The Travels of Eric and Lorna

Here are some pictures of Alhambra. Words really can't do it justice, so I am just going to let the pictures speak for themselves. This is the facade of the Alcazaba, which is the actual fortress part of the complex.

The first day in Granada we walked around the Albacin district, which is the old Arabic quarter below Alhambra. Here is a wondow with some nice flowers. We stopped at this bar for a couple of drinks. The nice thing about Granada, and Andalucia in general, I think, is that they continue the tradation of giving you a free tapas with every drink. Pretty cool. There was a very cool spice store behind the cathedral. We had a great lunch, at which I had some delicious bull's tails. Yummy! Here is a general view of what the streets in Albacin look like. Bery atmospheric and cool. Today we saw Alhambra, which was amazing. I'll post pics of that when we get back from dinner.

This was, sadly, our last day in Barcelona. We slept in, checked out of the hotel at around noon, and then went to walk around the old quarter one last time. We ended up wandering down to the port. Those ships you see on the right were part of some big race. A random old quarter street. We also went through the Museum of Pre Columbian art. It was a small museum, but all of thier pieces were extraordinary. I got a few pictures before a guard (presumably) told me to stop taking pictures. Whoops. This is some kind of music hall. Overall we both loved Barcelona. I like it more than any city I have ever visited, save Rome. The extravagant amount of Roman ruins in that city gives it a slight edge over Barcelona for me, but only slight. It is an amazing city and I highly recommend everyone visit. We later gott a ride to the airport and flew to Granada. It was a little worrisome for a while, as when we left the airport in Granada at like 10pm there were no taxis waiting. Fortunatel...

While in the neighborhood of the Archaeology Museum, we had an excellent lunch at a place called La Gordita. We had the menu of the day, which included this awesome seafood soup. Yes, that is a lobster head in my soup. We then went back and toured Casa Mila, also known as La Pedrera (the quarry), a gaudi building about 7 blocks north of our hotel. It is a fairly large apartment building. Here is the exterior. And here is a close up of one of the awesome balconies. Some of the roof decoration. And a general view of the roof. It was a very cool building, and gave a good overview of the progression of Gaudi's work. You also goot to go through one of the apartments in the building. They were very cool, very open and airy.

Today we got up and hopped on the metro to go see Sagrada Familia, the famous cathedral by Gaudi. It is still under construction, as you can see by all the cranes. I'm sure everyone has seen a million pictures of this so I am only going to post the one. We didn't go inside. Afterwards we rode the metro to the other side of town to visit the Archaeology Museum of Catalonia ( M useu d' A rqueologia de C atalunya) . It was very cool, and they allowed pictures, which was a nice touch. Here are a few pictures fomr the collection. I took many more, but we are eager to go out and explore Granada, so I will post more later. After a great lunch (more on that later too) we went to see Casa Mila, a.k.a. La Pedrera, another famous Gaudi building. I will post more about these later today. For now it's time to go see Granada.

Sorry for not posting in a while. The internet went down on the last day in Barcelona. We just got into our room in Granada, and we are both exhausted. I'll catch everyone up on the last two days in Barcelona tomorrow.