Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Poll Results
Looks like I made a miraculous comeback in the original poll. The correct answer to the Pantheon is... Paris OR Rome, it was a trick question. I didn't know that there were 2 either before the trip! And yes, Morticia Adams was the choice for the last one, although I could have sworn she was a singer ;) Or was that Whitney?! Hey, at least I didn;t think she was Angela Lansbury (cough, cough, wink, wink:)
Home
OK all, we are both back home in CO and this is the last post. Cinque Terre, a national park, was amazing and probably the most beautiful place I've seen in my life. I stayed in the first town, also the smallest, Riomaggiore. I met up with some cool Aussies and did the 5 hour hike between the 5 towns in the park along the coast (see pix!), had some fun nights out, and had amazing food. One night I order spaghetti with lobster and they gace me an entire platter of pasta with a whole lobster placed on top. delicious! So, all the pics should be up now, except for a few last ones on Andrea's camera. The trip was incredible, it's strange to be back home (still a week plus until I start back up work) and thanks for checkin out the blog!
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Still Alive!
hey all... so the report since Màlaga (the short and sweet version since internet is 5.00 euros an hour here!) we went to granad and saw the alhambra which was gorgeous and had a pool, then went by train to valencia and had awesome paella and layed on the beach, then spent a few days in barcelona and had good food, sangrìa, stared at some amazing Gaudi architecture, found a great tapas bar and went to a Dali museum, and then went to rome for 3 days. We saw as much as humanly possible in Rome for three days before Andrea had to fly back to the U.S. I went to Pisa after that to see the tower, stayed in a crazy B&B in the middle of nowhere Tuscany (which is as beautiful as Id imagined! in a place called Ripparagio, I think!) and I just arrived in the first town of Cinque Terre- Riomaggiore. It is so beautiful and im about to go on a run between the towns! Google Cinque Terre for pics! I,ll put more up soon, although I may have to wait till i get back. I enjoyed spending money a little too much and am heading back to CO the 21st now! a few more days to enjoy it! Ciao
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
el 4 de julio en Málaga...
In celebration of the 4th, we decided to go out and have a red, white and blue drink in a few bars and have a cigar. The cigar ended up becoming a photo prop- neither of us could stand it for long- but the drinks were good. We were going to do shots, but that quickly turned into drinks, and we also had to do a re-do of our red shot because we forgot to take pics! The bar tenders "loved" it too... I would go up to one and just ask them to make us a red or a blue drink, whatever they wanted to put in it. They turned out interesting. It ended with me explaining to the last one how to make a "white russian." Guess he thought I was speaking literally, and he laughed out loud when I explained what the mix was. Good times...
Since Lisbon...
OK, I know it´s been a while (thanks Justin!) but we are backpacking through Europe after all... ha
Since leaving Lisbon we spen 4 days in Sevilla, 2 days in Málaga, 2 days in Granada and now are in Valencia. It´s been a whirwind, but fun. I´m downloading a few hundred new pics as I write, so check Snapfish!
The highlights of Sevilla were climbing the Giralda bell tower in the Cathedral ( where Columbus was granted funds to sail to the new world), seeing Columbus´supposed grave inside the church, doing a sangría botellón before watching a Flamenco show and watching a bullfight on Thursday, which was crazy. Check out the pics. One matador got RUN OVER trying to get cute. There are videos which I will try to get on too.
After Sevilla we took the bus a few hours to Málaga- birthplace of Picasso and Antonio Banderas- worked on our tans, swam in the Medeterranean (much nicer than the water in Lisbon) had some drinks on the beach, saw the Picasso museum and ate some good food. It was definitely HUMID! And I realized that I was by far the "white"est white guy on the beach... Andrea was doin ok, but I was a second sun out there. Gettin better though. Made friends with a few of the beach bar tenders too who hooked us up the last night there with some drinks for the beach, even after they closed. The only bad part was that we averaged 4 hours of sleep a night because the hostal was right in the middle of the town. The drunk people (the ones besides us haha) made noise until the poor working saps started the morning commute!
From there we hopped over to Granada, which had some amazingly hilly runs (Boulder meets the northwest) and stayed at a hostel across the entrance from the Alhambra. Granada was the last Moorish bastion in Spain during the Reconquest and the home of Al Andalus´ greatest palace- the Alhambra. It was their version of heaven on earth and it is amazing. The photos cant do it justice! The gardens were incredible. We also had our best find of the trip there on a run... an amazing Cemetary at a mountain top that proved eerie and awe-inspiring at the same time. As we ran through it, we felt like we were on the scene of a day of the dead celebration. Never seen anything like it! It felt like something out of a movie.
And now we are in a hostal in Valencia that would seem it´s only purpose is a place for people from all over the world to sit together in the hostal bar and swap room keys! ha. Not exactly the type of place we´ve been stayin. But we are heading to the beach today after this internet session, gonna lay on the amazing beaches here, and then be off for barcelona tomorrow!! Then next stop, italy!
Hasta ahora!
B&A
Since leaving Lisbon we spen 4 days in Sevilla, 2 days in Málaga, 2 days in Granada and now are in Valencia. It´s been a whirwind, but fun. I´m downloading a few hundred new pics as I write, so check Snapfish!
The highlights of Sevilla were climbing the Giralda bell tower in the Cathedral ( where Columbus was granted funds to sail to the new world), seeing Columbus´supposed grave inside the church, doing a sangría botellón before watching a Flamenco show and watching a bullfight on Thursday, which was crazy. Check out the pics. One matador got RUN OVER trying to get cute. There are videos which I will try to get on too.
After Sevilla we took the bus a few hours to Málaga- birthplace of Picasso and Antonio Banderas- worked on our tans, swam in the Medeterranean (much nicer than the water in Lisbon) had some drinks on the beach, saw the Picasso museum and ate some good food. It was definitely HUMID! And I realized that I was by far the "white"est white guy on the beach... Andrea was doin ok, but I was a second sun out there. Gettin better though. Made friends with a few of the beach bar tenders too who hooked us up the last night there with some drinks for the beach, even after they closed. The only bad part was that we averaged 4 hours of sleep a night because the hostal was right in the middle of the town. The drunk people (the ones besides us haha) made noise until the poor working saps started the morning commute!
From there we hopped over to Granada, which had some amazingly hilly runs (Boulder meets the northwest) and stayed at a hostel across the entrance from the Alhambra. Granada was the last Moorish bastion in Spain during the Reconquest and the home of Al Andalus´ greatest palace- the Alhambra. It was their version of heaven on earth and it is amazing. The photos cant do it justice! The gardens were incredible. We also had our best find of the trip there on a run... an amazing Cemetary at a mountain top that proved eerie and awe-inspiring at the same time. As we ran through it, we felt like we were on the scene of a day of the dead celebration. Never seen anything like it! It felt like something out of a movie.
And now we are in a hostal in Valencia that would seem it´s only purpose is a place for people from all over the world to sit together in the hostal bar and swap room keys! ha. Not exactly the type of place we´ve been stayin. But we are heading to the beach today after this internet session, gonna lay on the amazing beaches here, and then be off for barcelona tomorrow!! Then next stop, italy!
Hasta ahora!
B&A
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