wall surrounding the city, and the highest watch tower in the Alhambra. The Alhambra housed Sultans, soldiers, and wealthy and poor citizens.
Near this tower are the barracks, where the soldiers were housed.
The tallest tower
A kid that we met. He was from Tennessee. He thought he was really cool because he was traveling across Europe by himself. But I thought he was just kind of annoying.
Doors. You will see a lot of pictures of doors.
The detail in the palaces in the Alhambra built by the Arabs is amazing.
And here Taylor is pointing to the Generalife from inside the Alhambra.
This is not in the Alhambra anymore. This is Fighting Kids Street.
This is the courtyard of a very old hospital that is still fully functional.
This is outside of the Carjuta Monastery in Granada. And, because in Spain, similar as in Italy, everything shuts down from about 1 pm to 4 pm, we had to wait outside here for over an hour. Sometimes it's difficult to plan around the siesta.
Inside the Monastery there was a lot of art focusing on the prosecution of Christian monks in England. We found it kind of amusing, and that is why we took pictures of it even though it was against the rules.
These pictures are from the Alcabayzin, an ancient neighborhood from the Arab times built into the hill above downtown Granada.
And this one is for Monson. We thought of you the second we saw this. It even looks like your handwriting!
That's the Alhambra over there that we can see from Alcabayzin.
Inside the big Cathedral. It felt very big and spacious inside.
These pictures are from Sacramonte, another neighborhood in Granada, this was settled, and is still inhabited for the most part, by Gypsies.
You can see the Alhambra from here in Sacramonte as well.
This is in the courtyard of the San Jeronimo Monastery. Monasteries are the most fun.
The park near our hostel.
Toward the end of our stay in Granada we finally realized that was very necessary to document the outrageous fashion in the city. It would have been better if we had started documenting sooner; there would be about 200 picures of people with DREADLOCK MULLETS, probably 50 of people with hair styles even more outrageous than that, and many of girls wearing boy clothes.
Here is the weading that we crashed at the Cathedral on our last night.
Oh yeah, I forgot about these pants. Thats right, even though this picture's blurry, those pants look in real life like they look in this picture.
Arrived in Valencia
There are a lot of impressive old churches in Valencia too
We don't know where these rocks came from
There are many hippies in Granada who specialize in impressive traits such as creating huge bubbles for children to chase. An admirable profession.
They like big plazzas. Who dosn't?
This building with a courtyard is where the Arabs had apartments for any travelers to their city who needed a place to sleep. Free of charge. When the Christians took over they just used it to store coal.
This and the next few pictures are from the Generalife. The Generalife is basically a great big beautiful garden with many water features and very pretty palaces. The Generalife was created by the Arabs, and was used by the leader as a retreat from the busy Alhambra. Both the Alhambra and the Generalife were built up and maintained by the Christians when they conquered Granada.
This is in the courtyard of one of the many palaces they walled city called the Alhambra. A Christian king (Charles the V, I think...) had this built.
From here we can see part of the wall surrounding the city, and the highest watch tower in the Alhambra. The Alhambra housed Sultans, soldiers, and wealthy and poor citizens. Near this tower are the barracks, where the soldiers were housed.
The tallest tower
A kid that we met. He was from Tennessee. He thought he was really cool because he was traveling across Europe by himself. But I thought he was just kind of annoying.
Doors. You will see a lot of pictures of doors.
The detail in the palaces in the Alhambra built by the Arabs is amazing.
And here Taylor is pointing to the Generalife from inside the Alhambra.
This is not in the Alhambra anymore. This is Fighting Kids Street.
This is the courtyard of a very old hospital that is still fully functional.
This is outside of the Carjuta Monastery in Granada. And, because in Spain, similar as in Italy, everything shuts down from about 1 pm to 4 pm, we had to wait outside here for over an hour. Sometimes it's difficult to plan around the siesta.
Inside the Monastery there was a lot of art focusing on the prosecution of Christian monks in England. We found it kind of amusing, and that is why we took pictures of it even though it was against the rules.
These pictures are from the Alcabayzin, an ancient neighborhood from the Arab times built into the hill above downtown Granada.
And this one is for Monson. We thought of you the second we saw this. It even looks like your handwriting!
That's the Alhambra over there that we can see from Alcabayzin.
Inside the big Cathedral. It felt very big and spacious inside.
These pictures are from Sacramonte, another neighborhood in Granada, this was settled, and is still inhabited for the most part, by Gypsies.
You can see the Alhambra from here in Sacramonte as well.
This is in the courtyard of the San Jeronimo Monastery. Monasteries are the most fun.
The park near our hostel.
Toward the end of our stay in Granada we finally realized that was very necessary to document the outrageous fashion in the city. It would have been better if we had started documenting sooner; there would be about 200 picures of people with DREADLOCK MULLETS, probably 50 of people with hair styles even more outrageous than that, and many of girls wearing boy clothes.
Here is the weading that we crashed at the Cathedral on our last night.
Oh yeah, I forgot about these pants. Thats right, even though this picture's blurry, those pants look in real life like they look in this picture.
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