rohan does the titles and he isnt here

we are now in san sebastian, very near the end. i thought i would try to blog some photos though as we are soooo behind.

last night we decided to try and visit as many pinxtos bars as we could manage as it is our last weekend offically on hols...needless to say we were sad and sorry shells of our former selves thismorning, but we dragged our sorry selves out of bed to find it was the most stunning day - it was cold (19 degrees) but so sunny and San Sebastian was glowing in it. i think i am burnt even!


i have noticed though that every second person in SS is under the age of two, or a dog. i was concerned that it was my biological clock going out of control but i checked with rohan and he agreed that yes, there was definitely a disproportionate amount of children around. phew. we spend most of the day watching waves. actually we have spent most of the last few weeks watching waves... no comment.


but from alicante....we drove through acres of disused polytunnels to Granada. well, not actually through them, but alongside.


We managed to arrive in Granada for the España Day long weekend - which meant that the Alhambra (what you go to see) was booked out. we could see the gardens but that was all...rohan was pretty dissapointed that we were going to spend an arvo looking at gardens, but he perked up when it turned out we could see a bit of the battlements and in the end it wasnt a bad way to spend an arvo.

bread at the España Day festivities...next to this was slabs of empanadas and next to them every type of cheesecake imaginable...heaven for some, dangerous for me.

Gorgeous Granada

This was taken from the ´Generalife´ the sultans summer gardens which i thought were stunning

Gardens of the Alhambra



roof of the hammam

dont know why but i dont mind this photo...hair obviously not a success story of the trip.

The Alhambra

We then went to Cordoba, which we really liked, but for some reason didnt take any photos of? highlight was the mosque that the christian crusaders tried to turn into a cathedral.

We watched a rugby semi-final there (Argentina/France i think)...well, i cringed my way through it....what a brutual game rugby union is... not sure how i am going to go being an east coast girl.

Next was Sevilla, which was all sunlight, jasmine, palm trees and orange groves.

The stunning España Plaza

part of the cathedral of Sevilla - it is the third largest in the world.

Sastisfied customers - those are olive pips left on the plate


Then it was onto Portugal. Driving into Portugal was a bit like coming home for us. Red dirt, stringybark gumtrees and wide open beaches with bugger all people on them. Rohan got a little trigger happy with the camera so i have just picked out a few shots of the beautiful beaches.

We went for a swim here one day...while we were swimming a lone bagspipeman (?) started playing on the cliff top...it made me quite homesick and wistful...but then a man got out of the surf completely naked! so that changed the mood somewhat.

another beautiful beach that we stopped at for lunch and a swim on our way to Lisbon. there was a version of this photo with me in it, but i just ruined it.

map of portugals once mighty empire, taken from great height.

me at great height with lisbon's golden gate in background.

streets of lisbon - beautiful tiled and crumbly pastel painted buildings

rohan and lisbon

i just liked this shot - we never found out what the story with the cathedral was

we were walking the streets seemingly randomly until we came to this little bar perched in the hills overlooking the bay with lots of cool looking people hanging out... we decided to have a beer and wait for the sun to set with them.

sun setting over lisbon